''Something happens to retired chiefs of the Israeli internal Security
Service, Shin Bet. Once they leave their jobs, they become spokesmen for
peace. How come? Shin Bet agents are the only members of the
establishment who come into real, direct, daily contact with
Palestinians. They interrogate Palestinian suspects, torture them, try
to turn them into informers. They collect information, penetrate the
most remote parts of Palestinian society. They know more about the
Palestinians than anybody else in Israel (and perhaps in Palestine,
too).
The intelligent among them (intelligence officers can be intelligent)
also come to conclusions that evade many politicians: that there is a
Palestinian nation, that this nation will not disappear, that the
Palestinians want a state of their own, that the only solution to the
conflict is a Palestinian state next to Israel. And so, on leaving the
service, Shin Bet chiefs become outspoken advocates of the two-state
solution..''
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