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Former Mossad Director Tamir Pardo said Israel’s greatest threat is not Iran’s nuclear program but the lack of clearly defined borders for the country.
Speaking to Israel’s Channel 12, Pardo said one of Israel’s fundamental problems is the issue of borders.
“Iran’s nuclear program is not the number one threat to Israel. The greatest threat is that Israel’s borders have not been determined,” Pardo said.
Pardo said Israel is the only state in the world whose borders are not clearly defined.
“The greatest threat is the absence of borders. Israel is the only state in the world that has no borders for its territory,” he said.
“The absence of borders for the territory means that nothing else has borders either,” he added.
Pardo said the border issue should be resolved through a comprehensive referendum.
He also called on Israel to put forward a long-term strategic vision extending to 2048.
The remarks came as Pardo gave a wide-ranging interview against the backdrop of a memorandum of understanding signed between Iran and the U.S.
According to the Channel 12 introduction, Pardo previously managed the covert campaign against Tehran, rose through Mossad to lead the agency, fought alongside Yoni Netanyahu in Entebbe and discovered that the prime minister had requested secret surveillance of him.
The introduction said Pardo was speaking about what it called a strategic failure, the “intoxication of power” of the political leadership and the real danger facing the Zionist project.
“We are the only country in the world without a border, and this leads to disaster,” Pardo was quoted as saying.
Pardo also addressed tensions with Iran, saying Israel had failed to gain a concrete benefit from the process.
He described Israeli military operations against Iran in recent months as a “wrong step.”
Pardo said the attacks could push Iran to accelerate efforts to obtain nuclear weapons.
“Iranians today may conclude that only having nuclear weapons can prevent similar attacks in the future,” he said.
Israel was established in 1948 on lands occupied by Zionist armed groups, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly displaced through massacres.
The Tel Aviv administration later occupied the remaining Palestinian territories and rejects the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
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