"I have no trust in the current Israeli leadership," Diskin told a public gathering recently, warning that "one of the results of an Israeli attack on Iran could be a dramatic acceleration of the Iranian program".
He issued a proclamation prohibiting public assembly and warning that such gatherings would be dispersed by force.
For instance, Alabama prohibits bringing a firearm to a public demonstration, and Maryland has a law prohibiting guns at demonstrations and similar public gatherings, after a warning.
This calls for better information-gathering and early warning systems, as well as investment in more sustainable models of food production, and wider use of improved technologies and practices.
Potential military missions include search and rescue, antisubmarine warfare, electronic intelligence gathering and airborne early warning.
They did this wordlessly and without warning, simply gathering together and pushing us, en masse, onto the nearest sidewalk, dividing the protest in two.
They are gathering on the sidelines, warning that the valley and its stalwart investors have forgotten the lessons of the dot-com bust and appear too willing to bid on Google far beyond what its financial position justifies.
With only a fortnight to go before he stands up in parliament to repeat his warning of gathering storm clouds and the even more fear-inducing cocktail of threats from a worsening global economy, he is morphing, if only in this respect, into Gordon Brown, who always had a keen eye for a stealth tax.
Nevertheless, the remarks may ring alarm bells that a banking exodus is gathering pace, following a warning from the City regulator that banks were approaching the point where they must move staff out of London to continue operating smoothly after Brexit.
The gathering is yet another warning to the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf) that if there is not seen to be a proper transition to democracy then Egypt could be in for a second revolution.
