Israel Intelligence News Digest

international | anti-war / imperialism | other press Wednesday June 02, 2010 13:18 by Citizen X

Israel abducts 9 Americans and Ex-US Ambassador... Australian Citizen shot dead, Mossad agent recently expelled... Could Turkey invoke NATO?... Ex-Mossad agent - raid ’so stupid it’s stupefying’ ... recalls Israeli 'Exodus' ship 1947... Vatican condemns occupation as unjust...

http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/02-329/
News you may have missed #364 (Gaza flotilla edition I)
June 1, 2010

Israel abducts nine American citizens on Gaza flotilla... It is said that among them is former US Ambassador Edward Peck.
US blocks Security Council criticism of Israeli raid.
Australian citizen shot in Israeli raid... Australia recently expelled the Israeli Mossad representative in Canberra, after confirming that the Israeli spy agency had illegally forged at least four Australian passports.

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http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/03-160/
News you may have missed #365 (Gaza flotilla edition II)
June 1, 2010
Palestinian Authority to send delegation to Gaza.
Egypt lifts its side of Gaza blockade for aid... The key word is “temporarily”.
Palestinian Authority to continue talks with Israel.

http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/01-477/
Could Turkey invoke NATO clause over Israeli attack on flotilla? [updated]
June 1, 2010

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http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0601/exmossad-agent-gaza-fl...ying/

Ex-Mossad agent: Gaza flotilla raid ’so stupid it’s stupefying’

By Stephen C. Webster
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
The former Mossad agent is Victor Ostrovsky, who enlisted in the Israeli Defense Force at age 18 and has since written two books highly critical of Israel's war-fighting apparatus. His first book, "By Way of Deception," illustrates the brutal and often confusing nature of the Israeli spy service's covert operations, casting the agency as a villain that engages in the drug trade to further their ambitions over the good of Israel. His other book, "The Other Side of Deception," speculates as to Mossad's greater agenda. The book is available online in its entirety.

If one were to ask him, he'd say that Israel's raid on the Gaza aid flotilla was "so stupid it's stupefying" -- exactly the words he used speaking with Washington Post "Spy Talk" columnist Jeff Stein.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/27175886/Other-Side-of-Decept...ovsky

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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/06/former_....html

washingtonpost.com
SpyTalk
Jeff Stein

Former Mossad agent ridicules Gaza ship raid

The Israeli commando attack on a civilian flotilla was “so stupid it is stupefying,” says former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky.

Ostrovsky spent six years in the Israeli navy, rising to the rank of lieutenant commander before Mossad recruited him in 1982. He quit after four years and in the 1990s he wrote two highly critical, first-person books about the intelligence service.

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“The mistakes were on every level,” said Ostrovsky, “from the order to forcefully board outside the territorial waters to the actual attack.”

Responsibility for the raid, which has provoked widespread condemnation and a diplomatic uproar, should be laid at the feet of “the shoot-from-the-hip prime minister,” Ostrovsky said -- Binyamin Netanyahu, whom he blamed for two previous messy intelligence operations in Dubai and Jordan.

Flotilla 13’s typically careful planning, he speculated, was supplanted by orders from Netanyahu or his ultra-conservative foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, to “do something now.”

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In any event, the episode has become a public relations debacle for Israel, Ostrovsky said.

“We look like the British stopping the Exodus,” he said.

The 1960 blockbuster movie, based on a best-seller by the same name, dramatized the efforts of 611 Jewish refugees to defy a British blockade of occupied Palestine after World War II.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053804/

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http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0601/leaked-vatican-documen...just/
Leaked Vatican document: Israeli occupation ‘unjust’
Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
A Vatican document leaked on Tuesday calls the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories a "political injustice", Italy's ANSA news agency reported.