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Jun 10, 2011

FORWARD: Allegations of Fake Holocaust Claims Just Keep Growing

 

Allegations of Fake Holocaust Claims Just Keep Growing

By Paul Berger

Published June 08, 2011, issue of June 17, 2011.
    Excerpt:

New arrests, fresh guilty pleas and a growing number of witnesses co-operating with the FBI have bolstered an investigation into a multimillion dollar fraud at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Many in the Russian-speaking community were stunned when 17 of their members — six Claims Conference employees in a New York processing office and 11 accomplices — were arrested last November on charges relating to a fraud that siphoned an estimated $42.5 million from Holocaust funds. At the time, five of the accused pleaded guilty.



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Jewish Conspiracy Theory, the Eichmann Testimony and the Holocaust: Deborah Lipstadt’s Contribution to Holocaust Revisionism Paul Grubach Copyright 2011

 


http://www.inconvenienthistory.com/archive/2011/volume_3/number_2/jewish_conspiracy_theory.php
 

Jewish Conspiracy Theory, the Eichmann Testimony and the Holocaust: Deborah Lipstadt's Contribution to Holocaust Revisionism

Paul Grubach

Copyright 2011

Excerpt:

(Note: Page numbers in parentheses cited in the following essay refer to The Eichmann Trial, by Deborah E. Lipstadt, Schocken Books, New York, 2011.)
In the interests of fairness and truth, this review was sent to Deborah Lipstadt and Christopher Browning prior to its publication here. They were asked to correct any statements that they believe to be false or misleading. No response from either has been received by press time.
Introduction
Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) and widely known for her assaults on "Holocaust denial," has once again made headlines with the release of The Eichmann Trial. This interesting but flawed book is Lipstadt's analysis of the issues surrounding the famous capture and trial in Israel of SS Lieutenant-Colonel Adolf Eichmann, and the dramatic effect that "Holocaust Survivor" courtroom testimony had upon world-wide opinion. April 11, 2011 marked a half century since the beginning of "this trial of the century," and the book's release was presumably timed to commemorate it. It has been said that The Eichmann Trial consolidates Deborah Lipstadt's standing as one of the major figures in the present-day Jewish world.

Lipstadt is considered by many to be an important Holocaust scholar; she served as a consultant to the team planning the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (p.ix), and authored three books dealing with the Jewish experience during the Second World War. Since the early 1990s, this pro-Zionist academic who delights in her Jewish identity (p. 186) has been recognized as the most prominent opponent of "Holocaust denial," a pejorative term meant to demonize Holocaust revisionism, the historical movement contending there was no Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews during the Second World War, the "Nazi gas chambers" never existed, and the claim of six million murdered Jews is a gross exaggeration. For a Holocaust revisionist critique of Deborah Lipstadt and her views, I refer the reader to my essay.1


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Assault on the Liberty

 

 
News from around the globe that
the newspapers seldom print 

A false flag operation which failed in its objective. Who were the villains in the USA who were the plotters behind this attack which was to be the excuse for an assault on another country? - Not hard to guess!
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KILLERS STILL NOT CALLED TO ACCOUNT

Assault on the Liberty
 
 
 THE USS LIBERTY — She once was a beautiful ship
 
June 8, 1967. On this day which lives on in infamy, a lightly armed,
clearly marked communications vessel sailing peacefully in the eastern
Mediterranean, was suddenly attacked without warning by Israeli jets
and torpedo boats, leaving 34 U.S. servicemen dead and another
171 wounded and maimed for life. The ship was the USS Liberty.
Its mission was to monitor the fighting going on between Israel and
its Arab neighbors, which were then at war. Details of this vicious,
cold-blooded atrocity by America's favorite rogue state are recounted
by James Bamford in his no-holds-barred examination of the National
Security Agency, Body of Secrets. Below are several excerpts from
this devastating exposé.
Without warning the Israeli jets struck—swept-wing Dassault Mirage IIICs.
Lieutenant Painter observed that the aircraft had "absolutely no markings," so that
their identity was unclear. He then attempted to contact the men manning the gun
mounts, but it was too late. "I was trying to contact these two kids," he recalled,
"and I saw them both; well, I didn't exactly see them as such. They were blown
apart, but I saw the whole area go up in smoke and scattered metal. And, at about
the same time, the aircraft strafed the bridge area itself. The quartermaster,
Petty Officer Third Class Pollard, was standing right next to me, and he was hit."
With the sun at their backs in true attack mode, the Mirages raked the ship from
bow to stern with hot, armor-piercing lead. Back and forth they came, cannons
and machine guns blazing. A bomb exploded near the whaleboat aft of the bridge,
and those in the pilothouse and the bridge were thrown from their feet."

'We are under attack'
In the communications spaces, radioman James Halman and Joseph Ward had
patched together enough equipment and broken antennas to get a distress call off
to the Sixth Fleet, despite intense jamming by the Israelis. "Any station, this is
Rockstar," Halman shouted, using the Liberty's voice call sign. "We are under
attack by unidentified jet aircraft and require immediate assistance."
"Great, wonderful, she's burning, she's burning," said the Israeli pilot.
After taking out the gun mounts, the Israeli fighter pilots turned their attention to the
antennas, to sever the Liberty's vocal cords and deafen it so it could not call for help
or pick up any more revealing intercepts. "It was as though they knew their exact
locations," said Senior Chief Stan White. Lieutenant Commander Dave Lewis, in
charge of the NSA operation on the ship, agreed . . . "It took a lot of planning to get
heat-seeking missiles aboard to take out our entire communications in the first minute
of the attack. If that was a mistake, it was the best-planned mistake that has ever
been perpetrated in the history of mankind."
Then the planes attacked the bridge in order to blind her, killing instantly the ship's
executive officer. With the Liberty now deaf, blind and silenced, unable to call for help
and unable to move, the Israeli pilots next proceeded to kill her. Designed to punch
holes in the toughest tanks, the Israeli shells tore through the Liberty's steel plating like
hot nails through butter, exploding into jagged bits of shrapnel and butchering men deep
in their living quarters.

Refined cockpit conversation
"Menachem, is he screwing her?" [Israeli] headquarters asked one of the pilots, excitedly.
As the Israelis continued their slaughter, neither they nor the Liberty crew had any idea
that witnesses were present hight above. Until now. According to information, interviews
and documents obtained for Body of Secrets, for nearly thirty-five years NSA has hidden
the fact that one of its planes was overhead at the time of the incident, eavesdropping on
what was going on below. The intercepts from that plane, which answer some of the
key questions about the attack, are among NSA's deepest secrets.
At 2:24, minutes after the air attack, horror once again washed over the crew. Charles
Rowley, the ship's photographer, was lying in the ward room being treated for shrapnel
wounds when armor-piercing bullets began penetrating the bulkhead. Through the porthole
he saw three sixty-two-ton motor torpedo boats rapidly approaching in attack formation.
Closing in at about forty knots, each of the French-built boats had a crew of fifteen and
were heavily armed with a 40mm cannon, four 20mm cannons and two torpedoes. Like
a firing squad, they lined up in a row and pointed their guns and torpedo tubes at the
Liberty's starboard hull. Seeing that the Israeli fighters had destroyed the American flag,
Commander McGonagle ordered the signalman to quickly hoist another—this one the
giant "holiday ensign," the largest on the ship.
Almost immediately, the boats opened up with a barrage of cannon fire. One armor-piercing
bullet slammed through the ship's chart house and into the pilothouse, coming to rest finally
in the neck of a young helmsman, killing him instantly. Three other crewmen were slaughtered
in this latest shower of steel.

Israelis ready for the kill
"Stand by for torpedo attack, starboard side," McGonagle shouted frantically into the
announcing system. The Israelis were ready for the kill. At 2:37 p.m., the safety plug was
pulled from a 19-inch German-made torpedo on Motor Torpedo Boat 203. Seconds later
it sped from its launcher and took direct aim at the Liberty's NSA spaces. Four other
torpedoes—more than enough to sink the largest aircraft carrier—were also launched. Had
all or most of them hit their mark, the Liberty's remaining life would have been measured
in minutes. Through a miracle, only one struck home. But that hit was devastating.
To prevent anyone from escaping the badly wounded ship, the Israelis even destroyed
the few surviving life rafts that were put into the water following the call to abandon ship.
"I watched with horror as the floating life rafts were riddled with holes," said Lieutenant
Lloyd painter, in charge of the evacuation. "No survivors were planned for this day!"
Earlier that day, the Israelis had massacred civilians and prisoners in the [northern Sinai]
desert; now they were prepared to ensure that no American survived the sinking of the
Liberty. Another witness to the lifeboat attacks was pipefitter Phillip F. Tourney. "As soon
as the lifeboats hit the water they were sunk. They would shoot at us for target practice . . .
They wanted to kill and maim and murder anyone they could."
President would not 'embarrass' his Israeli allies

Black smoke was still escaping through the more than 800 holes in the Liberty's hull, and
the effort to hush up the incident had already begun. Within hours of the attack, Israel
asked President Johnson to quietly bury the incident. "Embassy Tel Aviv," said a highly
secret, very-limited-distribution message to the State Department, "urged de-emphasis
on publicity since proximity of vessel to scene of conflict was fuel for Arab suspicions that
U.S. was aiding Israel." Shortly thereafter, a total news ban was ordered by the Pentagon.
No one in the field was allowed to say anything about the attack. All information was to
come only from a few senior Washington offcials.

At 11:29 a.m. (5:29 p.m. Liberty), [President] Johnson took the unusual step of ordering
the JCS to recall the [American fighters being sent to the aid of the stricken vessel] while
the Liberty still lay smoldering, sinking, fearful of another attack, without aid, and with its
decks covered with the dead, the dying and the wounded. Onboard the flagship of the
Sixth Fleet, Rear Admiral Lawrence R. Geis, who commanded the carrier force in the
Mediterranean, was angry and puzzled at the recall and protested it to Secretary of
Defense Robert S. McNamara.
Admiral Geis was shocked by what he heard next. According to information obtained
for Body of Secrets, "President Lyndon Johnson came on with a comment that he didn't
care if the ship sunk, he would not embarrass his [Israeli] allies."

Survivors threatened with courts-martial and imprisonment
The hole in the Liberty's twenty-three-year-old skin was nearly wide enough to drive a bus
through; the ship had a heavy list to starboard . . . thirty-two of its crew were dead (two
others would later die) and two-thirds of the rest wounded; its executive officer was dead,
and its commander officer was badly hurt. Despite all this, the Liberty was heroically
brought back to life and slowly made her way toward safer waters.
Once the Liberty pulled into Malta on June 14, the effort to bury the incident continued
at full speed ahead. A total news blackout was imposed. Crew members were threatened
with courts-martial and jail time if they ever breathed a word of the episode to anyone—
including family members and even fellow crew members. "If you ever repeat this to anyone
else ever again, you will be put in prison and forgotten about," Larry Weaver said he
was warned.

RELATED COMMENTARY:

Navy Vet Honored, Foiled Israeli Attack
By RAY McGOVERN, Counterpunch
http://www.counterpunch.com/mcgovern06022009.html

Israel has never been punished for their crime
against the crew of the USS Liberty
By DAVE GIBSON, Norfolk Crime Examiner

http://www.examiner.com/x-5919-Norfolk-Crime-Examiner~y2009m6d1-Israel-has-never-been-punished-for-their-crime-against-the-crew-of-the-USS-Liberty

"Tob shebbe goyim harog." ("Kill the best of the Gentiles.")
—THE TALMUD, Sanhedrin 59

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For a complete account of the Israeli attack on the USS Libertyas well as such nefarious
projects as Operation Northwoods, a scheme by the government to terrorize its own citizens
in pursuit of its sinister aimssee Body of Secrets, the 721-page blockbuster exposé of the
super-secret National Security Agency by renowned author and investigator James Bamford.
Available in hardcover postage paid for $34 from:
NS Publications, Box 188, Ottawa Lake MI 49267
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Copies of the "Remember the Liberty?" the devastating, two-sided
leaflet exposing the vicious Israeli atrocity against Americans, can be
obtained for mass circulation through NS Publications, PO Box 270486,
Milwaukee WI 53227* at the following special rates postage paid:
500 for $40; 100 for $10; or 25 for $3.

*Unless otherwise advertised, all book, CD/DVD and poster orders
should go to:
NS Publications, PO Box 188, Wyandotte MI 48195.
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REMEMBER THE LIBERTY !
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The Strange Case of John Demjanjuk

 



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The Strange Case of John Demjanjuk

 

By Richard A. Widmann


On May 13th news headlines around the world announced the conviction of John Demjanjuk for having been a guard at the infamous Sobibor concentration camp. Demjanjuk it would seem was found guilty as an accessory to the murder of some 28,060 people. Oddly however if one reads beyond the headlines it is revealed that there was no evidence that Demjanjuk committed any specific crime. The conviction was based on the legally declared "fact" that if he was at the camp, he had to have been a participant in the killing.

But if convicting a man without evidence isn't strange enough, Judge Ralph Alt ordered Demjanjuk sentenced to 5 years in prison but released him from custody, noting that he had already served two years during the trial and had served 8 years in Israel on related charges which were later overturned. Was this verdict truly about carrying out justice for crimes committed 65 years prior or was it simply the wisdom of a judge who could placate all sides by setting a 91-year-old man free but still pronouncing him guilty?

To better understand the recent events we need to turn back the pages of this story nearly 70 years. During World War Two, Demjanjuk fought in the Red Army against the Nazis but ....

 

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At least 125 investigations of Israeli espionage stopped due to political pressure from above: WHEN will Americans wake up?

 

'US military aid to Israel—specifically how Israeli agents purloin secret defense systems—is an issue that must be examined. American military subsidies allow Israel to acquire tanks, helicopter gunships, machine guns, and bullets that are used against Palestinian civilians. In addition, in a unique arrangement accorded to no other country on earth, a significant portion of this US tax money is used by Israel to purchase equipment from Israeli firms, which compete with American companies, costing the American economy still more money and jobs. What Israel doesn't "buy" (using US taxpayer money), it obtains by stealth. A Pentagon administrative judge once denied a security clearance to an Israeli national with the observation:

'"The Israeli government is actively engaged in military and industrial espionage in the United States. An Israeli citizen working in the US who has access to proprietary information is likely to be a target of such espionage."

'Our Executive Director, Phil Giraldi—a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer—just wrote an overview of what Israel's spies pilfer and how they get away with stealing US military and industrial secrets.'

 

Alison Weir, President, Council for the National Interest

 

Emphasis added – ST

 

http://www.cnionline.org/paying-off-israel%e2%80%99s-military-bills/#more-2127

 

Paying Off Israel's Military Bills

June 8, 2011

Presentation by Phil Giraldi at the Council for National Interest Press Briefing, "Questioning Military Aid to Israel"

"The Israeli government is actively engaged in military and industrial espionage in the United States." That was the conclusion of a Pentagon administrative judge in 2006. One very good reason why Israel should not receive billions of dollars in military assistance annually is its espionage against the United States. Israel, a Socialist country where government and business work hand in hand, has obtained significant advantage by systematically stealing American technology with both military and civilian applications. US-developed technology is then reverse engineered and used by the Israelis to support their own exports with considerably reduced research and development costs, giving them a huge advantage against foreign competitors. Sometimes, when the technology is military in nature and winds up in the hands of a US adversary, the consequences can be serious. Israel has sold advanced weapons systems to China that incorporated technology developed by American companies—including the Python-3 air-to-air missile and the Delilah cruise missile. There is evidence that Tel Aviv has also stolen Patriot missile avionics to incorporate into its own Arrow system and that it used US technology obtained in its Lavi fighter development program—which was funded by the US taxpayer to the tune of $1.5 billion—to help the Bejing government develop their own J-10 fighter.

The reality of Israeli spying is indisputable. Israel always features prominently in the annual FBI report called "Foreign Economic Collection and Industrial Espionage." The 2005 report, for example, states:

"Israel has an active program to gather proprietary information within the United States. These collection activities are primarily directed at obtaining information on military systems and advanced computing applications that can be used in Israel's sizable armaments industry."

It adds that Israel recruits spies, uses electronic methods, and carries out computer intrusion to gain the information. The 2005 report concluded that the thefts eroded US military advantage, enabling foreign powers to obtain expensive technologies that had taken years to develop.

A 1996 Defense Investigative Service report noted that Israel has great success stealing technology by exploiting the numerous co-production projects that it has with the Pentagon. "Placing Israeli nationals in key industries … is a technique utilized with great success." A General Accounting Office (GAO) examination of espionage directed against American defense and security industries, also undertaken in 1996, described how Israeli citizens residing in the US had stolen sensitive technology to manufacture artillery gun tubes, obtained classified plans for a reconnaissance system, and passed sensitive aerospace designs to unauthorized users. An Israeli company was caught monitoring a Department of Defense telecommunications system to obtain classified information, while other Israeli entities targeted avionics, missile telemetry, aircraft communications, software systems, and advanced materials and coatings used in missile re-entry. The GAO concluded that Israel "conducts the most aggressive espionage operation against the United States of any US ally."

In June 2006, a Pentagon administrative judge overruled an appeal by an Israeli who had been denied a security clearance, stating, "The Israeli government is actively engaged in military and industrial espionage in the United States. An Israeli citizen working in the US who has access to proprietary information is likely to be a target of such espionage." More recently, FBI counter intelligence officer John Cole has reported how many cases of Israeli espionage are dropped under orders from the Justice Department. He provides a "conservative estimate" of 125 worthwhile investigations into Israeli espionage involving both American citizens and Israelis that were stopped due to political pressure from above.

Two stories that have been reported in the Israeli media but are strangely absent from the news on this side of the Atlantic demonstrate exactly what is going on and what is at stake. The first report confirms Tel Aviv's efforts to obtain US technology are ongoing. Stewart David Nozette, a US government scientist who was arrested in an October 2009 FBI sting operation after offering to spy for Israel, has been waiting in jail to go to trial on espionage charges. New documents in the case were presented in the Federal court in Washington last year. The documents confirm that Nozette was a paid consultant for Israeli Aerospace Industries and it is believed that he passed to them classified material in return for an estimated $225,000 in "consulting" fees. Examination of his computer by the FBI revealed that he was planning a "penetration of NASA" the US space agency and that he was also trying to crack into other scientists' computers to obtain additional classified material. Other documents demonstrate that he was cooperating with two Israeli scientists who were administrators with Israeli Aerospace Industries, Yossi Weiss and Yossi Fishman. Nozette made several trips to Israel without reporting them, which he was required to do because of his high security clearance. The FBI reportedly also has incriminating letters and other documents that were obtained from his computer.

The second story relates to the pending sale of twenty F-35 fighter planes to Israel. The F-35 is one of the most advanced fighter planes in the world. The $130 million planes would be purchased with US military assistance money, which means they would effectively be a gift from the US taxpayer. But Israel is balking at the sale reportedly because it wants to install some of its own local content in the aircraft. The Pentagon has already made some concessions but is disinclined to grant approval for all the changes because to do so would require giving the Israelis full access to the plane's advanced avionics and computer systems. Israel also wants to independently maintain the aircraft, which would also require access to all systems. It would be nice to think that the Pentagon wants to keep the maintenance in American hands to preserve jobs during these tough economic times, but the Defense Department has never cared about US workers before when the issue is Israel. The real reason for the standoff is that Lockheed-Martin and the Pentagon both know that Israel will steal whatever it can if it gains access. It would then use the technology to market its own products at a price below that of US defense contractors. The result would be a triple whammy for Uncle Sam: the expensive planes are given to Israel free, the technology is then stolen, and future sales vanish as our Israeli friends market their knock down versions of weapons systems reliant on the stolen technology.

I agree with Congressman Ron Paul when he says "We cannot afford to have 'business as usual' when we are bankrupt." The US-Israel military aid entanglement—what we give, sell, and especially what is stolen—is unaffordable and unjustifiable.

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http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis/de-Borchgrave/2011/06/06/Commentary-Bibi-Et-Tu-Brutus/UPI-5191307361251/

Commentary: Bibi: Et Tu Brutus?

By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE
UPI Editor at Large
WASHINGTON, June 6 (UPI) -- When a joint session of the U.S. Congress gave Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu 29 standing ovations -- four more than U.S. President Barack Obama received for his last State of the Union message -- there was little doubt that Israel is an integral part of the American body politic. It was a hard-line speech by an Israeli on the right of the Israeli spectrum that firmly rejected Obama's proposal for Middle East peace: The pre-1967 war frontier with minor land swaps for both sides.

It was also a demonstration of why the United States cannot continue to pose as a "valid interlocutor" between Israelis and Palestinians. And why former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, D-Maine, quit as Obama's peace negotiator after two years of long-distance commuting between the Mideast and the United States.

Former six-term U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., but more recently a Green Party candidate, told Iran's "Press TV" she was required to sign, "as were all members of Congress, pledges of support for the military superiority of Israel and for Jerusalem as the capital of Israel." She also claimed her final term in Congress came to an end after the American Israel Public Affairs Committee "funneled money into the campaign of her Democratic Party primary opponent, Hank Johnson.

McKinney's interview to Press TV came on the eve of the annual AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington May 22. It was widely published over the Arab world.

AIPAC, with 100,000 members, is arguably the most powerful lobby in Washington and doesn't have to register as a foreign agent.

The joke on Capitol Hill is that Israel doesn't have to lobby because it's the 51st state. Which Arab governments assume anyway.

With the new merger of the Palestinian authority and Hamas, dedicated to the destruction of Israel, along with civil wars in Libya, Syria and Yemen, as well as the growing influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the "Arab Spring" didn't even last till summer. Reasons enough for Netanyahu to conclude Israel has at least two more years to continue consolidating Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Complacency didn't last long. The Syrian dictatorship, after killing more than 1,000 of its own people in countrywide anti-regime, pro-democracy demonstrations, organized Palestinian refugees to mark the 44th anniversary of the Arab defeat in the Six Day War defeat by "peacefully" penetrating Israeli defenses on the Golan Heights. Several hundred showed up and ignored Israeli warnings to back off.

Israeli gunfire killed 22, wounded 350. This was clearly a Syrian attempt to detract world attention from its 8-week-long, bloody repression of anti-regime demonstrations. Foreign reporters were kept out but Twitter messages and cellphone news coverage kept the story center stage.

In the West Bank, Palestinians marked the 1967 war's Nakba Day ("catastrophic setback") by demonstrating up and down the separation wall; dozens were injured.

And Netanyahu faced an ugly low upon his return from a U.S. high.

The man who ran Israel's formidable Mossad for eight years is criticizing Netanyahu for ignoring the 2002 Saudi Arabia peace plan -- to which all 22 Arab governments subscribed. Israel was to withdraw to the pre-1967 war frontier with minor rectifications on either side. And all Arab governments agreed that in return they would recognize Israel diplomatically and commercially.

This, essentially, was the plan that Obama dusted off and Netanyahu shelved.

But ex-Mossad chief Meir Dagan is a dagger in Netanyahu's body politic. And Dagan isn't alone. Several former intelligence chiefs are lined up with Dagan. They also know first-hand how anxious Netanyahu is to detract from Palestinian pressure for their own state in the West Bank and Gaza -- by bombing Iran's nuclear installations.

As Dagan put it, "This would mean regional war and in that case you would give Iran the best possible reason to continue its nuclear program."

And the regional challenge that Israel would then face, said the spy chief, "would be impossible." He and his intel colleagues know that Iran has formidable asymmetrical retaliatory capabilities -- from Bahrain, homeport for the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, with a local population that is two-thirds Shiite, many of them pro-Iran, to the Hormuz Strait, Qatari and Saudi oil terminals, and Hezbollah and Hamas rockets and missiles.

Dagan, Yuval Diskin, head of Shin Bet, the internal security agency, and Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, the military chief of staff, all stepped down this year, And Dugan made clear he and his retiring colleagues served as a brake on the gung-ho Bibi Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak.

According to Israeli media reports, a week before retiring, Dagan tried to send a message to the Israeli public to warn about Netanyahu's plans for an attack on Iran. But military censorship blocked any reporting of Dagan's views. He was no sooner officially retired than he evaded the censors.

Haaretz front-paged a commentary by Ari Shavit that said, "It's not the Iranians nor the Palestinians who are keeping Dagan awake at night, but Israel's leadership."

Dagan appeared on stage at Tel Aviv University last week, where he told Shavit he is deeply worried about the next turn of the Palestinian wheel at the U.N. General Assembly in New York next September. This is when the Palestinians will request recognition of a Palestinian state with its pre-1967 war borders.

The vote is expected to be unanimous -- other than two dissenters: The United States and Israel.

This is when Dagan expects Netanyahu to attack Iran. By going public now, he hopes to put the kibosh on the well-rehearsed plan.

Israeli media added other intelligence names against the prime minister, e.g., Amos Yadlin, also retiring as head of military intelligence.

Dagan is no wooly-headed liberal, reported The New York Times. He was first appointed by super hawk Ariel Sharon. He served under three prime ministers and was reappointed twice.

He is credited with major intel operations that destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007 and organized the successful assassination of key Hezbollah operatives who were planning to kill Israelis.

Dagan detractors -- and there are many in the ranks of the governing coalition -- accuse him of grandstanding as he prepares a political debut. But by law, after serving as a top spy chief, he has to wait three years before entering the political arena.

 

 




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