Listen to what the former Israeli spy and Son of Hamas author says when he speaks Arabic: it’s clear he’s more double agent than turncoat. by Walid Shoebat, PAJAMAS MEDIA While a prisoner of Israel in 1996, Mosab Hassan Yousef — the son of Sheik Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas — was approached by Shin Bet agents who looked to recruit him to spy within Hamas. He agreed. Mosab’s information soon had Shin Bet calling him “the most reliable source in the Hamas leadership,” and Israeli lives were undoubtedly saved as a result of Mosab’s collaboration. Despite this success, Yousef has since revealed himself to be more double agent than turncoat. By Ted Belman Last week, I introduced myself, to a distinguished looking gentleman who I had seen many times in my neighborhood. Turns out he was retired Israeli Ambassidor Ilan Baruch. He said he knew my daughter from her service in the Foreign Ministry. We had a short conversation about the peace process and it was immediately apparent that he was a Leftist. He said that Israel must negotiate with the PA as equals. That told me all I needed to know about his position. The next day I mentioned this encounter to Alan Baker at the JCPA and he told me that Baruch had recently resigned as Ambassidor to South Africa. His reason for resigning was that he didn’t agree with Israel’s policies. I mention all this because today Haaretz published an article under the title Palestinian unity is a chance for Mideast peace between equals. The article is hardly worth reading but the point he makes and presumable the point Baruch was making, was that Israel entered Oslo thinking Arafat is... By Prof. Paul Eidelberg Why hasn’t any Israeli government revealed America’s economic as well as strategic and technological dependence on Israel? Leaving this question for a future article, the following is extracted from my book An American Political Scientist in Israel (Lexington Books, 2010). Many pundits contend that Israel, or rather its Government’s undeviating policy of land for peace is simply the consequence of U.S. pressure dating back to the Six-Day War of June 1967, when Israel regained possession of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza (as well as the Sinai and the Golan Heights). As may be seen in the Rogers Plan (1967), the Reagan Plan (1982), and the current Saudi-sponsored Road Map, Washington, more so since Barack Obama entered the White House, (desperately) wants Israel to return to her pre-1967 borders. Why? As is well known, the American... by Daniel Greenfield The State of Israel spent the first 30 years of its modern existence reclaiming its territory, and the next 33 years negotiating the terms on which it would be returned to the neighboring countries which had made war on it, as well as an entirely new terrorist state created in the name of peace and maintained in the name of war. 33 years after the country’s first ‘hawkish’ conservative PM allowed himself to be browbeaten by Jimmy Carter into turning over territory three times its own present size to an Egypt whose new leaders are now disavowing the accords– its current ‘hawkish’ conservative PM is readying himself to offer a whole new raft of concessions in the hopes of preempting a unilateral solution by Obama or Abbas. Laura: As far as Europe is concerned, hamas terrorist hancho yassin is not considered as evil as bin laden because he only stuck to murdering Jews. This is why Israel’s justifiable targeted killing of him was condemned as unlawful. Had Israel been bin laden’s sole target instead of the west, he would have been seen as a peace partner, invited to speak at the UN and received red carpet treatment in European capitals as a statesman. His wives would have frequented the shops of Paris and London. Essentially he would have been treated like arafat. Bin Laden versus Yassin YNet News The flurry of international reactions to the killing of Osama bin Laden by the American army provides Israel with a great opportunity to demonstrate the double standards applied against it by so many in the Western world and elsewhere. All one has to do is compare the reactions of major...
The Mosab Yousef Saga: Did Hamas ‘Defector’ Dupe All of Us?
During the initial contact within Israel’s Maskubia (Jerusalem’s central prison), Mosab agreed to collaborate in exchange for Israel not targeting his father. After years of providing valuable intelligence, in 2007 Mosab declared his conversion to Christianity, moved to California, and went public with his story....Its better to be the strongest in negotiations rather than be equal only
A Conspiracy of Silence in Israel: Part I
What is Washington’s primary motive, which is independent of whether Democrats or Republicans control the White House.Israel’s Folly
For all the furious New York Times articles, there is little to distinguish Israel’s hawks from its doves once they take up their residence in Beit Aghion on the corner of Lord Balfour’s...No Difference Between osama and yassin
Op-ed: Hypocritical world that slammed killing of Hamas’ Yassin now lauds bin Laden hit
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