It may all be hype, but in the Israeli press, Mossad chief Yossi Cohen is touted in the Israeli press as a successor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his partner in coalition government, former IDF chief of staff, Benny Gantz.
Cohen has expressed loyalty he the prime minister, who faces criminal fraud charges. And when COVID-stricken Israel ran short of medical masks, Cohen came to Netanyahu’s rescue.
Further burnishing Cohen’s Zionist credentials: He was the first Israeli to talk about the possibility of assassinating Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, as I reported here last October.
According to an unsourced Jerusalem Post, Cohen played some still unknown role in the U.S. drone strike that killed Soleimani in January.
Besides the above well-known operations, details have begun to leak of Cohen’s other military-style operations and assassinations of top terror-scientists, as well as his still not fully disclosed involvement in America’s taking out Qasem Soleimani, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force chief (this according to NBC, Avigdor Liberman and information known to The Jerusalem Post). These details will continue to be revealed by the time he steps into the political arena.
This is pretty thin sourcing, so the story may not be true, merely evidence of Cohen’s political ambitions.
The phenomenon of intelligence chiefs becoming chiefs of state is global. George H.W. Bush, former CIA director, was elected U.S. president in 1988. Vladmir Putin was a KGB intelligence officer before he became Russian president. Yossi Cohen wants to follow in their footsteps.
Read the Deep State blog’s guide to Mossad.
