That’s the question raised by a remarkable change in a Jersualem Post story posted Tuesday. The story originally reported that the United States has supplied a million medical masks to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), along with a photo of a palette of masks. Ali Abunimah picks up the story at Electronic Intifada. Yet a...
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NSO Group Points Finger at State Clients in WhatsApp Spying Case
NSO Group – whose technology is reported to have been used against dozens of targets including Pakistani intelligence officials, Indian journalists and exiled Rwandan political activists – also claimed in legal documents that the lawsuit brought against the company by WhatsApp threatened to infringe on its clients’ “national security and foreign policy concerns”. Source: NSO...
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Mossad’s Yossi Cohen Is Touted for Prime Minister
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...
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Netanyahu Turns to Mossad to Help Him Manage Coronavirus Crisis
Yossi Cohen is the chief of Mossad and possible successor toindicted Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Cohen is the man who first talked publicly about assassinating Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. As Israel copes with the COVID19 crisis, Netanyahu has tapped Cohen to obtain medical supplies from Mossad’s intelligence networks. Mossad reportedly delivered 10 million masks....
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Deputy Saudi Intelligence Chief Indicted for Khashoggi Assassination
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a friend of the Trump White House and a business partner with Jared Kushner. He deploys the Saudi spy service, known as the General Intelligence Presidency (GIP) to suppress critics at home and, Turkish prosecutors say, to assassinate them abroad. Turkish officials have indicted 18 men in connection...