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# Explosive Allegation: Israel Planned To Blow Up Passenger Plane In Arafat Assassination Plot

For years, many had speculated - for which they were promptly cast as tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists - that when it comes to achieving illegal goals, including but not limited to creating "false flag" terrorism and political assassinations, few are as skilled and industrious as the CIA and Mossad. Especially Mossad.

Only, as so often happens, most (if not all) such "conspiracy theories" turn out to be truth, in this case exposed thanks to the work of Israeli investigative journalist Ronen Bergman, whose just published explosive book "'Rise and Kill First: The secret history of Israel’s targeted killings" details such Israeli plans as the assassination of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat which included a plot to blow up passenger planes and football stadiums.

Ronen Bergman, the intelligence correspondent for Yediot Aharonot newspaper, persuaded many agents of Mossad, Shin Bet and the military to tell their stories, some using their real names.

The result is the first comprehensive look at Israel’s use of state-sponsored killings.

An excerpt from the book published in the NYT , details how when former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was defense minister, he ordered the Israeli army to shoot down a passenger plane carrying hundreds of innocent people Arafat was thought to be on. Arafat was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization at the time. Although the plan was eventually called off, it was allegedly one of a list of plans to to assassinate the Palestinian leader.

Bergman spoke to hundreds of intelligence and defense officials and studied classified documents which have revealed a “hidden history, surprising even in the context of Israel’s already fierce reputation.”

“I found that since World War II, Israel has used assassination and targeted-killing more than any other country in the West, in many cases endangering the lives of civilians,” Bermen chillingly wrote, in the process unleashing a whole new series of conspiracies theories, many of which will certainly also be confirmed.

In another assassination attempt in October 1982, Mossad set its sights on a plane which was carrying 30 wounded children, victims of the Sabra and Shatila massacre by Phalange militia in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon.

According to the book, Tsomet, the Mossad unit which recruits assets overseas, had heard Arafat would take a plane from Athens to Cairo. Caesarea, the Mossad unit responsible for targeted killings, sent two operatives to wait at Athens airport. F-15 fighters were placed on alert. Mossad eventually realized the man was not Arafat, but his brother – who was bringing wounded Palestinian children to Cairo for medical treatment.

As Bergmen explains, he first heard of that assassination plan in 2011, but his source made him promise to wait until a second person came forward with the story. In another case detailed in the book, fighter jets surrounded a commercial flight from Jordan to Tunisia, while in another incident, they disrupted a Boeing 707’s communications, Haaretz reports.

In addition to Mossad's apparent penchant for covering up a single assassination among dozens of innocent victims, there is an even more bizarre revelation.

Bergmen writes of an assassination attempt inspired by the movie The Manchurian Candidate. Israelis reportedly sought to turn a Palestinian prisoner into a trained killer. The only problem is that this backfired when, five hours after being released, the prisoner turned himself into the police and explained everything.

Then there was plain old mass murder: another plan was to take out all of the Palestine Liberation Organization leadership by setting up bombs inside a Beirut stadium where the group were planning to celebrate the anniversary of their first operation against Israel. According to the book, the Israelis also set up cars rigged with explosives outside the stadium, set to detonate minutes after the first explosion to target survivors as they were trying to escape.

The operation was cancelled at the last minute, after a group of officers and the defense minister demanded it be called off.

“You can’t just kill a whole stadium,” an officer remembered telling then-Prime Minister Menahem Begin. “The whole world will be after us.”

Smart.

Meanwhile, Israel's vendetta with Arafat continued and in 1982, Sharon created a special task force named Salt Fish to take out the PLO leader. He appointed special operations experts, Meir Dagan, who later became head of Mossad, and Rafi Eitan, who was then adviser to the defense minister on counterterrorism matters. The group even debated killing Israeli journalists who were going to interview Arafat in Lebanon in 1982, with the consensus being that, yes, it was worth carrying out such an operation. However, Mossad lost the group on the way to the meeting.

"The feeling was that it was something personal for Sharon,” Air Force commander in Chief Major General David Ivry told Bergmen.

One can almost see why.

Still, despite their best efforts, Arafat continued to evade Mossad's relentless assassination attempts, in no smart part thanks to the occasional normal human being.

Uzi Dayan, the operation’s commander, told Bergman Arafat was saved by two things, “his interminable good luck and me.”

He explained that he was concerned about civilians being killed in an assassination, and clashed with Eitan over it, who would get angry over missed opportunities. Dayan even withheld intelligence from Eitan to prevent civilian casualties.

> Eitan would remind Dayan that he did not have the authority to decide whether or not to drop a bomb. But Dayan nonetheless found a way to take a hand in the decision-making. “All I had to do was to report when the target was ripe from the intelligence point of view,” he said. “So from that point on, each time we knew that bombing would lead to massive civilian casualties, we reported that the target wasn’t ripe from the intelligence angle.”

Based on 1,000 interviews and thousands of documents, and running more than 600 pages, Rise and Kill First makes the case that Israel has used assassination in the place of war, killing half a dozen Iranian nuclear scientists, for instance, rather than launching a military attack. It also strongly suggests that Israel used radiation poisoning to eventually kill Arafat, an act its officials have consistently denied

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It wasn't just Arafat: poisoned toothpaste that takes a month to end its target’s life. Armed drones. Exploding cell phones. Spare tires with remote-control bombs. Assassinating enemy scientists and discovering the secret lovers of Islamic holy men: these were the techniques Israel used to carry out at least 2,700 assassination operations in its 70 years of existence. While many failed, they add up to far more than any other Western country, the book says.

Bergman, the author of several books, also says that the Israeli secret services sought to interfere with his work, holding a meeting in 2010 on how to disrupt his research and warning former Mossad employees not to speak with him.

He also claimed that President George W. Bush adopted many Israeli techniques after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and President Barack Obama launched several hundred targeted killings.

Bergman raises moral and legal concerns provoked by state-sponsored killing, including the existence of separate legal systems for secret agents and the rest of Israel. But he presents the operations, for the most part, as achieving their aims. While many credit the barrier Israel built along and inside the West Bank with stopping assaults on Israeli citizens in the early 2000s, he argues that what made the difference was “a massive number of targeted killings.”

One of Bergman’s most important sources was Meir Dagan, a recent head of Mossad for eight years who died in early 2016. Toward the end of his career, Dagan fell out with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu partly over launching a military attack on Iran. Netanyahu said intelligence techniques such as selling the country faulty parts for its reactors — which Israel and the U.S. were doing — weren’t enough.

Ex-Mossad Chief Meir Dagan in 2014

Finally, we may have to wait for part 2 of the book to learn how many of Mossad's other clandestine operations leading to "massive civilian casualties" - with several key prominent examples springing to mind - were not stopped from taking place.

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Bes Jan 25, 2018 10:31 PM Permalink

Trump would have approved

because Trump, Pence, and Israel have been disrespected

hahaha!

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Sir Edge Bes Jan 25, 2018 10:35 PM Permalink

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""By Way Of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War""

.............."Pull It"

Edgey...

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tmosley Sir Edge Jan 25, 2018 11:17 PM Permalink

Kikes don't belong in the West. Ship them to their desert shithole along with the rest of their desert monkey pals and wall them off forever.

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DownWithYogaPants tmosley Jan 25, 2018 11:31 PM Permalink

Israel the apartheid state. It does not exist for the citizens there. It exists so Rothschild private central bankers can explicitly control intelligence apparatus and use assassination as a direct tool of the bankers.

I have a few Jewish friends but I can assure you they eat pork and they are NOT bankers. It's the sociopath western bankers we need to do in.

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Bes DownWithYogaPants Jan 25, 2018 11:43 PM Permalink

Israel exists to control

the Front Door of Africa

the Side Door of Asia

and the Back Door of Europe

strategically located

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stizazz Bes Jan 25, 2018 11:45 PM Permalink

Apartheid Israhell is guilty of way more than that. GUILTY of WAR CRIMES. WARNING: Graphic Images

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Dr. Acula stizazz Jan 26, 2018 1:51 AM Permalink

That's not very graphic; try googling for white phosphorous images.

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Zero Point Dr. Acula Jan 26, 2018 2:48 AM Permalink

Jews learn from birth that the goyim are subhumans and killing us is meaningless.

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wildbad Zero Point Jan 26, 2018 4:05 AM Permalink

in the end though, they opted for polonium

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eatapeach wildbad Jan 26, 2018 7:46 AM Permalink

Support BDS. Apartheid South Africa and now Apartheid Israel. Human rights is human rights.

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Ace006 Bes Jan 26, 2018 1:35 AM Permalink

So where's the control?

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Koba the Dread Bes Jan 26, 2018 2:45 AM Permalink

And historically sat astride the only land route between ancient Egyptian civilization and those of Mesopotamia. Pay the extortion money and they let your caravan pass. If not, not!

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Dr. Acula tmosley Jan 26, 2018 1:29 AM Permalink

How dare you! You sound like a feelings-hurter. My 5-year old grandma was one of the six gorillion who died in the Sandy Hook gassings.

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Koba the Dread tmosley Jan 26, 2018 2:50 AM Permalink

They don't have a desert shithole. That's someone else's desert shithole and they are illegal immigrants squatting on it.

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ShakenNotStirred tmosley Jan 26, 2018 3:08 AM Permalink

You don't belong in this planet. Take ZH with you and don't let the door kick your behind in your way out

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justa minute ShakenNotStirred Jan 26, 2018 4:47 AM Permalink

there is coming a real Jacob's trouble, not the fake one used all the time

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hestroy ShakenNotStirred Jan 26, 2018 6:25 AM Permalink

Sahlom, shalom, my degenerated kike friend. Don't forget Goyim are only animals for you. For us you are murderers, thieves and liars. But still some kind of very evil men.

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Juggernaut x2 Bes Jan 25, 2018 10:40 PM Permalink

Trump had on the loveliest "Israeli Flag Blue" tie on when he kissed Bibi's ass today in Davos

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Conscious Reviver Juggernaut x2 Jan 25, 2018 11:47 PM Permalink

I see 5 Zino-variety Trumptards have checked in to register their disproval.

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eatapeach Conscious Reviver Jan 26, 2018 7:47 AM Permalink

Hasbara.

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Mustafa Kemal Bes Jan 25, 2018 10:51 PM Permalink

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ecause Trump, Pence, and Israel have been disrespected

hahaha!"

Respect ma atoritahhh!

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DC Beastie Boy Bes Jan 25, 2018 10:58 PM Permalink

Omg like last century?

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Dindu Nuffins Jan 25, 2018 10:32 PM Permalink

Let's not forget the Lavon Affair and the USS Liberty. Our Greatest Ally targets us just as much as Palestinians.

And if you are caught in a plan to false-flag an Islamist terrorist attack like the Lavon Affair, the next step up is creating a false flag so horrible that it dare not be investigated...

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Giant Meteor Dindu Nuffins Jan 25, 2018 10:34 PM Permalink

Nor the dancing Israelis .. spiking the ball so to speak ..

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Juggernaut x2 Dindu Nuffins Jan 25, 2018 10:37 PM Permalink

Like 9-11, sometimes the Israelis have to remind us who the bitch is in this relationship

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fleur de lis Juggernaut x2 Jan 25, 2018 10:43 PM Permalink

Where is Mementoil and his alibi for this story.

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Rafi Eitan was invited to Northern Ireland by Margaret Thatcher to size up the British Army and their tactics as they sought to quell growing Irish rebellions.

He was festering in Belfast and other cities, and taught the Brits all about the Bolshevik techniques that had served his vile ancestors so well as they destroyed the Russian people.

Unfortunately for the Mossad and the Brits, the Irish did not submit to roundups like the Russians and indeed responded even worse.

All Mr. Mossad did was increase the bloodshed and delay any reconciliation.

When the IRA found out about Eitan's contribution, he was told in no uncertain terms that if he ever set foot in Ireland north or south again he would be a target.

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shitshitshit fleur de lis Jan 26, 2018 2:29 AM Permalink

That's excellent. I love Irish people. At least they have a heart.

Now step back and think for a little: what does the whole story of this book tell besides bloodshed anecdotes about the ways of the mossad?

Well it tells volume about the morale of the Isreali troops: if you have so many spies willing to disclose sensitive affairs, some even under their real names, this means they understand what they did was bad and they can't take it anymore. They also understand they can be disposed of like their former boss any minute.

Living for a lie kills you inside and the more you age, the more you want to come clean.

Again the Kissinger crook put it another way when he said a few years back that Isreal would no longer exist within 10 years.

We're almost there, resistance commences:

https://postnewsd2.blogspot.fr/2018/01/israeli-pilots-refuse-to-deport…

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IReallyDontCare fleur de lis Jan 26, 2018 6:31 AM Permalink

And now the IRA and its puppets in Sinn Fein help the Brits run Northern Ireland, the Irish in N.I are surrender monkeys just like their cousins in the Republic of Ireland when they helped the Nazi's in WW2.

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motoXdude Jan 25, 2018 10:33 PM Permalink

I just want to hold a Bleed-In to get free Hygiene products and stop Israelis from Blowing-up stuff!

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RobertTheGenius motoXdude Jan 25, 2018 10:42 PM Permalink

#MeToo

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Rex Andrus Jan 25, 2018 10:36 PM Permalink

They do it all the time.

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Juggernaut x2 Rex Andrus Jan 25, 2018 10:38 PM Permalink

The jew cries out in pain as he assassinates you

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Dr. Acula Jan 25, 2018 10:37 PM Permalink

Rumor has it that Israel fired a missile at Hawaii the other day (it wasn't a false alarm). They lost one of their Dolphin submarines in the response.

Were they trying to start a war between US and North Korea? Because it doesn't have a Rothschild central bank? Or were they trying to clean up one of Obama's "hot dog stands"?

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fleur de lis Dr. Acula Jan 25, 2018 10:44 PM Permalink

Yep -- Jim Stone mentioned that last week.

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shitshitshit Dr. Acula Jan 26, 2018 3:48 AM Permalink

Source please.

I won't accept Sorcha Faal btw.

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SHsparx Jan 25, 2018 10:38 PM Permalink

Nah, mossad's got nothing on US intelligence. JFK and 911 still are and probably will always be the greatest and most successful false flag and assassination in human history.

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Ima anal sphincter SHsparx Jan 25, 2018 11:11 PM Permalink

Uhhhh...... Who did 911 again?

We played along, but we certainly didn't run the show.

Fuck Israhell and all who support it.

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ShakenNotStirred Ima anal sphincter Jan 25, 2018 11:34 PM Permalink

Did your anal sphincter increased in size after your comment?

Because the neighborhood took notice.

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Conscious Reviver ShakenNotStirred Jan 25, 2018 11:50 PM Permalink

Zionist ad homenim comments are so boring.

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hestroy ShakenNotStirred Jan 26, 2018 6:29 AM Permalink

Tell your supervisor to send some Sayani with IQ at least 80. Not you. You are embarrasing all your degenerated evil mates from IsraHELL.

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SHsparx Ima anal sphincter Jan 26, 2018 2:28 AM Permalink

Mossad may have assisted 911, especially the funding behind it (perhaps with the Saudis), but they weren't behind the whole thing. To think so is moronic at best, delusional at worst.

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AViewFromDublin SHsparx Jan 26, 2018 2:35 AM Permalink

“If these Americans and those like them ever fully understand just how much of their suffering — and the suffering we have inflicted on others — is properly laid on the doorsteps of Israel and its advocates in America, they will sweep aside those in politics, the press and the pulpits alike whose lies and disloyalty brought this about and concealed it from them. They may well leave Israel looking like Carthage after the Romans finished with it. It will be Israel’s own great fault.”
Alan Sabrosky (September 10, 2009) - [19]

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Koba the Dread SHsparx Jan 26, 2018 3:03 AM Permalink

There was no air defense over Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001. None! No entity could have left Washington defenseless on that date except the US government itself. Nineteen drunk jihadi cokeheads couldn't have done that. The Saudi government couldn't have done that. Israel couldn't have done that. Only the US government itself could have done that.

There was no air defense over Washington, D. C. that day! None!

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justa minute SHsparx Jan 26, 2018 4:56 AM Permalink

why are moronic and delusional always part of tribe trolls responses

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USofAzzDownWeGo Jan 25, 2018 10:38 PM Permalink

and no one will ever hear about this..........

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Fiscal Smegma Jan 25, 2018 10:41 PM Permalink

DANG.. To bad they didn't go through with it.

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hestroy Fiscal Smegma Jan 26, 2018 6:31 AM Permalink

Why do you say (((they))) when you are talking about (((you))).

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reTARD Jan 25, 2018 10:42 PM Permalink

Just joos trying to be joos. Move along...

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T-NUTZ reTARD Jan 25, 2018 11:19 PM Permalink

the only thing worse than a gook is a nazi.

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Conscious Reviver T-NUTZ Jan 25, 2018 11:54 PM Permalink

No, you stinkin' zino-philes are the worst ever by far.

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