Jerusalem
Post. "PM Rejects Claim by Mossad
Agents that Gov't Abandoned Them." 6 Jul. 2000. [http://www.jpost.com]Materials arranged chronologically.
Jerusalem
Post. "PM Rejects Claim by Mossad
Agents that Gov't Abandoned Them." 6 Jul. 2000. [http://www.jpost.com]
On 5 July 2000, the Prime Minister's Office "said it gave 'full support' to the Mossad and its director, rejecting criticism by Mossad agents that the government had turned its back on the service by sending an agent to stand trial in Switzerland for a bungled wire-tap attempt on a Hizbullah member."
Capella,
Peter, and Suzanne Goldenberg. "Israeli Relief at Spy's Light Sentence."
The Guardian, 8 Jul. 2000. [http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk]
"Switzerland's supreme court has allowed a Mossad agent [known as Issac Bental] to return to Israel after it handed down a one-year suspended prison sentence on charges of espionage."
Hockstader, Lee. "The
Mossad Looks for a Few Good Spies." Washington Post National Weekly
Edition, 14 Aug. 2000, 15.
In the past, the Mossad "has done its recruiting via the old boys' network." However, times have changed, and the agency has begun "advertising job vacancies in Israel's biggest newspapers as well as on the prime minister's office Web site."
Lathem, Niles. "Rich
was Spy for Israel." New York Post, 5 Feb. 2001. [http://www.
nypost.com]
Marc Rich, the fugitive commodities trader pardoned by President Clinton, "lived a double life during his 20 years as a fugitive, funneling secret data to Israeli and other intelligence services about some unsavory governments.... [D]etails about Rich's ultimate high-wire act as a spy for Israel and other countries were provided to The Post as congressional committees prepare to hold hearings into former President Bill Clinton's controversial decision to pardon" Rich.
Rabinovich,
Abraham. "Israel´s Intelligence Has a Deadly Edge." Washington
Times, 7 Aug. 2001. [http://www.washtimes.com]
"The uncanny accuracy with which Israel has carried out a succession of strikes against Palestinian militants ... [shows that] Israel clearly has an abundance of intelligence sources. The accuracy with which it is able to put its hands on specific individuals would do credit to a security agency working within its own population, let alone one working secretly within a hostile population."
Weiner, Tim. "Making Rules in the World Between War and Peace."
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2001. [http://www.nytimes.com]
Weiner discusses the Israeli policy of "liquidation" -- that is, "lethal, anticipatory self-defense" against individuals Israel believes are responsible for terrorist acts. Palestinians call the Israeli actions "'assassination,' and say about 60 of their activists have been killed since September."
O'Sullivan, Arieh. "Mossad Head: We Need Spies, Not Just Electronics." Jerusalam Post, 25 Sep. 2001. [http://www.jpost.com]
Katz,
Samuel M. "Israeli Agents Live with the Enemy." Washington
Times, 7 Oct. 2001. [http://www.washtimes.com]
"Israel's elite commando undercover squads, or 'Mista'arvim,' have been one of its most effective, albeit controversial, tools" in the effort to crush Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. Such "undercover units [have been] a staple of special operations since long before the Jewish state came into existence."
Dobbs,
Michael. "Myths Over Attacks on U.S. Swirl Through Islamic World: Many
Rumors Lay Blame on an Israeli Conspiracy." Washington Post,
13 Oct. 2001, A22, [http://www. washingtonpost.com]
"Israeli agents did it. That, at least, is a theory widely discussed and believed in the Islamic world concerning who organized the suicide attacks of Sept. 11.... A slight twist to the theory has been provided by the Voice of Palestine radio, which is controlled by Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. Earlier this week, the station reported, without providing any source, that the Mossad at least had advance knowledge of the hijackings, and that U.S. law enforcement officials had arrested three Mossad agents in connection with the attacks."
Shpiro, Shlomo. "Intelligence Services and Foreign Policy: German-Israeli Intelligence and Military Co-operation." German Politics 11, no. 1 (Apr. 2002): 23-42.
Middle East News Line. "Israel Transfers Mossad Agency Director." 3 Sep. 2002. [http:// www.menewsline.com]
Ephraim Halevy, Mossad's director since 1997, "has been transferred to chair the National Security Council. Halevy will also remain at the Mossad until a replacement is appointed."
Eshel, David. "Israel Hones Intelligence Operations to Counter Intifada." Jane's Intelligence Review, Oct. 2002, 26.
Navon, Amit. "'Dipped His Head in Blood.'" Ma'ariv (Sofshayu'a Supplement) [in Hebrew], 11 Apr. 2003. [http://www.fas.org/irp/world/israel/shin_bet/specops.html]
[From FBIS Translation] "Of all the Shin Bet units and departments that shy away from public knowledge, ranging from the Jewish division to the prime minister's personal bodyguards, the [special] operations unit has most managed to maintain its anonymity.... The unit carries out an extensive range of operations, from tailing individual terrorists to spying on complex operations." The article includes comments from Danny Bar, a former member of the special operations unit who has recently published a book entitled Shahid (Martyr).
David, Steven R., and Yael Stein. "Israel's Policy of Targeted Killings." Ethics and International Affairs 17, no. 2 (Fall 2003).
BBC. "New Zealand Jails Israeli 'Spies.'" 15 Jul. 2004. [http://news.bbc.co.uk]
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark has announced that she will impose "diplomatic sanctions on Israel over the activities of two alleged members of the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad." The Israelis, Uriel Zosha Kelman and Eli Cara, "were sentenced to six months in prison for trying to obtain New Zealand passports illegally."
Erlanger, Steven. "Israelis Fault Intelligence Agencies on Bombings by Hamas Cell." New York Times, 2 Sep. 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]
On 1 September 2004, "Israeli intelligence agencies came under careful criticism ... for their failure to crack the Hamas cell in Hebron that carried out the twin suicide bombings in Beersheba" on 31 August 2004.
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