----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 7:32 AM Subject: Holy War: Israel's Assassination Policy > Israel's Assassination Policy > > http://www.spotlight.org/05_21_00/Israel/israel.html > > Washington. D.C.'s top cops are in tense talks after an Israeli military > official concedes the country's assassination tactics. > > Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT > > By Martin Mann > > In a soundproof conference room adjoining the office of David Carpenter, head > of the State Department's Diplo matic Security division, officials from the > Secret Service, the FBI and Car penter's own staff discussed the latest > headache handed them by a top Israeli official, who confirmed that > "liquidating" anyone considered a "danger" to Israel was the "legitimate and > appropriate" policy of its government. > > That the ministate maintained dozens of hit squads made up of widely traveled > military and civilian triggermen has long been a silently acknowledged fact > of life to U.S. security officials. Every Israeli prime minister in the last > quarter-century has committed political murder with his own hands as a sort > of entrance test for national office. > > But officially, Israel has never before acknowledged its determination to > exterminate troublesome opponents abroad. That veil was lifted late last > month at the retirement ceremonies of Gen. Shabtai Ziv, a former military > judge who served as general counsel of the Shin Beth, Israel's internal > security service for the past dozen years. > > It was an ornate occasion, with Israeli Supreme Court President Aharon Barak > and Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein in attendance as Ziv delivered his > farewell address. > > "As a jurist, I had to distinguish between hostile elements within the > territory of the state of Israel and those who act outside the state and > cannot be arrested or brought to trial," Ziv explained. "As for the latter > [enemies abroad], it is perfectly legitimate to strike at anyone who is a > danger to the state's security. . . . I will authorize a liquidation of > someone like that anywhere, provided I get a clear and specific order from > the political level." > > What troubles American security officials is that the concept of just who is > a "danger to the state" is subject to volatile and bellicose interpretation > among Israeli leaders. The ministate's chief rabbi, Ovadia Yosef, is > currently under criminal investigation for publicly urging the execution of a > government minister participating in the current Mideast peace talks which > involve returning some territory unlawfully occupied by Israel to its > neighbors—a concession considered treason by many Zionist militants and > fundamentalist rabbis. > > "Trouble is, the real promoters of these controversial Mideast settlement > talks are Clinton and his top people," says Lt. Col. Tom Hoskins, a U.S. > Marine counterterrorist expert. "If Zionist fanatics want to kill their own > leaders for going along with Clinton, who can tell when they will turn their > attention—and their hit squads—toward Washington?" > > TROUBLED > > U.S. security and counterintelligence officials are also troubled by the > inroads an alien lobby is making among this nation's law-enforcement and > intelligence agencies. In New York City, Police Commissioner Howard Safir > announced this month that the Simon Wiesenthal Foundation, based in > California, was setting up a center in Manhattan where city and state police > officers will be trained how to handle "interracial" relations. > > Simultaneously, the Justice Depart ment announced that it was, after a long > delay and an attempted cover-up, opening a criminal inquiry into the security > violations reportedly committed by former CIA director John Deutch—known for > his deep ethnic, emotional and political ties to the state of Israel—while > serving as the nation's top ranking spymaster. > > "There are ways for dealing with suspected terrorists, especially if they are > of the Muslim kind," said a former FBI agent. "You harass them, bug them, > defame them, infiltrate them and throw them in jail. But Israel is different. > You make the wrong move, and you will find yourself out of a job and > blacklisted—federally unemployable, so to speak." > > What also worries U.S. experts, who are responsible for the security of > senior American officials as well as Wash ington's many-hued diplomatic > corps, is that a number of top Israeli leaders, among them President Ezer > Weizman, Prime Minister Ehud Barak and his predecessor, former Premier > Benjamin Netanyahu, are under criminal investigation for offenses ranging > from money-laundering to bribery and electoral fraud. > > According to Hitler's Secret Conversation, a stenographic account of personal > discussions with Adolf Hitler, even the head of Nazi Germany thoroughly > rejected assassination as a tool in political struggles. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Never lose a file again. 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