Shin Bet

Court security guards watch as Israeli ultranationalists (R) protest against interrogation methods used by the Shin Bet against suspects in a fatal arson attack in a West Bank village five months ago, during a court hearing in the case in Petah Tikva, Israel, Dec. 28, 2015. The placard in Hebrew reads: "The High Court turned me into an easy prey. I'm worried that the Shin Bet will murder my soul."  (photo by REUTERS/Baz Ratner) (Courtesy Al Monitor)
 
 

Jewish Radicals Celebrating Wedding by Stabbing Photo of Dawabsheh Baby Credit: Channel 10

 
by Charlotte Silver                                                 The Electronic Intifada
This video shows Israeli Jewish youths, some armed with army-issued assault rifles, dancing at a wedding.

Children stand in the burnt home of the Dawabsheh family before the funeral ceremony of Riham, who died of her injuries more than one month after the arson attack by suspected Jewish extremists that killed her 18-month-old baby Ali and her husband Saad, 7 September. Yotam Ronen ActiveStills
 
 
 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu parachuted in a new police chief last week after the government’s previous candidates were thwarted by controversy.
Roni Alsheikh has officially been brought in as a new broom to sweep away a culture of corruption and sex scandals that has plagued the Israeli police for years.
The first choice for police commander, Gal Hirsch, a former army general, had to be dropped last month after it emerged that the FBI had passed on suspicions about his arms-dealing company.

From Boiling Frogs Post:

Today I am joined by Pearse Redmond of PorkinsPolicyReview.com and one of the hosts of the BFP roundtable. We expand on the last two episodes, responding to some listeners comments, in particular explaining our views of the Oded Yinon plan for a 'greater Israel' and the persistent but false rumour that Shin Bet were secretly behind the Entebbe hijacking.

Image: Netanyahu, Hollande and Valls, after he was manhandled by Shin Bet goons
 
 
by RICHARD SILVERSTEIN 

For the first time in history, all top Israeli secret police posts (Mossad, Shin Bet etc.) will soon be held by Orthodox followers of the Talmud. Forward newspaper reporter J.J. Goldberg explains why Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is packing top intelligence slots with strict followers of the Talmud (Michael Hoffman's Afterword follows this excerpt from Mr. Goldberg's report)A Kippah on the Head of Israel’s Intelligence ChiefOne by One, Top Spooks Replaced by OrthodoxBy J.J.

CIA’s John Hadden eventually came to be hated by the Mossad and Israeli intelligence services targeting the United States – a feeling that was mutual. He even went public with the CIA’s findings that Israel had stolen large amounts of weapons-grade uranium from a US Navy contracting company called NUMEC run by Israel sympathizers in Apollo, Pennsylvania. 
 
 

CIA’s John Hadden ignored as Israeli spy Avraham Bendor celebrated
 
 

Shortly after the signing of the Oslo accords between Israel and the PLO in 1993, the Jerusalem Post ran a cartoon that depicted a critical aspect of those accords which has rarely been discussed much less acknowledged. In the cartoon, a smiling Yasser Arafat was sitting upright on a stretcher giving a “V” sign. The stretcher bearers were Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres.