"You should help us and let us take care of you. You don't want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family," the Mossad chief is reported to have told Bensouda.
#Israel#MOSSAD#ICC#HumanRights#InternationalLaw#Palestine#WarCrimes: "The former head of the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, allegedly threatened a chief prosecutor of the international criminal court in a series of secret meetings in which he tried to pressure her into abandoning a war crimes investigation, the Guardian can reveal.
Yossi Cohen’s covert contacts with the ICC’s then prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, took place in the years leading up to her decision to open a formal investigation into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in occupied Palestinian territories.
That investigation, launched in 2021, culminated last week when Bensouda’s successor, Karim Khan, announced that he was seeking an arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, over the country’s conduct in its war in Gaza.
The prosecutor’s decision to apply to the ICC’s pre-trial chamber for arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, alongside three Hamas leaders, is an outcome Israel’s military and political establishment has long feared."
This was personally undertaken by the then head of Mossad who is now rising in Israeli politics.
This isn't just about #Netanyahu or a recent swing to extremism in Israel, these crimes have been ongoing for decades but are now blatant and impossible to hide, support by US/UK governments.
Yossi Cohen, the former head of the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, allegedly threatened a chief prosecutor of the international criminal court in a series of secret meetings in which he tried to pressure her into abandoning the war crimes investigation. #Israel#ICC#Mossad#WarCrimes
The crackdown on Columbia University students by the NYPD was spearheaded by Rebecca Weiner, who is a faculty member of the school. Weiner, a Columbia professor, heads an NYPD intelligence division that operates an office in Tel Aviv.
Weiner attributed the need for the violent raid to the students' rhetoric.
Unconfirmed: computers taken to Gaza by Hamas on October 7 were hacked by Iranian team exposing the list of all Mossad operatives in West Asi and Europe.
The news comes from an Iranian telegram channel and can't be verified.
If it's true. Then it's the biggest security risk for Israeli global operation in their history.
...gegen den Westen. Wie der ehemalige #Mossad-Chef über einen weiteren Bestandteil, dieses #HybridenKriesgs, die #CyberWarfare schrieb: 365 Tage im Jahr, 24 Stunden am Tag.
The damage control to distance from the semi official Mossad Twitter account is all over the internet
The disgusting post of the account that is either run by or very close to Israeli Mossad have caused an uproar among both Americans and antiwar activists on social media
But the posts of others are much worse:
He killed himself for what? Hamas or Palestine? It could be similar to what suicide bombers think when they commit suicide. Aaron Bushnell didn’t kill anyone but himself, so I’m not calling him a suicide bomber, but I am comparing the thought process and anyone who encouraged this to a suicide bomber.
Another poster said:
Someone was involved with this. Who posted it? The video was streamed on Twitch for about one hour. An independent reporter named Talia Jane found it on Twitch before it went down. Did someone tip Talia Jane @Taliaotg off? You can watch the video of Aaron Bushnell walking to the Israeli embassy and then a blurred visual of him burning himself to death on this link.
Followed by:
I don’t see honor in suicide for a cause or most reasons. I am Catholic, and this is considered a mortal sin. It’s not for me to judge. However, no one should praise someone for doing such a terrible thing to himself. It hurts too many people who care about the person. This wasn’t the way to make a statement. This method of protest should be discredited.
Laura Loomer, who is Jewish, wrote on X:
“This is what mental illness looks like. It’s sad to see people are celebrating what this man did when he clearly has severe mental issues.“I don’t care if he’s a veteran. His behavior is unacceptable and dishonorable. There is no honor in supporting Islamic terrorists. *&$# him.
“He is a traitor to his country who lit himself on fire to support HAMAS. GAZA is controlled by HAMAS, and we need to stop supporting people who whitewash Islamic terrorism.
“If he wanted to end genocide, he should have asked Hamas to stop killing Jews. There is no such thing as Genocide in GAZA. The only people who have been genocided are Jews and Christians. Counter-terrorism isn’t genocide. I know it’s hard for those with Low IQs to understand this. But this “soldier” is very clearly a Hamas sympathizer.”
Her most recent comment to those who say she’ll want to delete what she wrote:
“No. I mean what I said. I am entitled to my own opinion. I don’t care if people are mad at me. What I said is the truth. And I will keep speaking truth. Suicide is dishonorable and so is self immolation for a HAMAS campaign.”
Angry Staffer's take on Top Hamas official killed by blast in Lebanon:
High potential for escal. Israel been targeting Saleh Arouri—founding member of Hamas milit wing—for yrs. US also had bounty on his head for terror actions.He was close to Iran & Hezbollah.
Gonna be interesting (read: sad) watching ppl decide another terrorist org, this time, Hezbollah, =the good guys.I expect to see hits in Qatar, too..this is also kind of war ppl have asked Isr to fight—target the leadership right?
Gaza is Sarajevo, is Podujevo, is Oluja, is Batajnica, is Srebrenica. It is Vukovar and the Tvrđavska market and Markale. It is the horror of the bomb dropping from above, of “all men are combatants”, of the refugee column.
Read this if you are from #Yugoslavia and remember. And then let’s do something.
@loshmi the major difference that I see is that Bosnian war was not started on behalf of the people by a Bosnian military autocracy, but rather it was started by serbian cells within the newly-independent country against freely elected government of the independent BiH.
Your argument for similarity is very humanist, and it's nice, but it is by definition populist, I'm sorry. By the same token, one can say "Kfar Aza is Bucha is Irpen is Kherson" and compare arab league and allied armies to russian army, right?
Also, many people who start with invoking Srebrenica end with "from the river to the sea". But I agree with the sentiment. First #Mossad has shown that it can't be trusted to do intelligence, and now #IDF has shown that it can't be trusted to wage a defensive war.
#CAIRO — After a long journey from #Gaza, more than 100 American citizens and their families have entered #Egypt through the #RafahCrossing. Jonathan Webster, the #USEmbassy in Cairo's consul general, said some of those families are telling him they ran out of food and water during their journeys. #Israel
According to several reports, #DavidBarnea, the head of #Mossad, had wanted to travel to #Qatar but was blocked by the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin #Netanyahu, and other cabinet ministers.
The decision prompted demands from the families of hostages for an explanation, saying that they were “shocked” by it.