Failure of Israel’s spy agency Mossad led to death of Australian Ben Zygier
Why Israel Couldn’t Contain Prisoner X Story, The Daily Beast, by Dan Goldenblatt Feb 14, 2013 Even with the increased flow of information about Prisoner X—Ben Zygier, aka Ben Alon, aka Ben Allen, aka…—we will probably never really know the truth. What could be the chain of events that led a good Jewish boy from Melbourne, Australia, who, it was confirmed by Israel, worked for the Mossad for 10 years, to end up as an anonymous prisoner in complete isolation in Israel’s most secure and watched prison cell? The fact that under what was supposed to be 24-7-365 observation he also succeeded to hang himself only adds to the mystery.
Prisoner X seems to have been employed by what the Guardian is calling a front company set up by Mossad in Europe that was involved in selling electronic wares to Iran and elsewhere. One needs not to be an investigative journalist or spy novelist to see a possible connection between this and a long list of unexplained explosions, highly sophisticated viruses and a long list of assassinations that have reportedly negatively affected the progress of the Iranian nuclear program.This will and may already be material for a Hollywood box office hit. However, from Israel’s point of view I would like to highlight two troubling points:
First is what appears to be a colossal failure of Israel’s crowned spook agency to understand new media and the information age. The Mossad may know how to develop sophisticated viruses that destroy uranium centrifuges and other hardware but when it comes to Twitter, Facebook and other social media, the start-up nation’s spy agency and the prime minister’s office (its direct boss) failed in a most embarrassing way and probably exacerbated the damage of the case……
The second point of concern is the reaction of some and the silence of others since the case exploded all over global and local media……
The obvious proto-fascist ultra-nationalist position of the person who used to be Israel’s first diplomat should serve as an ominous reminder of how close a reality whereby darkened windowed cars pull up to political dissident’s homes in the middle of the night, dragging us out of bed can be.
To end on a more positive note, I will carefully say that the results of the last elections have strengthened the democratic forces in Israel and reduce the chances of Israel slipping into tyranny. ……http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/14/why-israel-couldn-t-contain-prisoner-x-story.html
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