Mossad spies posed as American agents in order to recruit terrorists to kill Iranian scientists...

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the article does give some light as to why the current Israeli government so dislikes Obama

A senior Israeli government official has called "absolute nonsense" a Friday report in Foreign Policy that Mossad agents posed as CIA officers in order to recruit members of a Pakistani terror group to carry out assassinations and attacks against the regime in Iran.

Quoting U.S. intelligence memos, Foreign Policy's Mark Perry reported that the Mossad operation was carried out in 2007-2008, behind the back of the U.S. government, and infuriated then U.S. President George W. Bush.


Perry quoted a number of American intelligence officials and claimed that the Mossad agents used American dollars and U.S. passports to pose as CIA spies to try to recruit members of Jundallah, a Pakistan-based Sunni extremist organization that has carried out a series of attacks in Iran and assassinations of government officials.

Israel generally refrains for responding to reports on alleged Mossad activities. However, in the wake of Perry's report as well as the official U.S. condemnation of the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran earlier this week, Israeli officials were quick to issue a complete denial of the report.

The concern was that leaving Perry's report without a response would revive tensions that existed between the U.S. and Israeli intelligence communities following the Jonathan Pollard affair in the 1980s. Pollard was sentenced to life in a U.S. prison after being convicted of spying for Israel.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israeli-official-report-of-mossad-agents-posing-as-cia-spies-absolute-nonsense-1.407285

Maybe even less.

'The concern was that leaving Perry's report without a response would revive tensions that existed between the U.S. and Israeli intelligence communities following the Jonathan Pollard affair in the 1980s. Pollard was sentenced to life in a U.S. prison after being convicted of spying for Israel.'

As I recall, Israel denied that Pollard ever spied for them either - for more than ten years, in fact. I don't know if that did anything to reduce tensions between the CIA and Israel - perhaps another strategy is in order.

Mark Perry, the former advisor for Yasir Arafat and an advocate of U.S. engagement with Hamas and Hezbollah whose interpretation of General David Petraus' statements concerning U.S.-Israeli relations were discredited by Petraus himself, is at it again. Ha'aretz reports:

A senior Israeli government official rushed to denounce a report Friday which alleged Mossad agents had posed as CIA officers in order to recruit members of a Pakistan-based terror group to commit assassinations and attacks in Iran.

The Israeli official called the Foreign Policy article "absolute nonsense." Quoting U.S. intelligence memos, journalist Mark Perry's story reported that the Mossad operation was carried out in 2007-2008, behind the back of the U.S. government and infuriated then U.S. President George W. Bush.

Ha'aretz's description of Perry, the former advisor to Arafat whose foray into the Petraus affair was discredited, as simply a "journalist" is as unconscionable as Ynet referring to anti-Israel activist Richard Silverstein as simply a "U.S. blogger." (And Ynet was back in the act on this last week.)

http://blog.camera.org/archives/2012/01/exarafat_advisor_mark_perry_sp.html

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2012/01/14/israeli-intelligence-source-denies-jundallah-false-flag-story/

Exactly how does advocating US engagement with Hezbollah make someone less credible? I myself am in favour of US engagement with North Korea. That doesn't mean that I support north korea or any given action that they take. Even by the usual standards of hasbarado oppo, this is pathetic.

The above makes Perry less credible.

It's not just being an advisor to Arafat or Hezbollah, but also partaking in the demonization/defamation campaign. I suspect you'd take issue with a former advisor of Meir Kahane writing defamatory crap about the Palestinians. Such a person would be a Kahanist in your view, right?

he was never an advisor to Hezbollah. He was an informal adviser to the PLO, after they had pledged to enter into talks with Israel. As such your comparison to Meir Kahane is ludicrous.

Of course, that wasn't intentional. It was sloppy on my part.

OTOH, there's Perry who deliberately fabricates malicious lies against Israel while being a propagandist for terror organizations. No better than a Kahane apologist.

Presumably that is what you mean when you contend that the article is a "malicious lie"?