Yossi Melman
@yossi_melman · Middle East
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Maariv is publishing an interview today with Ruth Bar, Netanyahu's "mistress" from the "hot tape" affair. Bar, who was Netanyahu's adviser in the 1996 election, gave the interview on the occasion of the publication of her book. In July 2024 I published the full story about the tape that did not exist, who called Netanyahu, causing him to panic and hurry to confess live on air
Translated from HebrewAnother revelation. After the destruction of Syria's nuclear reactor in 2007, Mossad chief Dagan planned to kidnap Othman, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, to obtain from him information about how Assad had managed for years to deceive Israeli intelligence. The kidnapping was not carried out, but Mossad operatives knocked on Othman's door (according to reports) in Vienna and tried to recruit him. He slammed the door in their faces. My article
Translated from HebrewAfter 18 years, permission was given to publish what had already been published abroad long ago: Shayetet fighters killed the Syrian general Muhammad Suleiman in August 2008. They sailed in a vessel to the port of Tartus, disembarked from it in boats, climbed onto a roof near his villa, and 6 snipers shot him while he was dining with his wife and a couple of friends. Sulaiman was the project director for building the nuclear reactor
Translated from HebrewBecause of conflicts of interest, Zini and Gofman are barred from handling Qatargate—the cooperation, in exchange for financial gain, of people in the Prime Minister’s Office with an Islamist enemy state during wartime. This is unbelievable. Their deputies will submit the opinions examining the security damage for the purpose of filing indictments. And still, the Justice Ministry and the High Court refuse my request and @elad_man’s request to disclose their conflict-of-interest agreements to the public. My article
Translated from HebrewThe whitewashing, in a circular movement from Miami to Israel, of the alleged Iranian plan to assassinate Yair Netanyahu, and the questions about the timing of the publication, the platform and the source that must be asked about the story. My articles
Translated from HebrewThe Air Force strike in Syria is a finger in Trump's eye. It has no military benefit. It is Netanyahu's provocation to open a front against Turkey as well, and a continuation of his policy of fomenting an endless war in order to tame the public into obedience to prevent elections. It's astonishing that no one in the opposition dares to criticize a foolish action. My articles
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