{"id":30184,"date":"2018-01-26T07:04:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T12:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30184"},"modified":"2018-01-26T07:04:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T12:04:44","slug":"explosive-allegation-israel-planned-to-blow-up-passenger-plane-in-arafat-assassination-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30184","title":{"rendered":"Explosive Allegation: Israel Planned To Blow Up Passenger Plane In Arafat Assassination Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-01-25\/explosive-allegation-israel-planned-blow-passenger-plane-arafat-assassination-plot\">Explosive Allegation: Israel Planned To Blow Up Passenger Plane In Arafat Assassination Plot<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\">\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>For years, many had speculated &#8211; for which they were promptly cast as tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists &#8211; that when it comes to achieving illegal goals, including but not limited to creating &#8220;false flag&#8221; terrorism and political assassinations, few are as skilled and industrious as the CIA and Mossad. Especially Mossad.<\/p>\n<p>Only, as so often happens, most (if not all) such &#8220;conspiracy theories&#8221; turn out to be truth, in this case exposed thanks to the work of Israeli investigative journalist Ronen Bergman, whose just published explosive book &#8220;&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rise-Kill-First-Targeted-Assassinations\/dp\/1400069718\">Rise and Kill First: The secret history of Israel\u2019s targeted killings<\/a>&#8221; details such Israeli plans as the assassination of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat which included a plot to blow up passenger planes and football stadiums.<\/p>\n<p>Ronen Bergman, the intelligence correspondent for Yediot Aharonot newspaper, persuaded many agents of Mossad, Shin Bet and the military to tell their stories, some using their real names.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The result is the first comprehensive look at Israel\u2019s use of state-sponsored killings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An excerpt from the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/23\/magazine\/how-arafat-eluded-israels-assassination-machine.html?hpw&amp;rref=magazine&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=well-region&amp;region=bottom-well&amp;WT.nav=bottom-well&amp;mtrref=www.haaretz.com\">published in the NYT <\/a>, details how when former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was defense minister, <strong>he ordered the Israeli army to shoot down a passenger plane carrying hundreds of innocent people Arafat was thought to be on. <\/strong>Arafat was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization at the time. Although the plan was eventually called off, it was allegedly one of a list of plans to to assassinate the Palestinian leader.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/arafat%202.jpg\" data-responsive-image-style=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/arafat%202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"450\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"593567bd-8620-4fda-8b59-03c7d8463302\" data-responsive-image-style=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bergman spoke to hundreds of intelligence and defense officials and studied classified documents which have revealed a \u201chidden history, surprising even in the context of Israel\u2019s already fierce reputation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explosive Allegation: Israel Planned To Blow Up Passenger Plane In Arafat Assassination Plot For years, many had speculated &#8211; for which they were promptly cast as tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists &#8211; that when it comes to achieving illegal goals, including but not limited to creating &#8220;false flag&#8221; terrorism and political assassinations, few are as skilled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18147,16866,135,1049,2389,18149,18148,18146,18145,4318],"class_list":["post-30184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-ariel-sharon","tag-assassination-plot","tag-cia","tag-israel","tag-mossad","tag-palestine-liberation-organization","tag-plo","tag-ronen-bergman","tag-yasser-arafat","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30185,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30184\/revisions\/30185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}