Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged the public to stop reporting and scrutinizing Mossad’s anonymous detention of “Prisoner X” under an alias and other secret actions of the security forces, saying that discussion of such reports harms “state security” and that Mossad should be allowed to get back to its secretive business “quietly.”
Providing no details, Netanyahu insisted that Israel protests the individual rights of everybody suspected of a crime, including apparently those disappeared into solitary confinement until they commit suicide and that he “absolutely trusts” Mossad to do whatever it wants properly.
The detention and treatment of Prisoner X, revealed to be Australian Ben Zygier, has sparked major concerns, including among Knesset members, who fear that the secretive nature of his imprisonment, and the long-term “gag order” on the Israeli press which kept all details of it a secret for years, are part of a worrying trend in Israeli society.
That trend extends well beyond Zygier’s own sordid tale, though exactly how far beyond is a matter of no small speculation, since it isn’t at all clear how much else the Israeli press is being ordered to sit on, and how much they simply haven’t found out yet.
Indeed, Zygier’s detention and death appear to have been linked to a passport scandal and potentially an assassination plot that were themselves well covered. If the Netanyahu government will go to such lengths to keep nominal cover over long-since blown secrets, one can only imagine what else they are liable to be doing that hasn’t reached the public’s ear yet.
Netanyahu shot back that if Israelis want to live in “tranquility” they were better off not questioning him nor his spy agencies, and that as an “exemplary democracy” they should let Mossad get back to the shadows.
Right. Just routine tribal affairs, move on…
Let's hope that the Israelis demand accountability and transparency. Netanyahu, his IDF and his intelligence and clandestine ops services can't be trusted to do any of it right without public and judicial oversight, and even then it may be questionable.
Israel and Nottayahoo set a good example for Obomber.
"Providing no details, Netanyahu insisted that Israel protests* "
*protects
His lawyer said that the agent was in good spirits and looking most hopeful toward the future when he was visited the day before his death — and his wife gave him a new born baby just four days before someone hung him up to strangle, above his toilet no less. Enough said.
everything that these es-raeli's do make me sick. I do not believe in Vatican 2. I am disgusted.
Except Prisoner X was also an Australian. remembering that Mossad commits crimes in other Jurisdictions including Murder, Kidnapping, using false Passports of other nations and all of those other illegal Practices.
Or Does Netanyahu think he has the same rights of a US President and can order the execution of either a citizen of another country or in fact a citizen of his own country without trial and hide it on National Security grounds?
Netanyahu: "Mossad should be allowed to get back to its secretive business!!!
Without deceptive False Flags would Zionists Succesfull Colonial Enterprice collapse sooner then Gods anger destroys this last blashemy"… peter czech
The problem for Mr. Netanyahu is that Ben Zygler is not only an Israeli but also an Australian citizen.
The problem for Mr. Netanyahu is that Ben Zygler is not only an Israeli but also an Australian citizen.