Friday, November 04, 2011

Israeli psychological Operations in the Western and Arab media

"Israel's prime minister has ordered an investigation into alleged leaks of plans to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, it has been reported.  According to the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Jarida, the main suspects are the former heads of the Mossad and the Shin Bet, respectively Israel's foreign and domestic intelligence agencies."  First, of all, as I wrote on Twitter yesterday, it is very revealing that all Israeli media are filled with reports of Israeli preparations to attack Iran.  This is not the first time.  But when the Israeli censor allows such reports, it means that they are intended only as psychological operations intended to intimidate and to scare due to the lack of a military option available for the terrorist state.  Every two years or so, we read such reports.  The US is in such a terrible be mess in the Middle East, and given the election cycle, I rule it out.  Do you know how many bets of Arabic sweets I have won over this in the Bush years.  Finally, when you see a Kuwaiti newspaper cited it CONFIRMS that it is a Mossad-planted story.  The Kuwaiti press (after the expulsion of the gifted Palestinian journalists and editors in 1991) is the most yellow of all the Yellow and oily Arabic press.