Flashback: By Way of Deception – Zionist Israel Caught Creating Fake Al Qaeda Terror Cell in Palestine!

• See also: Ex Mossad Victor Ostrovsky: Mossad Creates and Controls Islamic Extremist Groups and Uses Them As Patsies!! 
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• BY WAY OF DECEPTION ! Israel pulls a fast one – and gets caught! 
  by Justin Raimondo, www.antiwar.com , December 9, 2002
  The Israelis are riding high, these days – but not, perhaps, for long. Ever since 9/11, the Israeli government and its American amen corner have been making the point that Israel’s fight is now America’s fight, and this argument has met with some success. A recent article in Ha’aretz notes that Israel is winning the struggle for American hearts and minds:
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  “The conventional wisdom among policy-makers in Israel and the United States is that if there is one front on which Israel enjoys a clear advantage in the international arena, it is hasbara – information and public relations in the United States.”
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  Congress is practically Israeli-occupied territory, and the Bushies are in their back pocket: however, there are still some elements of the American public who have not been brought to heel, and this, we are told, shows that “Israel has cause for concern.”
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  It seems that only half of the “influentials” – professionals in the media, politics, and academia, and others who regularly follow the news – take the Israel-can-do-no-wrong line. The Israelis and their American supporters find this worrisome, as well they should. In spite of a constant drumbeat of pro-Israel propaganda, a well-organized cadre of American boosters, and the slavish support of our government, still a great many Americans are able to think clearly and critically about our troublesome “ally.” As Ha’aretz puts it: “
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  “For every individual that supports Israel, there is another who opposes it. This is happening at time when the Palestinians are at a disadvantage in public relations, when the president has openly declared his support for Israel and Israel’s political lobby is at its height.”
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  Those numbers are bound to get worse as news of the latest Israeli caper hits the headlines. It really wasn’t such a hot idea for the Mossad to recruit Palestinians into a phony Al Qaeda cell in Gaza. It was too easy to trace the cell-phone calls and emails back to Israel, as well as Germany and Lebanon. Aside from that, however, there was something a little fishy about their recruitment methods, such as this message cited by ABC News (via Reuters):
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  “After receiving reports from your brothers in the area about your good morals and Islamic beliefs…we appeal to you to work within the ranks of the mujahideen (Muslim fighters) and we will support you with money and weapons. Call us at this number…and identify yourself as Abu Anas. The telephone call should be made between three and five in the afternoon… After you read the letter and understand its content, burn it.
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  “(Signed), Your brother and humble slave of God, Osama bin Laden.”
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  Recruits to this faux-Al Qaeda were given weapons (most of them didn’t work) and money provided by “Palestinian collaborators with Israel,” three of whom are in a Palestinian jail. According to PLO “preventive security” chief Rashid Abu Shbak, some of the money “was transferred from bank accounts in Jerusalem or Israel.”
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  These revelations come in the wake of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s claim that Al Qaeda is behind recent attacks on Israel, and is present in the occupied territories and Lebanon. A phony “Al Qaeda” website has been set up, which we are supposed to believe is the voice of the Evil One in cyberspace: its recent pronouncement that a Palestinian “branch” of Al Qaeda has been formed was duly reported by the Washington Post, which also transcribed the lamentation of one Rachel Bronson, director of Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations:
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  “‘The idea that al Qaeda is establishing a special cell to focus on Israelis is horrifying news…’ … Al Qaeda’s role could be extremely destabilizing, she added, because ‘it will be weighing in on the side of Hamas,’ the Palestinian Islamic group that launches suicide bombings against Israeli civilians and has been deemed a terrorist organization by the U.S. government.”
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  What is horrifying is that anyone takes such thinly-disguised disinformation seriously. Repeating such nonsense with a straight face is, one imagines, what makes Ms. Bronson so well-qualified for her job.
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