{"id":358449,"date":"2010-02-22T16:15:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T21:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23032"},"modified":"2010-02-22T16:15:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T21:15:12","slug":"the-truth-about-mossad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/358449","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Mossad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mossad.gov.il\/Eng\/About\/values.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23033\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Backr_About_Values_Eng-300x132.jpg\" alt=\"Mossad Charter\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a>The recent, outlandish assassination in Dubai may prove the most damaging yet in the Mossad&#8217;s history of high-profile, bungled operations. Ian Black asks how it squandered its reputation for ruthless brilliance, for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/feb\/19\/ian-black-mossad-dubai\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Last November, a sharp-eyed  Israeli woman named Niva Ben-Harush was alarmed to notice a young man attaching something that looked suspiciously like a bomb to the underside of a car in a quiet street near Tel Aviv port. When police  arrested him, he claimed to be an  agent of the <a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Mossad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/mossad\">Mossad<\/a> secret service  taking part in a training exercise: his story turned out to be true \u2013 though the bomb was a fake. No comment was forthcoming from the Israeli prime minister&#8217;s office, which formally speaks for \u2013 but invariably says nothing about \u2013 the country&#8217;s world-famous espionage&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent, outlandish assassination in Dubai may prove the most damaging yet in the Mossad&#8217;s history of high-profile, bungled operations. Ian Black asks how it squandered its reputation for ruthless brilliance, for the Guardian: Last November, a sharp-eyed Israeli woman named Niva Ben-Harush was alarmed to notice a young man attaching something that looked suspiciously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}