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30 Dec 20, 5 tweets, 3 min read
As a scholar & student of terrorism, how should I feel about the fact that a member of Editorial Board of @terpolv immediately blocked me after ONE Tweet where I mentioned the role senior Israeli officers played in deadly #terrorist campaign in 1980s & US media silence about it?
I should of course note the irony of a scholar blocking me after I tweeted thread about censorship (Israeli military censor killed story that would have revealed role of senior Israeli officers in #terrorist car bombing campaign) & self-censorship (US media silence about this)
I have asked Prof. Chernov Hwang @Julie_C_Hwang to explain why she blocked me. No reply. This is SO disappointing. But, sadly, quite revealing & unsurprising when you realize the absolute SILENCE amongst US "terrorism experts" about Bergman's revelations (3 years ago now!)
Several years ago @hoffman_bruce blocked me after an article I published in Foreign Policy magazine that was critical of him (& specifically his exclusion of US support for death squads from his work on "terrorism.") Hoffman is Editor in Chief of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
Here is article in question. A couple days after it was published Hoffman blocked me. So troubling, petty &, alas, so revealing of unwillingness of so many "terrorism experts" to even discuss whether or not "we" might, at times, engage in "terrorism" too: foreignpolicy.com/2012/08/20/ter…

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31 Dec 20
Dec 31, 1981: Tomorrow Beirut stadium will be bombed, PLO leadership decimated, Arafat dead. Along w/ countless civilians
This is the story of the kind of #terrorism we never hear about: where Palestinians are victims, not perpetrators. Israelis perpetrators, not victims
THREAD
On Jan 1, PLO would celebrate anniversary of its founding. Defense Minister Ariel Sharon saw opportunity to get rid of whole leadership in one fell swoop. In late Dec., agents recruited by Meir Dagan placed remotely controlled explosive devices in stadium. But that was not all
A secret Israeli unit had also prepared “three vehicles - a truck loaded with a ton and a half of explosives and two Mercedes sedans with 550 pounds each.” On Jan 1, members of the FLLF would drive & park the vehicles in front of the stadium.
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30 Dec 20
In 1985 Pollard passed on satellite pictures that were used by Israel in its bombing of PLO headquarters in Tunis (see here, from CIA's official Assessment of the Pollard Espionage Case). At the time, one US official called it an act of #terrorism! THREAD
archives.gov/files/declassi…
The raid killed around 60 people, mostly civilians. On a visit to Tunisia a few weeks later, under Secretary of State John Whitehead used the term "terrorism" to refer to ("deplore") the bombing. That did not go well for him ....
These are the (graphic, terrifying) words used by Kapeliouk as he described the aftermath of the bombing in the pages of Yediot Ahronot at the time:
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28 Nov 20
Brennan was not DCI in 2010-12... BUT there is a larger point here:
US officials (& the US media) simply never, EVER, use the term "terrorism" to refer to actions by US allies, and especially NOT by Israel.

So despite the hypocrisy, Brennan's statement is quite extraordinary
Brennan is of course not in government anymore. To my knowledge (I might be wrong?) the LAST TIME a US official used the term "terrorism" to refer to Israel was in 1985. That's actually a funny story...
In 1985, on a visit to Tunisia, under Sec of State John Whitehead used the term "terrorism" to refer to the bombing of Tunis (where the PLO had its headquarters) by Israel. Note that this bombing was condemned as an "armed aggression" by the UNSC
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28 Nov 20
Crazy suggestion:

If a team of armed Iranian operatives had covertly entered Israel & killed its top nuclear weapons scientist, world leaders would not be "mum"

In fact, every single Western leader would have denounced it as a despicable, evil act of terrorism

Oh well...
Note: objective of #Fakhrizadeh assassination appears to be to provoke violent response by Iran, which would serve as pretext for war.
Israel (Sharon) did something very similar to justify invasion of Lebanon in 1980s
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Also: if the US or ISR have the right to assassinate #Suleimani & now #Fakhrizadeh , does it mean that Lebanon had the right to assassinate Eitan, Dagan & Sharon, who conducted deadly #terrorist bombing campaign in 1980s? If not, why not? See: mondoweiss.net/2018/05/remark…
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27 Nov 20
If Iran sent agents to assassinate the top American (or Israeli) nuclear scientist (& this attack took place on US or Israeli soil) does anyone doubt that this would be immediately described (& condemned) as an act of terrorism? nytimes.com/2020/11/27/wor…
& I'll ask again: if the US or ISR have the right to assassinate #Suleimani & now #Fakhrizadeh , does it mean that Lebanon had the right to assassinate Eitan, Dagan & Sharon, who conducted deadly #terrorist bombing campaign in 1980s? If not, why not? See: mondoweiss.net/2018/05/remark…
On this issue, see the following Thread:
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25 Nov 20
In 1981 two @YediotAhronot journalists investigated remarkable story: senior @IDF officers had created & were running #terrorist group that was behind bombings in Lebanon.
Israeli military censor killed story
Terrorist campaign continued for years
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mondoweiss.net/2019/10/it-is-…
The 2 journalists are Yigal Sarna and Anat Tal-Shir. They worked for Yediot Ahronot. The existence of this story (& of the censor's decision to kill it) was mentioned by David Remnick in his profile of Meir Dagan for the @NewYorker in 2012: ImageImage
Remnick's piece is here: newyorker.com/magazine/2012/… A few days later, on the blog of
@972mag , Noam Sheizaf mentioned Remnick's story and quoted Sarna as agreeing that "the censorship [on these stories] has been on for years. Horrifying things were done there, not just planned" ImageImage
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