Posted on 01/06/2006 10:39:30 PM PST by F14 Pilot
Tel Aviv - Israeli police and the Shin Bet internal security organization have arrested the former head of a local council in the Galilee on suspicion of spying for Iran, local media reported Friday night after a ban on publication was lifted.
Jaris Jaris, 57, head of the Fasuta local council from May 2001 to November 2003, was detained on December 12, after police discovered that he had been recruited by Iran and asked to use his political contacts to infiltrate the Israeli political system.
Police said Jaris fled Israel for Lebanon in 1970 after being caught operating a cell of the Palestinian Fatah organization, which was then banned by Israel. He returned to the country in 1996 and in late 2004 met a man in Cyprus who he admitted was from Iranian intelligence.
According to the police, Jaris was asked to infiltrate the Israeli political system, create political contacts and join an existing Israeli political party. He became a member of the dovish Meretz- Yahad party and expressed interest in becoming a member of the Knesset (parliament).
The report on Jaris was cleared for publication after a municipal judge in Acre, northern Israel, accepted a request by the Ha'aretz daily for the military censor to lift a ban on publication of the affair.
Well, this shows them to be less mentally defecative than watching Ahmadinejad's antics would suggest. Still not good enough, at least on this occasion: their man got caught.
They're like roaches. For every one you see out in the open, there's a dozen in the shadows.
Let us spray.
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Another story showing the lunacy of allowing Arabs in Israel to become citizens, vote and serve in government. Meanwhile, not a single Jew can even expect to LIVE in an Arab-ceded region without being shot, stabbed or having a rocket lobbed his way. And this is just fine with the Oslo/Road Map crowd.
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