Israeli Spy Under the Guise of a Journalist

Kawther Salam

In the hours following midnight on last Sunday, the Egyptian authorities arrested an Israeli at the border of Rafah together with members of a drug gang which smuggles Africans into Israel. Yotam Feldman, who is suspected of being an Israeli spy, was arrested while trying to cross into Israel with a number of illegal African migrants. He had no identification papers.

During the questioning by the Egyptian police, he claimed to be a journalist and that he was preparing a report about the smuggling of Africans into Israel.

Feldman had no press card and no ID which could prove his profession or identity. Real journalists are obliged to carry their press identification at all times, and an ID when they are on an official journalistic mission.

Feldman got 10 days of unpaid vacation from his work as a journalist before his arrest. He left his work to go to an unknown destination without further information and without telling his colleagues where he was heading. This is exactly the behavior of the Israeli intelligence elements while perpetrating their secret and underground work.

In Israel, many intelligence elements have infiltrated journalists and journalism. Some of them are engaged by the military, by the police or the civil administration intelligence services. Others are engaged with the death squads which operate in the West Bank and East of Jerusalem. Others are engaged by Mossad death squads. It is enough to write a novel to receive the title of being a journalist in Israel. Journalism is a good profession for an Israeli spy to cover all their dirty missions.

During the Al-Aqsa Intifada, many Israelis who represented themselves as “journalists” were at the same time engaged in military operations of the IDF in the West Bank. These infiltrators, but also many well-known Israeli journalists would befriend Palestinian journalists because of our better sources, in order to use them. When the usefulness of these Palestinian colleagues ended, the jewish journalists would treat them as enemies or even less than dogs.

Israeli death squads which operate in the West Bank and East of Jerusalem.

Last month, over 28 elements of a Mossad death squad were involved in the murder of Al-Mabhouh in Dubai. Was there also a “journalist” among them? I mention this because it is generally known that israeli spies have big interest in “working” in Arab countries. During this and last year, networks of spies have been dismantled in Lebanon, and recently several people were arrested in Egypt under suspicion of spying for Israel, and similar stories are known from other Arab countries. Israel has spies in every nation where it has a representation.

Last Monday, one day after the arrest of suspected Israeli spy Yotam Feldman at the Egyptian border, the Israeli troops shot an Egyptian citizen. The Egyptian authorities did not complain against the murder of its citizen, who was known as a cigarette merchant. Feldman will be given back unencumbered despite the harsh sentences against espionage in Egypt.

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