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News ID: 39674
Publish Date : 19 May 2017 - 21:10

Former Zionist Spy Chiefs Attack Trump for ‘Intel Leak’




WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Two former directors of the Zionist regime’s Mossad spy agency have attacked U.S. President Donald Trump for his alleged sharing of highly classified, Israeli-obtained "intelligence” with Russia.
President Trump was surrounded by controversy over the weekend, when The Washington Post alleged that he had divulged secret information with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak during a recent meeting at the White House. While the Post did not reveal the origin of that information, it said the provider had not given "permission” to the U.S. to share the info with Russia.
The New York Times, citing unnamed sources, later claimed that the intelligence had come from the occupied territories and was about the bomb-making capabilities of the Daesh terrorist group.
Danny Yatom, who led the regime’s spy organization from 1996 to 1998, said on Wednesday that Tel Aviv had to "punish the Americans” over the leakage.
He said the disclosure would be a "catastrophe” if it turned out that the U.S. president also compromised the Israeli "sources” in the Syrian city of Raqqah, Daesh's so-called headquarters in Syria, during the White House meeting with the Russians.
"If we will assess that our sources of intelligence are in danger due to the way it will be handled by the United States, then we will have to keep the very sensitive information close to our chests,” he further said.
He said the Zionist regime had to refrain from "transferring information” to Trump or just provide him with "partial” intelligence lest he would "endanger” Mossad’s sources.
It was not clear why the alleged sharing of the information with Russia, which has been actively fighting Daesh and other terrorist groups in Syria, would "endanger” the Israeli "sources.” But speculation has been raised that, in light of previous indications of quiet cooperation between Israel and Daesh, the Tel Aviv regime is now fearing a further revelation of its dealings with the internationally-designated terrorist group.
The unusually angry remarks by Yatom and similar comments by his predecessor, Shabtai Shavit, have only strengthened such speculation.
Shavit, who was the regime’s spy chief from 1986 to 1996, for his part, lambasted Trump and referred to him as a "bull in a china shop,” who he said could not run even a "corner shop.”
"Before he (Trump) makes any decision, he posts on Twitter. He tweets and then checks the responses in order to make his decision. Is that how you run a country?” Shavit said.
There have been reports that the regime offers medical treatment to militants wounded while operating in Syria in hospitals set up on the Golan Heights, Syrian territory that has been occupied by the regime. Back on April 9, Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tel Aviv would continue treating wounded militants from Syria as part of what he claimed to be a "humanitarian effort.”
The occupying regime also conducts military strikes against fighters from the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, who are, like Russia, helping the Syrian government fight Daesh.