The Secret Intelligence Branch Of The Shin Bet

Chapter three of Eyal Press’ Beautiful Souls follows Avner Wishnitzer, an Israeli combat soldier serving in the occupied territories during the Second Intifada. In the 6-Day War of 1967, Israel captured the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and has since kept the land under an Israeli military occupation. In 1987 to 1991, a Palestinian uprising involving resistance and civil disobedience, known as the First Intifada, occurred in the occupied territories. Consequently, Israel deployed many soldiers into the occupied territories, and an estimated 1,674 people were killed in total. The Second Intifada, a much more violent Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories, transpired from 2000 until 2005. In response, Israel enacted Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale military operation, in 2002 to stop the terrorist attacks and suicide bombings of the Second Intifada. An approximate 4,426 people were killed in the Second Intifada. Avner Wishnitzer’s public refusal to serve in the occupied territories was worth getting kicked out of Sayeret Matkal and being disgraced by Israeli society because it made people question the occupation and the treatment towards Palestinians. Even if Avner had been my father, I would have condoned his choices because I could create my own reputation in the military. Additionally, the current controversy over the Israeli occupation legitimizes his stance and actions for many Israeli citizens.

In addition, I will examine the current state of political and human rights in Israeli occupied West Bank and analyze how they are approaching a level of apartheid. Finally, I will summarize the effects of these social tensions between Israel and Palestinians in the terms of how potential open conflict could reignite.

Since 1947, when the Central Intelligence Agency was created, the United States has had an organization that has the sole purpose of conducting covert operations, collecting information, and providing that same information to the respective personnel. Although, this, by some, has been considered conflictual as the CIA is handling those three actions. It is considered that this may be a conflict of interest in a means of, the same people that are collecting information, creating a bias opinion, are conducting the covert action being carried out. This could create a bias work environment. Due to the professionalism and 60 years of success to show for it, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Clandestine Service (NCS) conducting

For the past five years, I have been a proactive advocate for the safety, security, and the future of Israel. As a motivated young professional there is no opportunity I seek more than serving as a Goldman Bridge Fellow.

The documentary, Promises, introduced the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the perspective of seven children. The film’s initiator, B.Z. Goldberg, initially interviews seven children, but gradually convinces the children to meet with peers of the opposite side in the conflict. Finally, by synthesizing the opinions of the children, the film achieves a lasting message at the end of the film -- everyone involved in the conflict is a human being, and thus one’s religion does not reflect his or her personality. Rather than enforcing this message upon the participants, the film has the children discover what it is like to be the person they hate -- a discovery which rather lingers throughout the subconscious of the film.

She realised that people of any age will do anything to assist what they are fighting for. Furthermore, Stack lived through a portion of the second Palestinian intifada. During this struggle countless suicide bombers came by day and Israeli tanks acquired Palestinian land in the West Bank by night. Stack describes this period of time as complete chaos, where, “violence fed violence. Blood washed blood”. Stack knew a Palestinian woman who was a victim of the brutality during the first intifada. She was tortured during the days of this time period for being part of an underground Palestinian political movement. Stack’s Palestinian friend was “tortured for days, beaten, abused, threatened with rape” by a barbaric Israeli interrogator. Although she faced strong hostility from the interrogator, she also faced kindness in the form of an anonymous Israeli man who “sat with her hour after dark hour” and attempted to help her get through the pain. This shows that an individual can interact with both negative and positive things throughout a conflict. Stack later faced a conflict when she wrote a feature about how the body parts of suicide bombers had caused a policy debate in Israel. This feature caused Stack to receive hundreds of hate mails regarding as to how she “humanized [suicide bombers]” by writing about them as actual people with families.

Muller writes, “killing is often misinterpreted in film,” due to movies portraying justified homicide easily. In actuality, even the death of one person is detrimental to one’s emotions. Additionally, the distance between enemies and

1) In regards to question number one involving if we - as societal citizens - have a Natural Right to Privacy, I believe the answer is no - due to understanding equivocal terminology. For example, we all know that the National Security Agency (NSA), The Law Enforcement Community (LE), and the Intelligence Community (IC), all routinely collect information on us - on a daily basis. Such information involving: emails, video and voice chats, videos, photos, Voiceover Internet Protocols [e.g. Skype, Google Chrome, Oovoo, Teamspeak, & etc], file transfers, retail products [e.g. Home Security Cameras & Home Thermostats] and social networking sites; including but not limited to soliciting the following information to second and third party vendors [e.g. private companies & contractors]. With that being said, we are now living in an institutionalized society - where privacy is null and void.

With the ever-expanding enigma that is the internet and technology, there is the constant question of privacy; how does the US monitor its citizens or foreign nations? Edward Snowden, a man who risked himself to bring details about the United States National Security Agency to light; the National Security Agency (NSA) is the government agency responsible for surveillance on foreign countries as well as the US itself. How do these two tie together? Or how did the NSA let Snowden, or others before him, get into through their security and publicize classified information?

I) Yoni Netanyahu, a member of the elite Israeli army was one of the most dedicated soldiers

The United States Secret Service is one of the oldest federal law enforcement agencies in the country, and one of the most elite in the world. Secret Service’s mission is to protect the president, vice president and others; and investigations into crimes against the financial infrastructure of the United States (USSS History. (n.d.).

Headquarters of the National Security Agency (NSA), employees a multitude of employees consisting of computer scientists, analysists, linguists, voice interceptors and mathematicians. (Factory, T.S. Nova, 2009) The scope of what happens behind closed doors at the National Security Agency is mind boggling. The average citizen could not even begin to apprehend the complex work these professional complete in a normal work week. The employees at the National Security Agency monitor terrorist by intercepting and interpreting phone calls, e-mails, webmail, monitors social media and website sites. Nova’s program “The Spy Factory” explores how safe is our county when it comes to terrorism. Nova brings up some interesting facts that are chilling and make you think, are we really safe in America?

The interview was given in light of the recent conflict in Gaza which is now entering its fourth week. The Israeli offensive, dubbed “Operation Protective Edge,” is the result of a chain of events which started with the killing of two Palestinian teenagers on May 15. Following this, on June 12, three Israeli teenagers were abducted. This prompted the IDF to launch “Operation Brother's Keeper” in search of the boys and as a crack-down on perceived terrorist threats from Hamas. Ten Palestinians were killed and hundreds

The format of this source is a primary journal news article, published by The Slate Group on 4th November, 2004. Warren Bass, the author, is a senior editor at The Slate and the author of ‘Support any friend: Kennedy’s Middle East and the Making of the U.S. Israel-Alliance’, and hence, is highly credible in a field that excels in historical writing. Bass discusses Yasser Arafat’s legacy, durability and the impacts he contributed to Palestine as a ‘terrorist pioneer,’ addressing both the Oslo I Accords and the PLO’s establishment. This source is extremely useful to the Historical Investigation Process, exemplifying the legacy of Yasser Arafat through evaluation of both positive and critical interpretations and providing relevant information

The graphic novel Palestine, published by Maltan journalist Joe Sacco in the early ‘90s, is a journalistic piece that represents his recollections of two months spent talking to and living with Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. The casual narrative style, which some might say is too shallow for such heavy subject matter, in fact allows Sacco to avoid many of the pit falls that have made Western reporting on non-Western conflicts unhelpful at the very least and more often incredibly damaging.