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Prisoner X3: Sexual Predator Lurking in Prime Minister’s Office

Prisoner X3: Sexual Predator Lurking in Prime Minister’s Office

April 23, 2018 By Richard Silverstein Leave a Comment

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#MeToo, Israel-style

Haaretz reported today that a senior member of the Israeli prime minister’s office (PMO) serving in a “sensitive” post, secretly received an “extended sentence” for serial sexual abuse of several women working with him. He was prosecuted, tried and imprisoned in secret.  He is in prison under an assumed name.  The report indicated the abuse occurred “years ago.”

Use of the term “sensitive” in an Israeli context usually indicates that the individual served in a high level intelligence or military role. If so, then this individual could have compromised Israeli security in the midst of his sexual improprieties.

Revealing his name is barred in Israel, though outside it. I urge any Israeli who knows more about this case to contact me.

The excuses offered for protecting the predator and his identity are ludicrous and typical for Israel’s male supremacist society:

  1. Secrecy will protect the women who were his victims
  2. The perpetrator might be killed in prison if his identity was known

It is nonsense to claim that female victims need protection in this manner. Most of all, they need justice. Only exposure and shaming of those who commit such crimes will deter other predators from following in their footsteps.  Further, there are ways to protect the identity of victims while revealing the nature of the crime committed against them. Refusing to do so constitutes a cover-up in which the rights of women are subjugated to the alleged good of the country.

But clearly the police are far more interested in protecting the predator, as they note in claiming he might be killed. There are many Israeli men in prison for abusing women. Few are harmed, even fewer killed. There is little reason to believe this man would suffer such a fate.

It does suggest though that the Israeli prison service can’t protect its own inmates. Security in prisons is so poor that any old inmate harboring a grudge against any other could exact his pound of flesh at will. The prison service here exposes its own ineptitude.

natan eshel sexual abuser

Netanyahu accompanied by then-chief of staff, Natan Eshel

The Haaretz article omits what is perhaps an even more important reason for secrecy: this is the second lurid sex scandal to beset the PMO in the past two years. Earlier, Netanyahu’s long-time buddy and chief of staff, Natan Eshel, engaged in a pathetic pattern of repeated abuse against a female staff member he supervised. This included taking pictures of her beneath her skirt, among others.

Now comes yet another example of sexual impropriety run rampant in the office of the leader of the nation. One wonders what it must be like to be a woman working for the prime minister. Many of them must feel like fish in a barrel.

As for the term “Prisoner X3,” many of you will remember that I reported the case of an Israeli who committed suicide in an Israeli prison cell. In an effort to throw me off the trail, an ex-Shabak agent serving as a source at the time told me he was an Iranian general. He was, in fact, Ben Zygier.

There is another secret prisoner serving a 20-year sentence in an Israeli prison (Prisoner X2). He too serves his sentence under an assumed name and his identity may not be revealed. Formerly, he was a Mossad agent who directed the agency’s Iran desk.

Today’s story makes it three, hence the moniker, Prisoner X3.

Israel is one of the few nations calling itself a western democracy which imprisons so many under such covert circumstances. Clearly, national security as defined by male State authorities trumps the rights of women to be safe in the workplace.

Another Day, Another Mossad Assassination

Another Day, Another Mossad Assassination

April 21, 2018

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The source’s above statement and reporting by Israel’s Channel 10 confirms that al Batsh was also killed by the Mossad. Yesterday, Israel’s Mossad assassinated Fadi al Batsh (English language report), a Palestinian Senior Lecturer in the Electrical Engineering Section, British Malaysian Institute, University of Kuala Lumpur (UniKL). He was originally from Gaza and earned his […]

After Winning Genesis Award, Natalie Portman Refuses It in Light of Gaza Massacre

After Winning Genesis Award, Natalie Portman Refuses It in Light of Gaza Massacre

April 21, 2018

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The Russian-Jewish oligarchs who founded the Genesis Prize with their plundered wealth, scored an own goal this week.  The 2018 recipient of the award, film actress Natalie Portman, essentially turned it down by announcing that she would not travel to Israel at this time due to her “distress” at the IDF murders along the Gaza “border.”  […]

Starbucks Hires Lily-White ADL for Racial Sensitivity Training

Starbucks Hires Lily-White ADL for Racial Sensitivity Training

April 20, 2018

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Tamika Mallory, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter, and bete noir of the Israel Lobby, has called out Starbucks for engaging the ADL to run the racial sensitivity training which the company is rolling out for its 8,000 stores next week. The unprecedented development in the chain’s corporate history follows an ugly racial incident in […]

Trump and the “Breeders”

Trump and the “Breeders”

April 19, 2018

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Pres. Trump today went back to war against California, the state he seems to love most to hate.  As always, the fight is over immigration and the sanctuary city concept, both of which he detests.  Cities around the country (not just in California) are defying the federal government’s attempts to criminalize the act of being […]

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