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Yossi Melman

Yossi Melman is an Israeli commentator on security and intelligence affairs for the Israeli news website Walla and the co-author with CBS News Correspondent Dan Raviv of Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel's Secret Wars. They blog at IsraelSpy.com.

The headstone of the grave of Ben Zygier, the Australian whom local media have identified as the man who died in an Israeli prison in 2010 and who may have been recruited by Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, is pictured at a Jewish cemetery in Melbourne February 14, 2013. Israel broke its official silence on Wednesday over the reported suicide in jail of an Australian immigrant recruited to its spy service Mossad, giving limited details on a closely guarded case. After appeals by local media chafing at Is

Prisoner X, the Mossad andThe Futility of Censorship

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) is seen during the launch of his Likud Beiteinu party campaign ahead of the upcoming January 22 national elections, in Jerusalem December 25, 2012. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Israeli Elections Elicit Little Hope for Change

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) shares a laugh with his aide-de-camp Major-General Yohanan Locker during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem November 4, 2012. Israel has stopped the unapproved influx of African migrants across its border with Egypt, Netanyahu said on Sunday after months of intensive counter-measures on the once porous desert frontier. REUTERS/Gali Tibbon/Pool (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY IMMIGRATION)

Netanyahu Sought to Provoke, Not Attack, Iran in 2010

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Iranian soldiers shout anti-U.S. slogans during the anniversary ceremony of Iran's Islamic Revolution at the Khomeini shrine in the Behesht Zahra cemetery, south of Tehran, February 1, 2012. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (IRAN - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY ANNIVERSARY)

Is Iranian Response to Israel Rational, Reasonable?

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits across from Defence Minister Ehud Barak during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem March 11, 2012. Israeli aircraft on Sunday killed three Palestinians medical sources in Gaza said, and militants fired rockets into Israel in a third day of cross-border attacks. "We are at the height of this round (of violence), " Netanyahu told his cabinet. "We have exacted a heavy price from them and we will continue to act as needed." REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (JERUSALEM - T

Netanyahu and Barak Gambling With Israeli Lives, US Relations

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