Israeli Arab Student Caught Spying for Hezbollah – Par For The Course!
[EDITOR’S NOTE BY ADINA KUTNICKI: While the PC poohbahs in Israel, as well as throughout the west, will tsk. tsk at the notion that an increasingly large portion of Israeli Arabs (Muslim Arabs for the most part, but Christian Arabs have been known to execute treacherous betrayals, too) have gone over to the dark side, so to speak, well, just ignore their dangerous jibber-jabber. Even more so, the fact that the Arab minority has full political, religious, civic, educational, medical and every right in between, still yet, more and more plot against the state, it proves that equality is not the issue. The issue is religious and ethic hatred. Simple as that. Keep reading….]
Israel-Academia-Monitor.com April 16, 2020
An Israeli student was indicted recently for spying for Hezbollah. She took photographs of the Israeli army vehicles and bases and sent them to a Hezbollah agent.
The Central District Attorney Office published on March 30, 2020, a press release announcing that the court in Lod indicted an Israeli student for having a “contact with a foreign agent, handing information to an enemy with the intent to harm the State of Israel’s security, and providing a service to a terrorist organization.” The student has lived in Beersheba in the last three years, but her place of study is undisclosed. In early 2018, she was contacted on Facebook by a person named “Ali Baba” from southern Lebanon. He requested that she provides information for Hezbollah.
The student allegedly provided him with photographs of army vehicles on Route Six; of the border near Rosh Hanikra; Haifa’s Bahai Gardens; the view from Stella Maris, the Haifa Port; Rambam Medical Center; army vehicles near Hebron; Hatzerim Air Force Base and Museum; Iron Dome Missile Defense System in Beer Sheva; and the Erez Border Crossing. Upon Ali’s request, the student attended a lecture by the military journalist Yossi Melman and asked Melman whether a war between Israel and Hezbollah is foreseeable. Melman responded that it was unlikely. She recorded Melman and sent it to Ali. Ali requested photographs of an army base in Ramat Aviv, but she refused. She was added to a WhatsApp group of Hizbollah activists named “Know Your Enemy,” run by an “Ali Hussein,” where she was requested to translate from Hebrew to Arabic articles dealing with Israel’s security. Eventually, on March 20, 2020, she was detained by the police. According to her next-door neighbors in Beer Sheva, she was quiet and pleasant, took her studies seriously, and studied around the clock.
In December 2017, an indictment was filed against Khaled Abu Judeh, a student at the Ashkelon College, and his half-brother Zahi, for the murder of the late Israeli soldier Ron Kokia in Arad. According to the charges, Khaled, a Hamas supporter, was the “brain” behind the plan and carried out the killing. On November 30, 2017, while Khaled was traveling in his vehicle in the city of Arad, he spotted the late Ron Yitzhak Kokia. He decided to carry out the attack and contacted Zahi. Khaled got out of the vehicle with a knife and walked toward the soldier who was sitting on a bench. Around 9:17 pm, Khaled approached the soldier from behind and stabbed him several times while trying to snatch his weapon. The soldier tried to prevent it, but Khaled managed to snatch the weapon and fled, leaving the soldier bleeding to death. After escaping from the scene, Khaled arrived at his home in the Kuseife area, where he met Zahi, who helped him to hide.
In August 2019, the General Security Service (GSS), in collaboration with the IDF and the Israeli police, thwarted a bomb attack intended to be carried out in Jerusalem, after they uncovered a ready-to-operate explosive device in Hebron, as well as the lab which created it. Several Hamas military squads have been exposed in the Judea and Samaria area, planning to carry out terrorist attacks. The activists were instructed to set up squads to carry out kidnaps, shootings, stabbings, to purchase arms, and to recruit additional activists. In June 2019, Tamer Rajah Rajabi, a student at the Polytechnic College in Hebron, was arrested. He was known as an activist in Hamas’ student organization, “al-Qutla al-Islamiyya.”
Also, in 2019, Amin Yassin, an Israeli Arab medical student in Slovakia and his neighbor were indicted for plotting together an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror attack. The two, who reside in the town Tamra in the Galilee, conspired to organize terrorist acts on behalf of the Islamic State. The two supported ISIS since 2014, and in 2018, conspired to murder Yassin’s cousin, a soldier in the US Army. They also discussed their hopes to blow up a booby-trapped car in a Jewish city in Israel. The two downloaded numerous files containing ISIS information and training manuals on weapons and terrorist attacks.
In February 2016, following a joint investigation by the police and the GSS, a student from Tel Sheva in the Negev was indicted for contacting Jihad activists from Arab states. Three weeks earlier, the student was arrested while on his way back from Jordan, where he studied and was taken to interrogation. During the interrogation, it emerged that before he left Jordan, he agreed to help a Tunisian activist to infiltrate into Israel in order to carry out together terrorist attacks. It also emerged that during this period, he had agreed to join a Salafi Jihadist organization.
A GSS report from 2009 on students’ involvement in terrorism, listed names of students from the Palestinian Territories, only some of the terrorist attacks were thwarted.
The GSS noted that terrorist organizations perceive universities and students as an “attractive target” for spotting and recruiting activists. Students are “intellectual, politically aware, motivated young people who possess leadership skills,” therefore can lead an operational activity.
