מתוך התקשורת:
מנהיג הציבור החרדי הליטאי, הרב דב לנדו, נפגש עם בני משפחות חטופים, התפלל עימם ושוחח איתם על סוגיית המאמצים לשחרור יקיריהם.
בעיתון “משפחה” פורסם מחר (חמישי) תיעוד מהמפגש במהלכו נשאל הרב לנדו על החשש של ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו לקדם עסקת חטופים בשל הסיבה שעסקה כזו עלולה להביא לסכנה ביטחונית.
“אני לא איש של פוליטיקה. אולי אם היו חוטפים את הבן של ראש הממשלה, מה הוא היה עושה?”, תהה הרב לנדו.
מדובר בהתבטאות ראשונה של מנהיג הציבור הליטאי בסוגיה.
Reprinted with permission.
Bush I (George H.W.) may have murdered an important Israeli, Amiram Nir, so that he wouldn’t reveal damning information regarding the Iran Contras affair.
I don’t know anything more and I haven’t read the Hebrew books on this. But this bombshell can’t stay solely on Wikipedia and ToI, so I record it here, as well. The fact that his son, very much a part of the Israeli Deep State royalty believes this is significant, in my opinion (as I repeated here).
Quoting ToI:
Twenty-five years after a famed Israeli counterterrorism operator died in a mysterious plane crash in Mexico, his son alleged on Friday that the death was an assassination, and pointed the finger of blame at the United States.
Amiram Nir was the counterterrorism adviser to former Israeli prime ministers Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir in the 1980s, and played a key role in the Iran-Contra affair, a political scandal which involved officials in the Reagan administration secretly facilitating the sale of arms to Iran, including by Israel, in breach of an embargo. Nir died in late 1988 in a plane crash in Mexico. His demise has long sparked conspiracy theories, including unsubstantiated allegations that he was silenced because he was about to spill details of his role in Iran-Contra that might prove hugely embarrassing to George H.W. Bush, who was Reagan’s vice president and was soon to be inaugurated as president.
Nimrod Nir, Amiram’s son, told Israel’s Channel 2 news on Friday night (Hebrew) that he has spent the last few years investigating his father’s death, and concluded that the plane crash was no accident. Nimrod Nir said he believed his father had been assassinated by someone who didn’t want him to tell the truth. Asked by the interviewer whether he thought responsibility for the killing reached the level of “candidates for the US presidency… Are those the immediate suspects from your point of view?” he replied, “Absolutely.”
The TV report featured a lengthy clip of George H.W. Bush being interviewed by Dan Rather over what he knew of the Iran-Contra scandal, including over his presence during a visit to Israel in meetings with Amiram Nir. Bush had denied all knowledge of Iran-Contra during the 1988 presidential campaign.
“Nir had briefed Bush” about Iran-Contra, the Israeli journalist and author Ronen Bergman wrote in a 2008 book, “The Secret War with Iran. “Nir could have implicated the incoming president. The fact that Nir was killed in a mysterious chartered airplane crash in Mexico,” Bergman went on, “has given rise to numerous conspiracy theories.”
In the years after Amiram Nir’s death, a “systematic series” of burglaries took place in the homes and offices of people connected to Iran-Contra, including the home of Nir’s widow, Bergman wrote in the book. “To this day it is not clear if Amiram Nir was murdered,” Bergman wrote, “and if he was, by whom.”
I wonder what Nir’s widow Judy (of Yediot Aharonot) thinks.
