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ERIC SILVER
Israel Correspondent

n alien invader dropping
into the Middle East in the
first week of October would
ave assumed that Israeli
political and defense correspondents
have no sources of their own and are
wholly dependent on award-winning
international journalists with an inside
track.
Every story on the Mossad's bun-
gled assassination of a Hamas official
in Amman began, "According to for-
eign reports ..." or, "If Israel was
indeed behind the operation in Jordan

Ah

But in fact Israeli reporters are no
slouches. They have better sources and
tend to understand more than their
foreign brethren. Once the full horror
of the fiasco was recognized, they were
ahead of the field. But their television
and radio stations, newspapers and
magazines, acquiesced in an extraordi-
nary conspiracy of censorship and self-
restraint orchestrated by Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and
his spokesman, Shai Bazak.
At a secret meeting with Israeli edi-
tors, Netanyahu confronted them with
the dilemma of choosing between
their profession and their patriotism.
To a person, the editors played safe
and chose patriotism.
Like most secret meetings in these
parts, it became public (courtesy of
the "foreign" New York Times) within
hours.
Early in the affair, Netanyahu gave
the editors a detailed briefing on what
happened in Animan, on a strict "not-
for-use" basis. One editor, who made
his name as a military correspondent,
said: "You're trying to shut us up." A
witness tells me that the Prime
Minister answered with a smile: "Yes."
As they were leaving, Bazak
instructed them on four things they
"could not write" and reminded them
that every story had to be submitted
to the military censor before publica-
tion. The four things: that the two hit
men held in Jordan were Israelis,
despite their forged Canadian pass-
ports; that Netanyahu had ordered the
Mossad chief, General Danny Yatom,
to send an antidote to save the life of
the intended victim, Khaled Meshal;
that the prime minister had spoken to
King Hussein; and that the release of

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