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…because, they said, they were experiencing "technical pro- blems." It was not an explana- tion that was widely accepted among Israeli officials. "If you are fed from the crumbs of others according to their moods, this is very in- convenient," noted Meir Amit, former head of the Mossad, Israel's external in- telligence agency, who now heads Israel's General Satel- lite Corporation. "If you have your own independent capa- bility, you can climb o...…