True to our forecast, but more than a decade after the events described in Chapter 25 of The Rabbi Who Knew Too Much, the truth finally came out. Mossad’s retiring Director, who was at his post when the Dubai hit took place, spoke to the press about the need to reveal the truth before peace between Israel and Dubai (UAE) could be established.
Here’s the story:
“Deeply involved in the shaping of Israel’s 2020 normalization agreements with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco, {the Director} said forging ties with the UAE had required ‘defusing the obstacle’ posed by Mossad’s assassination in a Dubai hotel room…of a senior Hamas figure, a Hamas arms importer also wanted by Israel for terrorism. ‘It was a mine we needed to defuse… It was on the table’ when the UAE negotiations got going. ‘We dealt with it. We removed the obstacle,’ he said.
‘There are operations that are exposed, to our sorrow,’ he said of incidents such as the Dubai hit. ‘When it’s exposed, it hurts, it’s unpleasant and it’s embarrassing.’”