Sa-Nur: Shin Bet `provocateurs' trying to move in

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/604585.html

By David Ratner

"A spokesman for residents of Sa-Nur, one of the West Bank settlements slated for evacuation, said yesterday that residents recently identified two suspected Shin Bet security service "provocateurs" who tried to infiltrate their ranks, and a third man whom residents also suspected was a Shin Bet agent and who suspended contact and left the community.

According to Yossi Dagan, after the government began to spread rumors that Sa-Nur residents were stockpiling weapons and suffering from a "Masada complex," there was an attempt to put agents in place to create provocations and taint Sa-Nur residents as extremists in the public's eyes.

Again according to Dagan, the agent whose cover was recently blown was a 30-year-old man from the Jerusalem area who came to the settlement with promises of donations and home renovations, and aroused suspicion because he managed to change his registered address in a single day - a seemingly impossible feat since an IDF order was issued forbidding registration of new residents in northern West Bank settlements."

This is something that Palestinians have complained of often but this has not been taken that seriously by world media.Now that the settlers are providing some additional testimony regarding Shin Bet agent-provocateurs and the tactic of "strategy of tension" and this is being reported in the mainstream Israeli press is it possible to discuss this aspect of how a state like Israel might actually be creating some of the "terror" in a cynical ploy to affect world opinion.

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