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Mossad’s Belly Dance

Mossad’s Belly Dance

Israel’s spies and the Arab Gulf states part the curtain

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In mid-August, Yossi Cohen, the chief of Mossad, flew into the United Arab Emirates. That alone would not be news to those who follow the convoluted, often clandestine, machinations of Middle East politics: As Marc Polymeropoulos, a former senior CIA operations officer who spent years in the region put it, “the intelligence relationships between Israel …

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