Bruce Cashdan: The Shadowman ‘Down’!

Until recently, Israeli politician Bruce Kashdan was a reserved man who moved behind the scenes. According to it is said of him, he is “humble and loves to work in secret”, so he has no image in search engines, despite all his “dedication. And the man would have remained that way were it not for the fact that Israeli analysts did not provide the opportunity to bomb his prime minister’s front. Who is this man? Eventually, several Israeli press reports appeared criticizing Netanyahu’s personal ambitions, and how the latter took advantage of the normalization announcement with the United Arab Emirates to appear as the only politician who has the merit of achieving it, before the issue of the dispute with Security Minister Benny Gantz, who was not briefed by Netanyahu in the first place. On the date of the announcement. In addition to the above, the mission that was sent to the Emirates was criticized, because it contains only people close to Netanyahu, not those who worked for many years under the table!

The godfather of these “devotees” was Kashdan. In a report by Prince Oren, on the website “Walla”, defending the important role of Kashdan, to whom Netanyahu did not give his right, says: “… the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bruce Cashdan, is also Equipped with his American passport, he was touring the Gulf countries and establishing relations with each other. Open. Deputy Director General Nassim Bin Shitrit, who today is the Director General himself, traveled with the Judicial Advisor and the Director of Security of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to open official Israeli representations in Amman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The emirate of Abu Dhabi, the largest emirate, authorized his sister Dubai to receive the Israeli delegation thanks to him. He added: “But the latter was closed in 2010, when Netanyahu allowed the Mossad to kill a Hamas leader, Muhammad al-Mabhouh, there.” Despite the closure of Israeli representation, “Israeli officials and businessmen continued to visit the Gulf frequently,” referring to Kashdan.
In another report criticizing Netanyahu, Channel 12 journalist Aviv Bochensky asks, “Do you know what is causing the anger?” Credit is what causes outrage. I heard the President of the United States, Donald Trump, twice (!) Thanking his aides who made amends. Then Netanyahu came up and thanked those who had made peace. Not for his Israeli aides, but for those American aides … Do you want help? For example, Bruce Kashdan, who was appointed by the Israeli Foreign Ministry as ambassador to the Gulf to present Israeli interests there and open representations immediately after the signing of the Oslo Agreement, has been working to achieve this peace for thirty years. I don’t know if Kashdan was invited to the ceremony to announce the signing of the agreement.
This talk intersects with what was said by Haaretz newspaper security and intelligence analyst Yossi Melman, who criticized Netanyahu in a report dated 8/17/2020 and referred to Kashdan’s important role in normalization and his close relationship with the Gulf rulers, saying that “when Mossad fighters were poisoned by Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh, the prominent Hamas leader, in 2010, the envoy of the Foreign Minister Bruce Kashdan was also present there. The Mossad chief at the time, Meir Dagan, did not bother to inform him before the assassination, which he knew from foreign reports. Days later, he told Mohammed bin Zayed, like Shadhan, that he knew he had not been involved in the operation or that he had been informed of it.
This is just one of the examples that indicates the depth of trust that, according to Melman, “was built in the last twenty-five years between two cash workers, working under a private contract and whose official title is (the advisor), and the rulers of the Gulf Emirates. He adds, “Kashdan is a humble person who does not seek propaganda and works under the radar … There are those who take advantage of that, like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and do not take him with him in trips and meetings, while he will be replaced by the head of the Mossad, Yossi Cohen, and to a lesser extent, the head of the National Security Council (the National Security Council), Meir Bin Shabat.
But Kashdan, whose name appeared recently, has an outdated role that dates back to the period when the “Oslo Accords” were signed. On March 1, 2002, Israeli journalist Ben Caspet wrote a series of press reports with the title: “You do not understand the reality of the situation | Minister of Security (Binyamin Ben Elazar) to Prime Minister (Ariel Sharon): They are making a big mistake. ”In this group, Ben Caspit reviewed a series of meetings between Muhammad Dahlan, Muhammad Rashid, Defense Minister Elazar and other Israeli officials , which were held at the Sheraton Tower Hotel in the Ramat Gan settlement. Ben Caspit explains how the two Muhammads (Dahlan and Rashid) secretly arrived and how they entered the hotel via the service elevator, not the visitor elevator The aim of this meeting was to come up with a formula whereby Israel would ease the siege of “Abu Ammar” and in return, the latter would arrest the militants who assassinated the Israeli Minister of Tourism, Rehavam Zeevi, at the Regency Hotel in occupied Jerusalem.
In conclusion, the Israeli community was concerned and wanted at all costs to stop the guerrilla operations in the occupied territories. As for the two Muslims (Dahlan and Rashid), according to Bin Caspet’s description, they were “disappointed and tired.” However, this formula did not satisfy Sharon, prompting Israel to seek another way out. What does all this have to do with “our friend” Bruce? In a second report on the same page, under the caption “The Saudis have made a breakthrough,” Ben Caspit talks about how in recent months, the Americans have put heavy pressure on the Saudis after the bombing of the twin towers in New York, especially since it turned out that the largest number of those who carried out the operation were from Saudis. Among those pressures, Americans demanded the democratization of government, change in educational curricula, and an end to incitement. The real translation of these pressures was the normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel. On the one hand, the former would not find any embarrassment in that, while the latter would have used this normalization to show itself in a position of openness to peace, especially since the Americans criticized, for the first time, the siege that Israel practiced against Arafat. . But Sharon was also not encouraged by the right wing’s rejection of the idea. And here came the turn of Bruce Cashdan, who was requested by the Israeli Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, in the same week. In this context, Ben Caspit refers to the role of Kashdan, “a man from the Foreign Ministry who moves in complete secrecy and has been working for years in the Gulf Emirates, and knows Saudi officials very well.”

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