Islamic State Claims To Have Captured An Israeli Arab Mossad Spy

An Islamic State publication released on February 12, 2015, claims Muhammad Said Ismail Musallam is a Mossad informant from Jerusalem.

Times Of Israel: Islamic State claims it captured Mossad spy in Syria

Propaganda magazine says East Jerusalemite, 19, confessed to being an Israeli informant; family denies he worked for Mossad

WNU Editor: There are too many contradictions in this story .... but I doubt that the Islamic State cares. In their minds they have a spy, and as we all know .... they do not treat their prisoners well.

More News On The Islamic State Claiming That They Have Captured A Mossad Spy

ISIS Claims to Have Caught an Israeli Arab Mossad Spy -- Arutz Sheva
Islamic State says it's holding 'Israeli spy' in Syria -- Rueters
ISIS claims to have captured Israeli Arab from Jerusalem working with Mossad -- Jerusalem Post
Islamic State claims to capture Jerusalem resident acting as Mossad spy -- YNet News
Family of Israeli Arab in ISIS captivity: He went to Syria, but he's no Mossad spy -- Haaretz

The Islamic State Is Now In Israel

Suspects arrested for allegedly setting up ISIS cell in Israel‏.. (photo credit:SHIN BET,Wikimedia Commons)

Reuters: Israel says cracks first local Islamic State cell

WNU Editor: This is the first Islamic State cell to be discovered in Israel, and I do not expect it to be the last.

More News On Israel's First Islamic Cell Being Uncovered

Shin Bet says it busted Israeli Islamic State cell -- Times of Israel
"Branch" of Islamic State in Israel: Seven Israeli-Arabs arrested and charged -- Israel Defense
Seven Israeli Arabs charged with trying to set up ISIS cell in Israel -- Haaretz
Self-proclaimed 'Islamic State chief of staff in Palestine' arrested -- YNet News
'ISIS in Palestine' cell members indicted in Haifa -- The Jerusalem Post
Eight Israeli Arab Men Are Charged With Aiding Islamic State -- NYT
Israeli Arabs Indicted for Forming Cell of Islamic State -- WSJ
Israeli intelligence says it has arrested first known local Islamic State cell -- FOX News/AP
Israel Charges Seven Israeli Arabs For Links To Islamic State Group -- IBTimes
Israel claims to have found first Palestinian Islamic State cell -- Middle East Monitor

Why Israel Loses No Sleep Over Islamic State

A masked man speaking in what is believed to be a North American accent in a video that Islamic State militants released in September 2014 is pictured in this still frame from video obtained by Reuters October 7, 2014.

Here’s Why Israel Loses No Sleep Over Islamic State -- Dimi Reider, Reuters

At first sight, it seems that Israel is just as preoccupied with the rise of Islamic State as anyone else. Israeli media report diligently on the extremist group’s assault on the Kurdish town of Kobani and run at least a story every few days on its atrocities. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu references Islamic State frequently, as do other Israeli ministers. And the stories of two Palestinian citizens of Israel who died fighting for the group have been recently featured in the press.

Still, Israel remains the least concerned and least directly threatened country in a region increasingly rocked by Islamic State’s advance. It certainly does not see the group as an external threat. Shocking though the events in Syria and Iraq are, Israel is far beyond the range of even the most sophisticated of Islamic State’s weapons. The group’s immediate territorial interests do not extend to anywhere near Israeli borders, and its support in areas adjacent to Israel is still negligible. What’s more, unlike many militant groups and states in the region, Islamic State has declared itself emphatically disinterested in intervening in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, preferring instead to draw its support from Sunni revanchism and introducing a semblance of order into war-torn regions of Iraq.

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My Comment:  Israel is on the Islamic State's radar .... but Israel is not their priority right now. Their focus is to consolidate the territory that is under their control, and to absorb additional Sunni dominated areas. After that .... who knows. For Israel .... they are going to stay out of this Arab fight .... and hope that they all end up killing each other off.