A man allegedly walked through Berlin last spring, systematically scouting a kosher supermarket and a Jewish food merchant. He was allegedly mapping access to Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, and helping procure a weapon to execute Volker Beck, a prominent German politician.

German federal prosecutors have now charged 54-year-old Danish citizen Ali S. and Afghan national Tawab M. with preparing murders and arson attacks on German soil. Investigators believe they were operating on behalf of the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

The detail that should have triggered emergency sessions in the Bundestag is how Germany found out. The initial warning did not come from German domestic intelligence, but from the Mossad, with Volker Beck stating plainly that without Israeli intelligence, he would presumably be dead. A public figure who spent decades championing German-Israeli relations was placed under the highest level of........

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