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Facebook The co-founder of a “lawfare” group with close ties to Israeli intelligence led a terror cell that carried out attacks on Palestinian civilians in the 1980s. Shurat HaDin lawyer and co-founder Aviel “Avi” Leitner was convicted of a series of violent attacks on Palestinians, Middle East Eyerevealed this month. Shurat HaDin claims to be a “civil rights” organization fighting terrorism in foreign courts, and that it is independent from the Israeli government. The legal office of the Israeli government’s National Security Council “saw the use of civil courts as a way to do things that they are not authorized to do,” the cable quoted its president saying. ....