Israel/Palestine

On Sunday, Perry's reporting made it all the way to Israel's parliament, where MK Meirav Cohen (Yesh Atid) asked Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara to open a criminal investigation into those responsible for leaking what appeared to be forged documents.

"There must be a price for lying," Cohen wrote in her request. "And those spreading blatant lies intended to serve political needs must pay it - whether it is junior ranks, and even more so when it comes to senior ranks."

Some of the Israeli outlets that first highlighted Perry's reporting made the decision last week to issue retractions, including the popular current events program "Hazinor" on Channel 13.

It subsequently opened an investigation into claims Perry had made regarding his professional and military experience. The program discovered that he had seemingly lied about, among other things, being a professor at Tel Aviv University and participating in the famous IDF 1976 Entebbe rescue operation.

When a journalist from "Hazinor" confronted Perry over the phone about his résumé claims, Perry lashed out, saying: "You all don't know how to be supportive. You are such a backwards people, full of hate.
"If it wasn't for Hamas," he added, mysteriously, "Israel would be destroyed and the people scattered all over the Diaspora. That's the reason I am not there and thousands like me aren't there."