Mossad Comes to America: Death Squads by Invitation

The principle propaganda mouthpiece of the Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (PMAJO), the Daily Alert (DA), has come out in full support for Israel’s practice of extra-judicial, extra-territorial assassination.

In the face of world-wide governmental condemnation (except from the Zionist-occupied White House and US Congress), the PMAJO slavishly backs any brutal murder committed by the Israeli secret police anywhere in the world and at anytime. The recent assassination of Hamas leader, Mahmoud Mabhouh, in Dubai is a case in point. The PMAJO has defended all of Mossad’s criminal actions leading up to the murder, including extensive identity theft and the stealing or falsification of passports and official documents from several European countries, presumably allied to the Zionist state. Among the Mossad agents who entered Dubai to kill Mabhouh, twelve agents used stolen or forged British passports, three Australian, three French, one German and six Irish. These agents assumed the identity of European citizens in order to commit murder in a sovereign nation.

Once again the PMAJO demonstrate that its first loyalty is to the Israeli secret police, even when they violate the sovereignty of major US allies. No doubt the PMAJO would readily support the Israeli Mossad, even if it were shown to have used U.S. documents to assassinate Mabhouh. In fact, two of the 26 Israeli assassins, carrying fake Irish and fake British passports, are known to have entered the United States after the killing and may still be here.

The position adopted by the Daily Alert and the PMAJO in defense of Israel’s international terrorist act followed several lines of attack, which will be discussed below. These include: (1) blaming the victim, (2) claiming that extra-judicial, extra territorial murders are legal, (3) minimizing the murder of ‘one’ individual, (4) deflecting attention from the Zionists by blaming ‘other Arabs’, (5) favorably comparing Mossad assassinations to US killings in Afghanistan, (6) trivializing and relativizing world condemnation, (7) citing “self-defense”, (8) praising the high tech ‘operational details’ of the assassination and (9) discrediting the Dubai police investigators rather than the Israeli perpetrators.

Abridged articles, cited in the Daily Alert, have appeared in the op-ed pages of several US, UK, Canadian and Israeli newspapers, as well as in right-wing magazines like Forbes and Commentary. The mainline Zionist propaganda technique is to avoid any discussion of Israel’s egregious crimes against sovereignty, due process, international law and the personal security of individuals. In doing so, the Daily Alert adopts the propaganda techniques common to all totalitarian regimes practicing state terrorism.

(1) Blaming the Victim

On February 22, the Daily Alert (DA) headlined two articles, which were entitled: “Killed Hamas Official betrayed by Associates says Dubai Police Chief” and “Hamas: Assassinated Operative put Himself at Risk”. The DA forgot to mention that Israeli secret police had been tracking their prey for over a month (having failed to assassinate him on six previous attempts) and that the Dubai Police Chief was not blaming Hamas officials but was in the process of accumulating evidence, witness statements, videos and documents proving the Israeli identities of the assassins. Needless to say, if we were to accept the American Zionists’ argument that any leading opponent of Israel, who travels without an army of bodyguards, is “putting himself at risk“, then we must acknowledge that ours is a lawless world where Israeli hit squads are free to commit murder anywhere, any time.

(2) Extra-Judicial, Extra territorial Murder is “Legal” (At least if the killers are Mossad)

The February 22 and February 24 issues of the DA include two articles arguing that Israel’s practice of extra-judicial, extra-territorial murder is legal. One article is entitled, “The Legality of Killing of Hamas Mahmoud al Mabhoud” and the other, “The Proportionate Killing of Mahmoud al Mabhoud”. These avoid any reference to international law, which emphatically rejects cross-border, state-sponsored murders. Legality, for the PMAJO, is whatever the Israel’s secret police apparatus deems expedient in pursuit of its goal of eliminating leaders who oppose its colonial occupation and expropriation of Palestinian lands. If Israel’s extra-judicial, extra-territorial murder of an adversary in Dubai is legal, why not assassinate opponents in the US, Canada, England or any other country where they might travel, live, work or write? What if the critics and opponents of Israel decided that it was now “legal” to murder Israel’s supporters wherever they lived citing the Daily Alert’s definition of legality? We would then find ourselves in a lawless world of “legal” murder and totalitarian cross-border surveillance.

(3) Minimizing the Murder

The Feb 22, 24, and 25 issues of the Daily Alert deflect attention from the Mossad murder by making comparison to the hundreds of Afghan civilians killed by US drone attacks. The claim is that “targeting individuals” is less a crime than mass killings. The problem with this argument is that for decades Mossad has “targeted” scores of opponents overseas and killed thousands of Palestinians in the occupied territories (where they work with the domestic secret police, Shin Bet, and the military, IDF). Moreover, this argument linking Israel’s extra judicial assassinations with US colonial killing of Afghans is hardly a defense of either. By implicating the US in its defense of state terror, Israel is holding up the worst aspects of American imperialism as a standard for its own political behavior. One state’s crimes are no justification for another state’s crimes.

(4) Blaming the Arabs: Deflecting Attention from Israel

The DA Feb. 22 article entitled “The Assassination Heard Around the World” insinuates that the murder was a “result of a Hamas power struggle” or by one of “many Arab groups who loathes the Islamist Hamas”.

In other words, all the forged or stolen European passports of Israeli dual citizens, and the Dubai security videos of Mossad operatives in various costumes, not to mention the jubilant affirmation by top Israeli leaders of the killing, was in reality ‘Arab tricks’. This crude propaganda ploy by the most prominent Jewish American organization reveals their own descent into a fantasy land of self-delusion, possible only in the closed world of US Zionist politics.

(5) Technical Proficiency

The DA published several articles praising the technical details of the Mossad assassination in Dubai, an aspect of the operation, with which few Israel security experts would agree. The Feb. 24 DA article entitled, “Assassination Shows Skillful Planning” chastises Israel’s critics for not recognizing the high quality of the “operational aspects” of the killings and recommends its “lessons for all intelligence services around the world”. Like sociopaths and serial killers, US Zionists openly promote Israeli death squad techniques to all fellow state terrorists. In the DA, professional techniques of assassination are far more important than universal moral repugnance of political murders.

(6) Discrediting the Investigators While Defending the Perpetrators

The DA on Feb. 25 cited a long and tendentious attack on the Dubai police, published in Forbes Magazine, which ridiculed their meticulous investigations uncovering Mossad’s roles in the murder. In this article, the Dubai authorities were condemned for uncovering Israeli involvement while not investigating the source of the murder victims’ … Iraqi passport! Instead of encouraging the Dubai police pursuit of justice, the Daily Alert published a long diatribe implicating Dubai in the attacks of 9/11/2001, its continued trade with Iran, its ‘involvement’ in international terrorism etc. There was no mention of Dubai’s relatively friendly position to Israel and Israelis prior to Mossad’s blatant violation of its sovereignty.

Conclusion

The American Zionist propaganda campaign in defense of Israeli state terror and, specifically, Mossad’s murder of a Hamas leader in Dubai, relies on lies, evasions and specious legal arguments. This “defense” violates all precepts of a civilized society as well as the most recent American federal laws prohibiting all forms of support for international terrorism. The PMAJO can pursue its defense of Mossad’s acts of international terrorism with impunity in the US because of its power over the US Congress, the Obama White House and the American mass media. This ensures that only its version of events, its definition of legality and its lies will be heard by legislators, echoed by Zionist activists and embellished by its solemn defenders in academic and journalistic circles. To counter the American Zionist defense of Israel’s practice of extra-territorial, extra-judicial executions by the Mossad, we need American writers and academics to step forward. It is time to expose their flimsy arguments, bold-face lies and audacious immorality. It is time to speak out against their impunity, before another Israeli secret police murder takes place, possibly inside the USA itself and with the shameless complicity of Zionist accomplices.

The authorities in Dubai have found clear evidence that the Mossad assassination team received support from European Zionists. The hotels, air tickets and expenses were paid with credit cards issued in the US. Two of the killers may be in the US now. Will a time come when American Zionists, who are unconditional public defenders of Mossad killings, cross the line between propaganda for the deed to become accomplices of the deed? The robust American Zionist defense of Mossad’s overseas assassinations does not augur well for the security of Americans in the face of Israel’s willing U.S. accomplices.

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  1. bozh said on March 3rd, 2010 at 9:59am #

    Yes, i have known for a decade or so that we`ve always lived and live now in lawless societies.
    It is well-known that US cannot break a single law. All of its `laws` being written not only for aliens but also for domestics.

    And all most important `laws`, being interpretative and interpreted by bunch of old people, well-educated in the interpretation of every `law`, and one obtains an ideal system.

    This is also known as the Greatness of America and israel being de facto its 51st, israel also obtains a TEN for its performance.

    Add to this the fact that the uncle has only one-minded agents to represent him in judiciary, cia, fbi, congress, army, WH, media; and a TEN is the least uncle earns.
    Yes the agents argue, get angry or dissemble it.
    But every political party has at least two wings + one, two, or three dissenters.
    tnx

  2. MichaelKenny said on March 3rd, 2010 at 11:35am #

    Let’s not lookk a gift horse in the mouth. What this tells us , along with a series of other things, is that Israel’s American supporters are in total panic.

  3. Deadbeat said on March 3rd, 2010 at 12:10pm #

    I doubt American Zionist are in a panic despite Michael Kenny reassurance. Petras is right, the lack of confrontation of American Zionism especially by the Left has led to its growth and hubris. But unfortunately the Left continued denials aids and abets Zionism’s power and influence in the U.S.

  4. Ismail Zayid said on March 3rd, 2010 at 1:51pm #

    Israel’s acts of state terrorism, extrajudicial assassination and other crimes need volumes to relate. But U.S. and other Zionist apologists have an incredible capacity to find justifications for such crimes. For them, Israel can do no wrong.

  5. bozh said on March 3rd, 2010 at 4:00pm #

    Aren’t all arab lands, except syria and lybia, now strongly with US? That can only reduce importance of israel in the quest for strong unity of all asocialists or facsists- if that doesn’t rub u the wrong way?

    Fascists are now uniting like never before and once sunni and pashtun fascists join the rest of them, israel further weakens.
    It wld be best for sunnis and pashtuns to cry uncle; since, as i see it, they have no sliver of chance to beat nato/us and all the other asocialist states.

    Pashtuns may resist for decades, but nato-us can bomb,missile, use drones, wmd for decades and with not much cost. Yes, US may lose a few k idiots, but who wld care?
    Has US made a secret deal with arab lands pertaining to the end fate of expalestine? Such as one state solution? In order to get them onside? Two state solution might work well for ‘jews’, but not for palestinians.
    For pals it wld be changing an illegal camp for a legal one.

    In add’n, the white ‘jews’ actually spurn ‘jews’ of israel. I don’t think most americans wld care one way or the other what eventually happens there.

    These signs do not augur well for shemites of the mosheic cult. In any case, they are pure s[h]emites unlike white ‘jews’ who have simply highjacked that name for selves and in order to perp a swindle on unwary europeans.

    Israel is not yet a state. Killing torturing, imprisoning thousands pals still has not brough them a state. That’s another ominous sign that there is s’mthing amiss.
    Killing now one person is just plain stupid or reveals israeli arrogance or even impotence! tnx

  6. Rehmat said on March 3rd, 2010 at 6:04pm #

    It seems some of Obama’s advisers are having second thought to dancing to Jewish Lobby’s tune.

    Department spokesperson, P.J. Crowley, claimed (Reuters) that Washington doesn’t want to impose “crippling sanctions” against Tehran over its nuclear program – as those would have “significant impact on Iranian people”. Crowley was shedding crocodile tears for the Iranian people who have suffered at the hands of US administrations and Zionist entity for over 50 years in the past. Some officials in the White House also fear that a further round of sanctions against Islamic-regime in Tehran will backfire as more and more so-called “anti-Ahmadinejad regime” Iranians would join the anti-US-Israel majority…..

    http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/israeli-push-for-crippling-iran-sanctions-backfired/

  7. bozh said on March 4th, 2010 at 7:50am #

    Let’s not forget those cheques and balances that always balance out just right!
    ‘Jewish’, protestant, catholic, polish, irish, german, english money…who cares?
    Keep in mind also parols like Greatness of America, God Bless America, Our Great Nation, We Are A Nation Of Law [not of people,ha, ha, ha]
    And there is that tiny Israel w.o. nickel, copper, iron, molibdenum, titanium, uranium, iridium, etcetc. In short, not a single mine? tnx