As most of you are no doubt aware, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the Hamas leader was assassinated yesterday in Dubai in what appears to be a rather flagrant operation by Mossad, the Israeli Intelligence organisation.
I say it "appears" to have been a Mossad operation, only because Israel is remaining silent about it. However, despite the fact that The Guardian has studiously avoided any mention of the Israeli spy agency, it doesn't take much to see the Mossad stamp all over it. They are well known for these types of "revenge" killings and rogue operations whereby they bypass the judicial system and dish out their own Old Testament type of justice. In most societies we consider this barbaric, to say the least! Yet because Israel is involved, we give them cart blanch to act in any way they please and flaunt International and social laws and justice.
Historically, to sell this campaign of assassination to their public, Israel makes much of the precise identification of their targets, and the 'judicial' deliberations which accompanied the final decision to kill them. But it still begs the question that if they are so clever, and their organisation so effective in tracking down these "targets", why not simply arrest them for their supposed crimes and have them face a court of International law? Is this not what we did with those "heinous monsters" from the ex-Yugoslavia? Oh... but Israel is a law unto itself, and for far too long we have let them get away with, literally, murder!!
Whether these Mossad "targets" deserve to die or not isn't the question here... it's the manner in which the due process of law is flagrantly abused which causes the greatest concern. The head of Mossad acts as prosecuting attorney; the Prime Minister and other cabinet members act as judges and the agents themselves become the executioners. How very "civilized"... n'est pas?
There is no defense for the victim. No chance for the victim to have his/her day in court... a courtesy we extend even our most hardened criminals. Israel, however, doesn't recognise or respect the common rights which we all take for grated as members of a democratic and "just" society. Ironically, however, words like murder or revenge are banned from the lexicon of a state which likes to be seen to act in a moral way.
This bothers me greatly. It raises the obvious question of whether any government which claims to stand for democracy and morality can not only condone the employment of such death squads, but actually sanction such subversive action as a "moral" and "just" operation.
What has also struck me about the huge media coverage over this assassination is that the shock and outrage seems to concern the stolen passports and identities of these killers, rather than the unlawful killing itself.
So... what are we to conclude? The underlying assumption here is quite clear... the assumption that if suspected Israeli assassins avoid using passports issued by western nations as part of their illegal and murderous activities abroad, that's just fine and dandy. We can carry on with our lives. Turn a blind eye. Just like we do with every other goddamn illegal operation that Zionist state engages in.
... and a final question for you to ponder, dear reader: What would have been the MSM's reaction if members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard were suspected of assassinating an Iranian dissident living abroad in Dubai, or an Israeli politician or general visiting a foreign country? I don't know about you, but I sincerely suspect that using forged passports of innocent foreign nationals would have been the last thing mentioned.
