The Mossad - 2010-03-03

While it hasn’t been 100% confirmed, it most likely WAS the Israeli Intelligence Agency- the MOSSAD - that orchestrated the killing of Hamas leader and munitions supplier, Mahmoud al Mabhouh recently in his hotel room in Dubai.

There is considerable international concern about this. Many countries are expressing their displeasure at one nation’s operatives assassinating another nation’s citizen, on a third nation’s turf. While understandable on a superficial level, really, this thinking is foolish.

The attempted assassination of people outside of their own country is not new. If it was, no head of state would need security travelling abroad. It’s easier to assassinate someone – particularly someone who is concerned about their security – as he’s staying at a hotel, or driving to the airport. After all, their own home or government buildings will be better secured, there will be greater risk of collateral damage, and of course, his enemies will have a much harder time simply getting into the country.

Mr. al Mabhouh was assessed as a danger to Israel. He lived in Syria. He bought arms in Iran. If he was to be targeted where should that be? Would the world community have preferred his HOME be hit with a missile, which would have killed every other person nearby? In IRAN, a police state extremely dangerous for foreign operatives? And before we get too moral over the ethics of assassination in the first place, just remember how many attempts were made on Castro by the CIA. Very few countries have the moral authority to tut-tut a country’s actions in eliminating a major threat to their existence.

We all know that if the Americans were to discover Bin Laden in a hotel in Dubai, they would act swiftly and aggressively, diplomatic consequences be damned.

Wars, declared or not, are now fought on a global playing field. OUR enemies will not hesitate to inflict damage on us, whether at home or abroad. The people who flew American planes into the Twin Towers came halfway around the world to do so. So, when we need to protect ourselves, we can’t always be constrained by borders.

Mr. al Mabhouh lived by the sword and he died by the sword. It is to the credit of those whose swords felled him, that no innocents were taken along with him.