Mossad
Comes to America: Death Squads By Invitation - Zionism
8 March 2010By James
Petras
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 Arab’s, (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
rightwing 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’s.
(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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