Hitting the wrong target

[shira]

Mabhouh co-founded the Hamas military wing and Hamas declared war on Israel. He was a self-confessed murderer. Last year he boasted on al-Jazeera about his personal culpability in the separate 1989 kidnap-murders of Israeli soldiers Avi Sasportas and Ilan Sa'adon. He crowed about smuggling into Gaza thousands of Iranian-made missiles for the sole purpose of making the lives of Israeli civilians hellish in the country's heartland, including Tel Aviv.

So when Israelis point to Mabhouh's gory record, it isn't just their biased say-so. It's hardly an unsubstantiated assertion, an excuse to justify assassination.

Accustomed and resigned as Israelis are to the world's double standards, they nevertheless watch with renewed amazement as Mabhouh's suspected killers are placed on Interpol's wanted list, where Mabhouh himself never appeared - soaked with blood as his hands were. Has anyone, incidentally, bothered inquiring which passport Mabhouh was travelling under and why he was allowed to enter Dubai on a gun-running mission?

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Adolf Eichmann was apprehended in Argentina and taken to Israel by means that weren't quite orthodox. Yet wasn't it justice? Had Osama bin Laden been bumped off in Dubai, would the outcry have been as vehement?

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http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/hitting-the-wrong-target-20100227-pa9t.html

[YankmeCrankme]

1. It's interesting you reference Eichman

He was captured and sent for trial, evidence was presented and deliberated on. He was found guilty and executed.

[elias49]

2. Israel has benefitted from double standards for years

so of course Israelis are accustomed to special treatment.
Resigned? Please!

[shira]

3. In Dubai, all Jews are suspects now

According to Emarat Al Youm, a newspaper published in the United Arab Emirates, Tamim urged Arab countries to thoroughly check any Jewish person who carries a non-Israeli passport in order to "prevent Mossad's infiltrations".

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3855160,00.html

I fully expect all the anti-racist and anti-bigoted, anti-hate powers in charge to be all over this in 3.....2.....1.

Bueller?

:eyes:

[elias49]

4. In the US, all Arabs are suspects now.

[shira]

5. The message from Netanyahu

The reason you see no strategy in the Dubai assassination is that you have bought into the MSM coverage, which portrayed it as a poorly handled goof that left the Mossad wide open. Many commentators said the assassination was beneath the Mossad - as if the Mossad had somehow forgotten their expertise and flubbed up.

Do you seriously believe this is the case? Where you see no strategy, I see grand strategy. Think about what the Israelis have done.

They have waltzed into Dubai, allowed themselves to be videotaped every which way -- including while putting on costumes and wigs -- killed a man, and waltzed right back out. They did it in plain sight. And they did it using British passports.

What does this say to Hamas, and Arab nation onlookers? It says that wherever you are, whatever you are doing, however many video cameras you may have watching you, we will find you, and we will kill you. And you will know who we are, and yet you will never find us. And MOST importantly: we are going to do it in as brazen a manner as possible.

We are even going to swipe the passports of some innocent British citizens, daring the West to criticize us. But we don't care. We are going to kill you in such a manner that you will immediately be able to track us down - but we'll already be gone. The Israelis didn't use fake passports not because they didn't have the technical expertise or the brains, but because they wanted to pull off their assassination in the most brazen, flagrant manner possible, while still allowing themselves to get away with it.

And just because the British and American pundits didn't pick up on this, doesn't mean Hamas didn't get the point.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/02/the-message-from-netanyahu.html