Another Genocidal Murderer Wiped Out? Britain Knows Who's Really Guilty

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February 20, 2010

Melanie Phillips

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As self-righteous uproar against Israel rises in Britain over Mossad’s supposed use of stolen British passport identities for the hit-squad which assassinated senior Hamas operative Mahmoud Mabhouh, one or two solitary voices have been trying to introduce a little realism into this latest excuse for frighteningly unhinged Israel-bashing (see the newspaper comment threads, from the moment Dubai published the passport details, for the eruption of a hatred that seizes any and every opportunity to give vent to this bigotry). Tom Gross (who has circulated the picture above of one of Mabhouh's victims, a child murdered by a Hamas missile in Sderot) has written an excellent resumé of the madness (this article being a notable exception), pointing out that much of the British media in particular has jumped to the conclusion that this was indeed a Mossad operation even though there is a possibility that Israel may have been set up.

Some of this coverage surely amounts to incitement to racial hatred. Douglas Murray draws attention here to the astonishing suggestion broadcast on BBC Radio Four’s PM program that

up to one million Jews worldwide might be on hand to assist Mossad in executions, a claim which turns every Jew in the diaspora into a potential suspected killer and thus a target for hatred and violence. In my view this claim should be brought to the attention of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

If the Dubai hit was a Mossad operation, it would appear at first blush to have been remarkably incompetent; since the Mossad would obviously have realized that their every move was being recorded on Dubai’s omnipresent security cameras, to have laid a trail to lead straight back to Israel like this appears bafflingly sloppy. And to use the identities of people now living as immigrants in Israel is perplexing.

On the other hand, the Jerusalem Post reports that Israel had very good reason for wanting Mabhouh dead, so much so that it may have factored in the all-too likely repercussions:

A diplomatic fallout with London, caused by the use of forged UK passports, seems a very real possibility if UK authorities officially blame Israeli intelligence for the Dubai slaying. But such a development would surely have been factored into any decision to take Mabhouh out. The diplomatic friction now building up would have been deemed bearable before any go-ahead was given for the killing....According to reports, Mabhouh oversaw the smuggling of Iranian long-range rockets into Gaza, enabling Hamas to threaten the densely populated Gush Dan region, home to

more than three million Israelis and the scene of the country’s financial hub.

Only in Britain could the eradication of someone who was planning to murder untold numbers of innocents (Tom Gross reports he was apparently en route to procure Iranian missiles capable of hitting Tel Aviv from Gaza) be deemed worthy of censure by Western hypocrites. If, apart from eradicating a terrorist before he could further assist mass murder, the operation was intended to give a message to bad guys everywhere that they will be successfully hunted down, it was a striking success for whoever carried it out – so much so that if Israel was not behind this, it would undoubtedly want its enemies to think that it was. As for the British and Irish passport-holders whose identities were purloined for the hit:

... the olim [immigrants] who found their names on the Dubai police’s wanted list will not encounter great difficulties in clearing their names, since most of the details in the forged documents were changed from the originals. The assassins apparently went to great lengths to ensure that the olim could distance themselves from the incident, changing passport numbers, inserting bogus middle names and altering dates of birth.

... The Gulf state, keen to preserve its name as a neutral financial haven, free from the violent woes that afflict other parts of the Middle East, has gone out of its way to try and embarrass the assassins and those who sent them. Such efforts, presumably, would have been foreseen by the mission’s planners as a possible outcome, and deemed acceptable.

Certainly, Dubai seems to have gone to great lengths to incriminate Israel. Why, after all, did it publish the passport details like this? If it wanted to catch the real agents, this was hardly going to advance this aim for which it obviously needed merely to go through the usual channels of inter-state police and intelligence agencies. Dubai is now going out of its way to point the finger at Israel, with its police chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim calling upon Interpol to issue a “Red Notice” to arrest the head of Mossad.

There are many unanswered questions arising from Dubai’s claims. It is possible that Israel was responsible alone for this operation; it is possible that it was not involved and it is being set up; it is possible that Mossad was one of a number of state actors which are now setting up Israel alone to take the rap. Who knows?

Only the British media, it seems, for whom Israel is always guilty of bad deeds.

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributor Melanie Phillips is the author of the powerful and frightening Londonistan, which can be purchased here, and she blogs at The Spectator.

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please don't throw around words like 'genocidal' frivolously.

also, i see the picture u dug up. how did u ignore the many hundreds of such pictures of palestinian children from the last gaza war?

posted by: Sunil
Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 03:24 AM

might I remind all israelis of The Lillehammer affair

remember where mossad murdered a complete innocent

personally I don't think it would be acceptable to murder an israeli leader for thier mass murder of palestinians....I'd much rather they were arrested and tried for thier crimes

posted by: Sandra
Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 04:15 AM

Shame on everyone that tries to defend a known terrorist, whos only goal is to kill jews cause thay are jews...

posted by: jÃ³n
Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 02:45 PM

Sunil - Your complaint about Palestinian kids killed in the Gaza invasion is hollow: I am sure you never complained about any of the Jews killed in Sderot by the rockets or the 2-year old infant who had her skull crushed in with a rifle butt by one of your Palestinian heroes -- who was greeted with savage glee by your folks when he was traded for the corpse of an Israeli soldier. I am sure you have no regrets about the infant nursery that was shot up in the '70s either. So stop playing "martyred Arab kids." It's a fraud and we're on to it. If your people cared, they wouldn't use kids as human shields and their mothers wouldn't YU-YU-YU like a siren when one of their kids blows up a Jew. You people say: "We love death and you Jews love life." So stop pretending, Sunil. You represent a culture of death. You love the fact that Arabs play to the morally depraved and intellectually degenerate left wing Europeans with yor "martyred kids" games. You do not care how many kids are killed as long as you have your propaganda weapon. You people WANT dead kids. That's why you fire weapons from behind them.
As for Sandra, another propagandist, you would never try an Arab for any crime against an American or a Jew or an Israeli. So cut the "try them for their crimes" soap opera. You people have played that card and it's sily and boring. People see right through you: You apologize for savages.

As for Europe: They want to charge the Mossad agents for the targeted killing of an evildoer? Really? How many Jews does Mabhouh or any other Arab get to kill before the Europeans bring charges against the murderer? Obviously, there is no limit. This is because the Europeans are not only cowards but they are so used to killing Jews from the past that now, they still feel comfortable watching someone else do it.
I suspect that Sanil is female as is Sandra. I think you both need to go live in Saudi Arabia or in a Taliban society and enjoy your "rights". You two have no idea what life or rights are. You are apologists for a cult of death, oppression and bigotry. Your complaints against Israel are hypocrisy. BTW, who has killed the most Arabs? Israel? America? Nope! It's other Arabs! Don't bother responding. You'll just call me a bigot. Everyone knows what you are going to say already because you cannot answer any of my points. You'll do what you people always do when you're exposed for what you are: You cry "Bigot!" This is where I just wish you'd just put on a shadur and shut up!

posted by: Jarrow L. Rogovin
Monday, February 22, 2010 at 09:54 AM

I am British and sometimes I am ashamed of our TV and press reporting. This is yet another example of biased journalism.
I used to be a policeman and from what I have seen there is no evidence that would stand up in a court of law. A series of photos of people who may or may not have known each other. Forged passports that used information that could be obtained by any airline employee.
More importantly, why did the 'victim' openly discuss his travel arrangements, and use open internet access to book his flight? I for one am very suspicious that he was deliberately set up by so-called 'friends' who wanted him out of the way.
Lastly, why did Dubai let him in to the country in the first place? A known terrorist gun runner in the country to buy Iranian rockets. I think Dubai has more questions than it will be willing to answer.

posted by: Alan
Monday, February 22, 2010 at 01:05 PM

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