And all for the sake of what amounts to the politics of the parish pump
People attend the funeral ceremony held for Fatima Abdullah, who died in a pager explosion in Beqaa, Lebanon on Tuesday
For murder is also Mossad’s business, however they dress it up as “mowing the grass” or “targeted killing”. Television and the movies have added a certain glamour to the proceedings. And the victims of these attacks often don’t warrant much sympathy. The team posing as Canadian tourists who in 1997 sprayed poison into the ear of Khaled Meshal, head of Hamas political activities, outside his home in Amman, was quickly rounded up by Jordanian security. The head of Mossad, Efraim Halevi, was forced to rush an antidote out to Jordan, since King Hussein was threatening to hang his agents. Meshal remains an influential Hamas leader today.
Israel’s admirers in the Western press will be celebrating this latest act of technologically sophisticated derring-do, even as more sober heads with actual responsibilities condemn an indiscriminate terror attack which is bound to elicit a response from within It may be that Tuesday’s horrendous attacks had to be brought forward after Hezbollah became suspicious that its supply lines had been compromised. At least one Hezbollah operative was killed by Mossad to stop his suspicions becoming widespread. In that case this attack was designed to coincide with an IDF ground incursion by forces which have been built up for months.
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