Untold Facts

Mossad goes to US

In the face of worldwide condemnation (except from the White House and US Congress), the PMAJO backs any brutal murder commited 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 from several European countries.

Among the Mossad agents who entered Dubai to kill Mabhouh, 12 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 demonstrates that its first loyalty is to Israel even when it violate the sovereignty of major US allies. No doubt the PMAJO would readily support the Mossad, even if it had used US 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 US after the killing and may still be here.

The position adopted by the DA and the PMAJO in defence of Israel’s international terrorist act followed several lines of atack.

These include:

Blaming the victim

Claiming that extra-judicial, extra territorial murders are legal

Minimising the murder of ‘one’ individual

Deflecting atention from the Zionists by blaming other Arabs

Discrediting the Dubai police investigators rather than the Israeli perpetrators.

Articles have appeared in the op-ed pages of several US, UK, Canadian and Israeli newspapers, as well as in 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 practising state terrorism.

On February 22, the 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. 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 “puting 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.

If Israel’s 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 DA’s definition of legality? We would then find ourselves in a lawless world of “legal” murder and totalitarian cross-border surveillance.

The February 22, 24, and 25 issues of the DA deflect atention from the Mossad murder by making comparison to the hundreds of Afghan civilians killed by US drone atacks. 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. Moreover, this argument linking Israel’s extra judicial assassinations with US colonial killing of Afghans is hardly a defence of either. By implicating the US in its defence of state terror, Israel is holding up the worst aspects of US imperialism as a standard for its own political behaviour. One state’s crimes are no justification for another’s.

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 was in reality ‘Arab tricks’. This crude propaganda ploy reveals their own descent into a fantasy land of self-delusion, possible only in the closed world of US Zionist politics.

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 February 24 DA article entitled, “Assassination Shows Skilful Planning” chastises Israel’s critics for not recognising the ‘high quality’ 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.

The DA on February 25 cited a long and tendentious atack on the Dubai police, published in Forbes, which ridiculed their meticulous investigations uncovering Mossad’s roles in the murder. In the article, the Dubai authorities were condemned for uncovering Israeli involvement while not investigating the source of the murder victim’s Iraqi passport! The US Zionist propaganda campaign in defence of Israeli state terror and, specifically, murder of the Hamas leader, relies on lies, evasions and specious legal arguments.

This “defence” violates all precepts of a civilised society as well as the most recent US federal laws prohibiting all forms of support for international terrorism. The PMAJO can pursue its defence of Mossad’s acts of terrorism with impunity in the US because of its power over the US Congress, the White House and the US 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 Zionist defence of Israel’s practice of executions by the Mossad, we need American writers and academics to step forward. It is time to expose their flimsy arguments, bold-faced lies and immorality.

It is time to speak out against their impunity, before another Israeli secret police murder takes place, possibly inside the US 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 cross the line between propaganda for the deed to become accomplices of the deed? The robust American Zionist defence of Mossad’s overseas assassinations does not augur well for the security of Americans in the face of Israel’s willing US accomplices.

James Petras is a Bartle Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of 64 books published in 29 languages. For comments, write to opinion@khaleejtimes.com

Recalling Cars and Listening Posts at home Nasir Mahmood (At Home)

6 March 2010 All major car companies, it seems, are recalling some of their top brands these days. I too, am going to ‘recall’ cars, albeit in a different perspective.

Over the years, many things that were once an inseparable part and parcel of one’s life here in the UAE, have given way to new innovations. What I recalled the other day was just how fast one adapts to a new lifestyle, adjusting to new realities - almost as if that thing in the past did not exist at all!

Of a plethora of such changes, two phenomena simply stand out for me. One is the cars. Some 10 to 15 years back, and both hurtling on the horizon were huge and long cars (in length and width-wise), mainly American gas guzzlers, such as Chevrolet Caprice, Buick, Cadillac, Plymouth, Dodge and Camaros, not to forget the German BMWs and Mercedes that ruled the roost (sorry roads) in the UAE.

As time rolled by, the increase in population and shrinking income gave way to Japanese Corollas and Nissans, and most recently, the much smaller and fuel-efficient versions-Yaris and Tiidas.

General Motors, which once made giant cars, has also shifted to making shorter versions, the fairy-like Sparks and people have lapped up these smaller versions for easy commuting. Though SUVs as-big-as-a-room-like Armadas, Sequoias and Ford’s Flex continue to flex their muscles on the roads, the cars that really rule the roads these days are the smaller ones. But just 15 years ?back, it was almost unthinkable for anyone to go for small cars. For, the ‘giants’ were affordable. Weren’t they? Now, in the presence of cars like Picantos (by Kia), such giants as well as those considered to be classic cars have taken a back seat

The second major change that leaves me dumbstruck is the phone. How a man flits from one technology to another is evident from the changes ?witnessed in this small gadget that man cannot do without Before the onslaught of cell phones in the UAE, the common medium for expatriates to ?get in touch with someone back home was the telephone booths, which are now largely abandoned, merely collecting dust But think of yesteryears ?when the mere sight of a free telephone booth on the corner of a street would fill one’s heart with joy, because that was the easiest-available means to talk to your near and dear ones. Now, these booths wear a forlorn look and are used mainly by people for pasting advertisements.

Hardly would you find any booths these days that have not been plastered with ‘bed-room-space’ or ‘car-lift available’, ads. The invasion of the cell phones have moved a large chunk of expatriate and local population away from these once much-loved ‘listening posts’.

Remember those Fridays? How people would form long queues, waiting for their turn at the phone. This was a common sight on holidays. An insignificant chunk of the population still relies on these listening posts. These booths have remained part and parcel of one’s life for so long that they have given way to many interesting anecdotes. Much has changed around Dubai and the UAE. Modernisation and development at a break-neck speed has left the common man, especially the expatriates, in a world of their own - recalling all those days in nostalgia. God knows what the future beckons for them?

Author: Prof James Petras
Source: Internet