Opinion Editorials, March 2010

Redress, Al-Jazeerah, ccun.org, March 29, 2010

 
Paul J. Balles views the use of deception, disinformation and murder by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, and notes that “not a single establishment journalist nor Western intelligence agency has given enough credence” to former Mossad operative Victor Ostrovsky's revelations about the agency’s methods “to modify and correct the Mossad-planted line”.

”If journalists of the so-called free Western press ever took stock of Victor Ostrovsky's revelations, they've neatly swept them under the carpet. The hoax, the disinformation and deception created by Israel's Mossad, is finally crumbling like the Tower of Babel it reflects.”

The British are again catching up with Israel's trickery. The BBC announced on 23 March that an Israeli diplomat had been expelled from the UK.

That action resulted from Israel's involvement in forged British passports related to the assassination in January of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai.

Ironically, David Miliband, the British foreign secretary, expressed less concern about the criminal assassination than the forgery of British passports. Is the BBC also more focused on passport forgeries than assassinations?

The BBC reported” "It is not the first time British passports have been misused by Israel. In 1987 the country was caught forging UK passports for an intelligence operation, and Israel promised it would not do it again."

In this latest perfidy, forged passports from France, Ireland, Germany and Australia were also used in the operation. Dubai officials said they were "99 per cent certain" that agents from Mossad were behind the killing.

Author of more than 62 books, Professor James Petras comments: "The Mossad openly stated that Mabhouh was a high priority target who had survived three previous assassination attempts. Israel did not even bother to deny the murder."

There's reason for concern about Israel getting away with such operations. Petras notes: "The unfettered operation of foreign state-sponsored death squads, carrying out extra-judicial assassinations with impunity, is a serious threat to every critic, writer, political leader and civic activist who dares to criticize Israel."

The concern extends to ordinary travellers. "Thanks to Israel’s use of British passports to enter Dubai and murder an adversary, every British businessperson or tourist travelling in the Middle East will be suspected of links to Israeli death squads," writes Petras.

We forget that Israel was/is the major beneficiary of 9/11. How did Israel benefit? Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, believed that Iraq could have weapons of mass destruction; and Israel wanted Iraq neutralized before it had a chance to use WMDs against Israel.

Mossad has been getting away with intelligence crimes for years. Considered a traitor by Israel for exposing the clandestine activities of Mossad, Victor Ostrovsky authored several books and numerous articles detailing Mossad's misconduct. These include By Way of Deception (St Martin's Press, 1990) and The Other Side of Deception (Harper Collins, 1994).

Ostrovsky's exposure has been available to journalists and investigative reporters since 1990, yet not a single establishment journalist nor Western intelligence agency has given enough credence to Ostrovsky's revelations to modify and correct the Mossad-planted line.

How many of the reports coming out of the great Western democracies, where freedom of the press presumably remains sacrosanct, have even vaguely alluded to Mossad's role as a key provocateur in American or British attitudes and actions?

I previously compared Mossad's activities with Homer’s story of the Trojan War, when the Greeks created a clever plan to get into the city of Troy with the infamous Trojan Horse. Describing how Mossad used Trojans, Ostrovsky revealed how Mossad used deception to gather intelligence and conduct assassinations.

Mossad's motto, "By way of deception, thou shalt do war," has been accepted and approved by the Israeli government. Ostrovsky, rejecting an offer to be trained for the assassin's squad, became a case officer. He retired because of the agency's activities that he exposed.

If journalists of the so-called free Western press ever took stock of Victor Ostrovsky's revelations, they've neatly swept them under the carpet. The hoax, the disinformation and deception created by Israel's Mossad, is finally crumbling like the Tower of Babel it reflects.

Perhaps the exposure of the assassination in Dubai will force enough governments and media mavens to bring the use of Mossad's disinformation campaigns and extra-judicial assassinations on behalf of Israel to a halt.