Dubai And "Stupid Israeli Spies"
By Eileen Fleming
23 February, 2010
Countercurrents.org
On February 23, 2010, Reuters reported that the Dubai police are virtually certain that the Israeli Mossad are responsible for murder by suffocation of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, that at least 18 people may be involved and that the death squad used passports from European Union countries. So far, six have been identified as Britons living in Israel, but they deny any involvement and say their identities were stolen. The United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed vowed to bring those responsible to justice, but the Israeli foreign minister continues to insist there is no proof Israel carried out the killing.
Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh was murdered in his Dubai hotel on January 20, 2010 and Israel’s Mossad had attempted to take his life three times previously: in 1991, 2004 and 2008.
James Petras, a retired Bartle Professor Emeritus of Sociology who has published prolifically on Middle Eastern political issues, wrote:
“On January 19 Israel's international secret police, the Mossad, sent an eighteen member death squad to Dubai using European passports, supposedly ‘stolen’ from Israeli dual citizens and altered with fake photos and signatures, in order to assassinate the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud al Mabhouh.
“The evidence is overwhelming: The Dubai police presentation of detailed security videos of the assassins was corroborated by the testimony of Israeli security experts and applauded by Israel’s leading newspapers and columnists. 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. Furthermore, the sophisticated communication system used by the killers, the logistics and planning surrounding their entry and exit from Dubai and the scope and scale of the operation have all the characteristics of a high-level state operation.
“Furthermore, only Mossad would have access to the European passports of its dual citizens! Only Mossad would have the capacity, motivation, stated intent and willingness to provoke a diplomatic row with its European allies, knowing full well that Western European governments’ anger would blow over because of their deep links to Israel. After meticulous investigation and the interrogation of 2 captured Palestinian Mossad collaborators, the Dubai police chief has stated he is sure the Mossad was behind the killing.”[1]
Israel’s most recent stupidity exposes once again that their rule of law has more in common with the law of the jungle, for murder as well as the kidnapping of Mordechai Vanunu from Rome in 1986, is unrestrained when it comes to any deemed a threat to the security of the Jewish State.
Petras also wrote:
“Israel’s extra-territorial assassinations make a mockery of the very notion of national sovereignty. Extra-territorial secret police elimination of opponents was a common practice of the Nazi Gestapo, Stalin’s GPU and Pinochet’s DINA and has now become the sanctioned practice of the US “Special Forces” and the CIA clandestine division. Such policies are the hallmark of totalitarian, dictatorial and imperialist states, which systematically trample on the sovereign rights of peoples.
“The precedent of Israel killing its adversaries abroad, establishes the outer boundaries of repression by its overseas supporters in the leading Zionist organizations, most of whom have now and in the past supported Israel’s violation of national sovereignty via extra-judicial killings. If Israel physically eliminates its opponents and critics, the 51 major American Jewish organizations economically repress Israel’s critics in the US. They actively pressure employers, university presidents and public officials to fire employees, academics and professionals who dare to speak or write against Israeli torture, killing and systematic dispossession of Palestinians.”[Ibid]
The Mossad’s most recent incompetence affirms that Mordechai Vanunu’s labeling of them, as “Israeli Stupid Spies” is most accurate.
Israel’s so called Intelligence Agency has devolved into a deadly version of the incompetent silent film series the Keystone Kops, who were a bungling group of clumsy policemen in silent films; but the only thing comical about the Mossad is their incompetent employees sent to Dubai, who allowed their faces to be captured on multiple security videos while changing wigs and costumes.
The Mossad also has no qualms about using one's own family! In 1986, Cheryl Hanin was a 26-year-old Mossad agent who traveled under her sister-in-laws name, Cindy Hanin to pose as an American tourist in London.
In 2005, I began a series of interviews with Mordechai Vanunu, the whistleblower of Israel’s WMD program. When I asked Vanunu what was he thinking when he took off from London to Rome with Cindy, Vanunu looked me directly in the eyes the entire time and readily replied:
"It wasn't like THAT-when Maxwell's paper published my photo without ever talking to me and some of the stolen Dimona photos with a very bad story against me, I knew the Mossad was after me. Cindy said she had a sister in Rome and I thought I would be safe there until I could return to London. We went to movies and art galleries, I trusted her. But, as soon as I got into the apartment, I was hit on the head and drugged. When I woke up and they took me for interrogation, they threw the Times article on the table and said, 'Look, what you did.' I was so relieved they had published it and that I had done what I did."
On October 5, 1986, five days after Vanunu was kidnapped by the Mossad and while he was being transported back to Israel for a closed door trial that lead to 18 years in Ashkelon prison, The London Sunday Times published a front-page photo of the Dimona reactor and a story that spread over three pages revealing Israel's arsenal of upwards of 200 nuclear warheads.
This citizen journalist paid $20.00 to obtain Cheryl Ben Tov’s home address and phone number. I snail mailed Mrs. Ben Tov twice and live a short car drive from her gated community. Two days after posting my letter with my return address on the envelope, visits to my website increased dramatically, as they also have within twenty-four hours after departing Ben Gurion Airport, for I always tell SECURITY where I have been and what I was doing during my 7 trips to Israel Palestine since 2005.
As Petras points out,
“The Mossad’s acquisition and alteration of official British, French, German and Irish passports of dual Israeli citizen’s underscores the cynical and sinister nature of Israel’s exploitation of its dual citizens in the pursuit of its own bloody foreign policy goals.”[Ibid]
On November 24, 2008, I wrote, Dear Security: Secure This!
Last night I left occupied east Jerusalem for the seventeen hour return home trip to my sanctuary in Florida.
I wore my NAKBA t-shirt and was greeted with a smile by my first inquisitor at Ben Gurion Airport, who inquired, "May I have your passport? Why did you come to Israel?"
I readily replied as I handed it to her along with my WeAreWideAwake.org business card, "I came to Israel in order to go to occupied Palestine to learn more about Al Nakba and report it all on my website."
"Al Nakba?"
"Yes, Al Nakba, which is Arabic for The Catastrophe, The Disaster; the other side of the story of what happened when Israel became a state, in 1948. No coincidence, I think that UN Resolution 194 affirms the Right of Return to Palestinian's who became refugees when Zionists grabbed even more land than 'civilized' white men partitioned to them."
"Oh, I see…Did anyone give you anything, anything at all? I must ask as even a harmless looking item can be made explosive."
"Nobody in occupied Palestine gave me anything except food, drink and good company. The only things explosive about me are the words that I pound out on my computer, for I am a citizen journalist, not corporate controlled media."
"I see. Please wait here."
I did, and she went to converse with three colleagues a few yards from me. Within a minute, they were all looking at me. Ten minutes later, she returned with a smiling man who held my passport and business card and introduced himself as "Security."
I smiled and replied, "Happy to know you, I am Eileen."
"What was your reason to visit Israel?"
"Well, you can read all about it on my website, and I hope you will. I have been to Hebron, Erez Crossing and occupied east Jerusalem. I came to learn more and report the truth as I dissent from the way my American tax dollars are spent. Seven to ten million U.S.A. tax dollars every single day, go to support the military occupation of Palestine, and that ticks me off!"
He maintained his smile as he nodded to the woman who applied white stickers on my bags and onto the back of my passport. I was told to proceed to the first x-ray machine for Phase Two of Security:
A bank of x-ray machines in the center of a long rectangular counter.
I was waved over to the long side where four employees stood and not one smiled at me.
I was politely ordered to open up all my bags and with plastic gloves on their hands they emptied out all my neat packing and swabbed every surface and examined every item.
I asked with a smile, "So, what exactly are you swabbing for?"
"Security."
"Yes, I have heard that one before, but please tell me more. What exactly are you looking for in my cosmetics and dirty laundry?"
"We cannot say."
"Why not?"
"Security."
After my laptop was thoroughly swabbed I was politely asked to start it up and open up a program. I did as I was told as I inquired, "Why?"
"Security. I must take your computer away now."
Oh great I thought as she disappeared from my site for at least five minutes. I am not one to give into paranoia, but I am having my laptop checked out by a geek asap.
After I was allowed to repack all my belongings, I embarked upon Phase Three of Security: The Strip Search.
I was told that I must be checked for metal and once again, I was led to the same door I had been led through twice before, marked SECURITY.
I knew the routine and as soon as I got behind the curtain I removed my shoes and belt and sat down until they were run through another x-ray machine.
When my 'companion' returned I stood without being told with arms extended from my sides and I was wanded all over and then thoroughly patted down on every inch of my body.
Once again the wand whined with intensity as it passed over the buttons on my jeans, and like every time before, I was told to sit down and wait while my companion went to fetch an unsmiling woman who entered the cubicle and introduced herself as "Security."
She ordered me to drop my jeans to my knees and once more, my abdomen and pelvis were wanded over again.
After passing inspection I was led back to my belongings and my 'companion' wrote down my passport number on a log sheet. Then I was led to the Continental desk labeled "Security" to receive my boarding pass and accompanied to Customs as I wondered, why doesn't SECURITY secure human rights of human beings?
1. http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15757
Other Sources:
The Vanunu Saga: 2005-2010:
http://wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_
content&task=blogcategory&id=50&Itemid=156
Eileen Fleming,
Founder of WeAreWideAwake.org
A Feature Correspondent for Arabisto.com
Author of "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory"
Producer "30 Minutes with Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu"
http://www.youtube.com/user/eileenfleming
