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The Mossad has demonstrated its assassination effectiveness on foreign soil twice in recent days with the assassination in Beirut of Hezbollah leader Fouad Shukur, and the assassination in Tehran of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Although Israel has only admitted its involvement in the first attack, no one doubts that its intelligence services were behind both killings, a dangerous fact that also leaves the region on the brink of total war. From Lebanon, the military has threatened to increase its operations in the Hebrew nation, while Iran has launched another attack in revenge “for the killing of a dear guest” in its home.
The two Islamist leaders were eliminated in two precise airstrikes. According to the Lebanese news agency, Shukur was killed in an operation carried out on Tuesday with a helicopter that launched three missiles at the house where the Hezbollah leader was, also killed five other civilians and injured more than 70 go. This is terrible sustainable damage, but small for the high population density of the Haret Hreik area.
This is the house in Beirut where Fouad Shukur, from Hezbollah, lives.
AFP
In Tehran, the missiles were launched a few hours later, before dawn Wednesday, taking advantage of the fact that Haniyeh had attended the swearing-in of the new Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian. The hug they gave was the last picture released of the Palestinian leader, Hamas. The Israelis destroyed the house he lived in, and killed one of his guards. And it was precisely on his security team that suspicions fell of leaking the situation to the Mossad, one of the most powerful spy services in the world.
The pregnancy of this strategy
These selective killings outside of Israel and Palestine are already trademark, operations of surgical precision that are necessary to prevent the conflict from escalating and would not be possible without the Mossad’s enormous ability to penetrate the ranks of the your enemy In fact, Shukur’s was Israel’s second summary execution in Beirut this year, having killed another Hamas leader, Saleh Arouri, in January.
But the list of victims is long. Very long. And he returned for a long time. In fact, the first name was written shortly after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. It belonged to the Swede Folke Bernadotte, the spokesperson of the United Nations to try to resolve the conflict caused by that announcement. Many people see his murder as the beginning of what has become a common policy, although it was not the Mossad who killed this number, but members of the Jewish extremist group Lehi posing as soldiers. who killed him with a machine gun. At the time, Israel was blamed for the attack, but its leader, Yitzhak Shamir, ended up becoming prime minister 30 years later.
Nazis on the payroll
Otto Skorzeny, from Hitler’s strongman, to Mossad operative.
Since ‘abolition’ there has been all kinds of murder. Some are more serious than others, but all procedures. Among the most surprising is that of the German scientist, Heinz Krug. He had worked in the Nazi weapons program, and in 1962 was in the service of the Egyptians, who had already fought two wars with Israel. To prevent Cairo from having more dangerous weapons – loaded with radioactive material – in the third case, Tel Aviv launched Operation Damocles, for which it hired one of Adolf Hitler’s trusted men, Otto Skorzeny, controversial figure of Nazism who lived and died in Spain.
Iran has been a favorite site of these assassinations, which have always focused on destroying the country’s military nuclear program. And one of the most shocking is that of its chief nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, whose life ended in 2020 with the theft of 15 bullets fired by a Belgian machine gun mounted on the robotic arm of a car it is parked and remotely activated. . Later we heard that it was sent in pieces to Iran, assembled in the country, and worked without the need for any work on the ground and without causing any harm. What’s more, all the work is managed from outside the Persian area and it is a minute.
It is a good reflection of the Mossad’s strategy after the Second Intifada with which the century began: the elimination of prominent people from enemy positions using the highest intelligence and cutting-edge technology. There are dozens, hundreds according to different sources. And soon, most of them fell to a weapon. Proof of this is the attack against a building near the Iranian Embassy in Damascus, the capital of Syria, in which two sailors and five other senior officers of the Revolutionary Guard were killed.
Famous fiascos
Of course, the Mossad is not impartial. There have also been cases in which it has failed: in 1975, for example, a young Moroccan was mistaken for one of the terrorists who caused the Munich Olympic massacre in 1972 – most were killed in this type of operation – and have bullets in Norway. by Mossad officers.
He has also suffered embarrassing failures, such as in 1997, when he tried to kill the head of Hamas at the time, Khaled Mashaal. The surgery took place in Amman, Jordan, and required the removal of the drug. They achieved that goal, but two Mossad members were arrested and Israel was forced to hand over the drugs to get them back. Interestingly, at that time Benjamin Netanyahu became the position of Prime Minister in which he was once again.
All this makes many wonder if this type of action, which is often labeled as state terrorism, is legal. In his essay ‘The Killing Choice: Israel’s Killing Choice Policy’, scholar Steven R. David has already asked in 2002 whether the policy is working to reduce Palestinian attacks, if they do not violate international law and are illegal for the government. democracy and, above all. , “if they respond to Israel’s national interests.” Judging by the attacks of October 7 and the current situation, its role is at least debatable.
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