Europe's Misplaced Outrage

Passport ‘rage’
EDITORIAL
19/02/2010
The pigheaded refusal to acknowledge that sometimes the ends justify the means reflects Europe's moral impoverishment.

Dahu Khalfan Tamim now has a world-class reputation for detective work. The head of the Dubai police swiftly determined that Hamas’s Mahmoud Mabhouh did not die of natural causes at the five-star Bustan Rotana Hotel on Jan. 20. He was assassinated.

Let’s for the sake of argument grant that Israel did away with Mabhouh; that he was not killed by Iran or over some intra-Palestinian dispute, and that clues pointing to Israeli culpability are genuine.

Mabhouh certainly deserved to be assassinated by Israel. Hamas declared war on Israel. And he co-founded its military wing and was personally involved in the (separate) 1989 killings of IDF soldiers Ilan Sa’adon and Avi Sasportas.

Mabhouh was a key link in the unlawful syndicate which delivers Iranian weapons to Gaza. He was apparently tasked with importing an arsenal that would make life hellish for Israelis living in metropolitan Tel Aviv. He was, perhaps, Hamas’s equivalent to Hizbullah’s Imad Mughniyeh, whose car blew up in Damascus two years ago.

YOU CAN tell a great deal about the moral compass and political leanings of a society by observing its reaction to the Mabhouh liquidation.

There is unease in Europe because the purported assassins identified by Dubai were travelling under forged French, German, Irish and British passports; and identities of Israelis with dual-citizenship were utilized.

Even The Times of London, whose editorial page has been sympathetic toward Israel, expressed chagrin over the affair, saying this country had shown poor regard for the “future security of British passport holders overseas.” Frankly, there is little reason to think that the tradecraft employed in this assassination – which we will not second guess at this stage – jeopardizes anyone.

Actually, what troubles us is the question of whose passport Mabhouh was traveling under and why he was allowed to enter neutral Dubai on gun-running business.

Of course, that’s not how the British see it. The BBC’s Jeremy Bowen warned that if Israel had used British passports for “nefarious” purposes – meaning sending Mabhouh to his Maker – Bowen expected, or would it be more accurate to say, hoped for, “a crisis” in relations between London and Jerusalem.

The Guardian quoted a Foreign Office mandarin as gloating: “Relations were in the freezer before this. They are in the deep freeze now.” The paper then grumbled about the British government’s “supine” response to the assassination, editorializing against the government’s proposal to lift the threat of lawfare. The Guardian wants visiting Israeli ministers to continue to worry about facing Palestinian-inspired “war crimes” charges.

No loss. I would hardly call Britain an ally of Israel anyway. In fact there's a good case to be made that England is an outright enemy of Israel.

As usual no outrage that dubai allowed itself to be a haven for hamas, weapons smuggling from Iran to hamas, money laundering for islamic terrorists and so forth. No outrage over this terrorist's murder of Israelis. And now interpol is treating the Mossad like criminals while hamas terrorists operate freely around the world, without fear that interpol will come after them. It really is an insane, upside down world. And Europe is completely in the grip of moral depravity. I would advise the Jews of Europe to leave as soon as possible because it will only get worse.

As far as I can see, Europe is a lost cause and deservedly so. I have come to the point where I do not care and in fact I'm glad to see Europe go down due to its vicious hostility and hatred towards Israel and Jews. And also for Europe's decades long dirty deals with the oil producing muslim states and anti-Zionist policies. Perhaps they are receiving divine retribution.