Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: The truth about the Mossad

Over the years, the Mossad's image has been badly tarnished at home as
well as abroad. It was blamed in part for failing to get wind of
Egyptian-Syrian plans for the devastating attack that launched the
1973 Yom Kippur war. Critics wondered whether the spies had got their
priorities right by focusing on hunting down Palestinian gunmen in the
back alleys of European cities, when they should have been stealing
secrets in Cairo and Damascus. The Mossad also played a significant,
though still little-known, role in the covert supply of arms to
Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran to help fight Saddam Hussein's Iraq, as part
of the Iran-Contra scandal during Ronald Reagan's presidency.....
It has, in addition, suffered occasional blows from its own
disgruntled employees. In 1990, a Canadian-born former officer called
Victor Ostrovsky blew the whistle on its internal organisation,
training and methods, revealing codenames including "Kidon" (bayonet),
the unit in charge of assassinations. An official smear campaign
failed to stop Ostrovsky's book, so the agency kept quiet when another
ostensibly inside account came out in 2007. It described the use of
shortwave radios for sending encoded transmissions, operations in Iran
for collecting soil samples, and joint operations with the CIA against
Hezbollah....
But the worst own goal came in 1997, during Binyamin Netanyahu's first
term as prime minister. Mossad agents tried but failed to assassinate
Khaled Mash'al – the same Hamas leader who is now warning of
retaliation for Mabhouh's murder – by injecting poison into his ear in
Amman, Jordan. Using forged Canadian passports, they fled to the
Israeli embassy, triggering outrage and a huge diplomatic crisis with
Jordan. Danny Yatom, the then Mossad chief, was forced to quit.
Ephraim Halevy, a quietly spoken former Londoner, was brought back
from retirement to clear up the mess....
The Dubai assassination, however, may yet turn out to be far more
damaging – not least because the political and diplomatic context has
changed in the last decade. Israel's reputation has suffered an
unprecedented battering, reaching a new low during last year's
Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip. "In the current climate, the
traces left behind in Dubai are likely to lead to very serious harm to
Israel's international standing," the former diplomat Alon Liel
commented yesterday.....
Yossi Melman, the expert on intelligence for Israel's Haaretz
newspaper, worries that, as before the 1973 war, the Israeli
government may be getting it wrong by focusing on the wrong enemy –
the Palestinians – instead of prioritising Iran and Hizbullah.
"The Mossad is not Murder Inc, like the Mafia; its goal is not to take
vengeance on its enemies," he wrote this week. "'Special operations'
like the assassination in Dubai – if this indeed was a Mossad
operation – have always accounted for a relatively small proportion of
its overall activity. Nevertheless, these are the operations that give
the organisation its halo, its shining image. This is ultimately
liable to blind its own ranks, cause them to become intoxicated by
their own success, and thus divert their attention from their primary
mission."....
In western countries, including Britain, there was widespread anger at
the 1,400 Palestinian casualties of the Gaza war. Barack Obama has
declared the occupation "intolerable". Netanyahu heads the most
rightwing coalition in Israel's history; his famous quip that the
Middle East is a "tough neighbourhood" no longer seems to justify
playing dirty....
It is a novelty of this episode that ordinary Israeli citizens are
angry that their identities appear to have been stolen by their own
government's secret servants – one reason why the Mossad chief Meir
Dagan may find his days are numbered.

 wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/19/ian-black-mossad-dubai
Ian Black è coautore con Benny Morris di "Israel's Secret Wars: A
History of Israel's Intelligence Services", per cui è inattaccabile...

 Over the years, the Mossad's 
Smettila di rodere, Bombacci.
E impara a perdere.
-- 
Tb (bieco illuminista)

 wrote:
come ti fanno soffrire certe vittorie, non ci riesce nessuno

 come ti fanno soffrire certe vittorie, non ci riesce nessuno
Quindi perché continui a rodere furiosamente?
C'è qualcosa che non torna, Bombacci.
-- 
Tb (bieco illuminista)

 Quindi perché
continui a cercare di respingere in ogni post in cui si parla di Dubai
la figura di merda che avete fatto?


Rilassati Bombacci, sembri tarantolato.
E ovviamente non ti intendi di ciò attorno a cui stai compulsivamente
rodendo.
-- 
Tb (bieco illuminista)

 Rilassati
io lo sono, sei tu in pirlamento perenne da una settimana.


Perché copincolli freneticamente e ti rispondi da solo?
Non ti intendi di credibilità, Bombacci.
-- 
Tb (bieco illuminista)

 Jordan. Danny Yatom, the then Mossad chief, was forced to quit.
Ricorda l'Economist questa settimana che la vittima fu avvelenata, ma un
paio di elementi della squadra della morte furono presi. I giordani
dissero chiaramente agli israeliani che se Khaled fosse morto, i due
israeliani sarebbero stati condannati a morte. Anche Clinton fece
pressioni, e fu inviato un antidoto. In seguito i due sicari furono
scambiati con lo sceicco Ahmed Yassin. 
Dimenticavo: i due utilizzarono passaporti canadesi, e l'ambasciatore
canadese in Israele fu richiamato. Un grande successo del governo
Netanyahu.

  Un grande successo del governo  Netanyahu.
roba da matti. chissa' come mai gli israeliani lo hanno votato di nuovo. 
Magari c'entra la religione (se solo si fossero seguiti i consigli di 
padre Gemelli, adesso avremmo la pace in medio oriente. E tanti, tanti 
battesimi).

 roba da matti. chissa' come mai gli israeliani lo hanno votato di nuovo.
a meno che non si voglia ritenere persino l'affare Meshaal un
successo, è probabile che la maggioranza degli israeliani sia pirla.

roba da matti. chissa' come mai gli israeliani lo hanno votato di nuovo. 
Anche in italia continuano a votare berlusconi.
Quindi nahum dimostra di essere uno politologo molto scarso.