The arrogance of Israeli spy firms

Asa Winstanley
Israel has long been a global hub of terrorism. It is part of a global terrorist network run by the US empire. Israel’s spy agencies, such as the Mossad, are a notorious gang of killers, kidnappers and thugs.

Israel’s weapons industry has been a great asset to the cause of US imperialism over the years, arming various dictators and counter-revolutionary forces around the world at times when it was inconvenient for the hegemon to do so directly. The Iran-Contra scandal is a case in point.

Another example was Israeli aid for various other reactionary dictatorships in Latin America in the 1980s. The author of a book about the history of the AK-47 automatic rifle tells the story about how Osama bin Laden’s own Kalashnikov was provided by Israel via the CIA: it had originally bean seized in Lebanon after PLO fighters were made to evacuate Beirut in 1982.

It was the Mossad which planted the car bomb which murdered Ghassan Kanafani in Beirut, the famous Palestinian leftist playwright and activist. It was the Mossad which kidnapped the brave Israeli nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu, using a “honey trap” to lure him to Italy and take him by force back to the country he’d fled, after leaking to The Sunday Times proof of Israel’s nuclear weapons.

The Mossad is adept at killing Palestinian civilians and political leaders. It also likes to exaggerate its real capabilities, as a sort of psychological warfare against its enemies, and against the wider Arab world.

This is not to say that Israeli spy agencies are not a threat; clearly they are. But, like any covert organization, and as with war in general, it’s in the interests of the parties to a war to inflate their capabilities.

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