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Mossad gangsters in Dubai

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, credited with organizing the fighting force of the Palestinian liberation group Hamas, was assassinated in Dubai by Israeli Mossad agents, perhaps working together with other professional killers. That, at least, is what everyone believes and is the most reasonable explanation of his murder.

A myth has grown about the Mossad — a Hebrew word meaning Institute, short for Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations. Its professional killers are supposed to work flawlessly, expertly, with dedication and ruthlessness. The ruthless part is true and obvious. The rest is a myth useful to the Israeli rulers. The Israeli army created this myth before its 2006 defeat in Lebanon and last year’s failure in Gaza.

Like its counterparts in the “dirty-tricks” departments of imperialist spy agencies like the CIA, Britain’s MI6 and France’s General Directorate, the Mossad carries out murders. It operates much like killers trained or hired by organized crime gangs to rub out someone refusing to pay protection money.

The Mossad operates under the Israeli flag, a flag tied up completely with the brutal suppression of an entire people. Thus these gangsters have become specialists in suppression and repression of popular rebellion. Mossad agents are sent all over the globe, providing advice and training to repressive states, for example, to Colombia and other pro-U.S. countries in Latin America where a large U.S. presence in this role might awaken mass anger.

The Israelis offer this training as part of their contribution to maintaining imperialist domination over the world and in return for other support. The imperialists and their Israeli clients stick together in jointly suppressing liberation struggles.

While carrying out the murder of Al-Mabhouh, the Mossad agents were recorded on closed-circuit videos that abound in Dubai. The local police publicized this on YouTube. They also revealed that the suspect Mossad agents used passports from Britain, Canada and Ireland. These countries, also part of the imperialist world, lodged diplomatic complaints, which the Israelis discount as public relations.

But for the Israelis it is bad public relations. With each blatant murder and war crime the Israeli state commits, the propaganda attempting to support its legitimacy loses the little force it retains. Israeli war crimes in Gaza a year ago propelled a movement demanding boycott, divestment and sanctions against the Zionist state. The Dubai assassination, which once more exposes Israel’s criminal character, is sure to push that BDS movement another step forward.