“BLOODY RECIPROCITY”
When
international law is not respected and impunity is the rule for some, the
Talion law prevails
By
Charles H. Slim
Some fifty years ago, Europe had become the scene of violent street
crimes and others not so public that they remained a mystery to public opinion
and even to local authorities. It was a clandestine struggle that took place in
a particular geopolitical context. Thus sticky bombs in a car or in an
apartment, executions with silenced pistols, or point-blank killings on a
street in broad daylight became a common way of settling issues between Tel
Aviv and the PLO.
For years, the Mossad had been able to carry out this
type of action, relying on the state structure provided by Israel and the
complicities that it wove with the governments of Western countries (especially
the European ones), which it kept subject to blame for the Holocaust. In this
way, Tel Aviv and its followers argued that the PLO was an organization that
committed terrorist acts against Israeli interests and for that, Israel would
use the same methods that, incidentally, were not unknown to it.
It was thus that Israel carried out many covert
actions that were technically terrorist attacks that were never prosecuted in
court in part, due to the support of its local “Sayan” networks and the
political impunity that it enjoys for its connections with the estate public
and politicians of the states where he attacked without ruling out bribery and
extortion as other recruitment methods.
His covert actions in Iraq were memorable for their
vileness and brutality. The unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Saddam Hussein
long before the 1991 Gulf War was a part of history Tel Aviv would like to
forget, losing several men among its failures. But this did not prevent him
from conspiring continuously and with the support of Zionist organizations in
the US Congress to instigate military intervention. It is even known that
Mossad advisers after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 participated in the torture
sessions of men and women in the “Black Rooms” installed in the concentration
camps run by the Americans.
In the same vein, when the murders and disappearances
of Iraqi scientists began to gain prominence, especially those dedicated to the
area of nuclear development, many did not hesitate to point their finger at
Israel. And they were certainly not wrong. With the collaboration of the
Americans (particularly with the Counterinsurgency programs of General David
Petreaus and the then Director of Intelligence and Special Operations General
Michael T. Flynn) and taking advantage of the state of chaos, precisely
established by the invaders, the assassin teams Mossad members were able to
penetrate Baghdad without difficulty and do their dirty work unimpeded.
Tel Aviv and in particular the Zionist circle headed
by Benjamin Netanyahu believed that they could do the same in Iran and succeed.
For this, they have deployed for years a huge battery of measures and actions
with the intention of discrediting it in the face of global public opinion and
then progressively destabilizing it internally in an attempt to recreate a
situation similar to that of its Arab neighbor.
Since Ayatollah Rulloha Khomeini and his Islamic
revolution came to power in 1979, Israel was exposed in what it had really done
when it “selflessly” aided the puppet regime of Sha Reza Palevi. Prisons where
torture and harassment against dissidents were practiced, supervised by Mossad,
were some of the marks that were exposed. Since that time, Tehran has been a
direct opponent of Israeli expansionist policies that target Palestinian Arabs
(regardless of whether they are Christian or Muslim).
When the attacks occurred in Buenos Aires in 1992 and
1994, Tel Aviv and Argentine Zionist circles (without the slightest proof of
this) did not take long to direct their accusations against the PLO and
indirectly against Syria and later when those arguments lost credibility and
They were not supported by concrete evidence, they directed their complaints
against Iran and the Lebanese “Party of God” Hesbollah. Despite all the staged
stories (from obsequent media and journalists) and a justice conditioned by
undeniable external pressures, during these years around Iran's participation
in these acts, there is not an single evidence that supports it.
Currently upset by the help it gives Syria in the
fight against CIA assets (Daesh and Kurdish mercenaries) and its own
mercenaries disguised as “rebels” operating in Quneitra and Golan Highs, Tel
Aviv had been conspiring and attacking the republic Syrian Arab in various ways
such as air strikes, with missiles, infiltrations and terrorist attacks,
provision of weapons, explosives and financial aid to Arab mercenaries provided
by Saudi Arabia who operate under the label of "Al Qaeda", "Al
Nusra ”And other subsidiaries.
Last November 27, Israel once again carried out one of
its typical clandestine operations without expecting any retaliation. The
assassination of Fakhrizadeh was a new provocation that Tehran would not leave
unanswered and just as it did with the US after the assassination of Qassem
Soleimani in early January, it sent a strong and clear response. Let us
remember that when the CIA (with the complicity of Mossad) assassinated the
Iranian general and eight other people who accompanied him when leaving the
Baghdad airport, some time later a successful Taliban coup in Afghanistan ended
the life of Michael D'Andrea alias “Dark Prince”, a prolific assassin who
became the chief of operations for the CIA in that area and who would have had
part in the execution of the terrorist attack in Baghdad. The fact left the
heads of the Agency with their mouths open, or at least that led the press to
believe. At that time the entire CIA was shaken and the US State Department had
to publicly moderate its threats.
According to some sources, the assassination operation
of the Iranian scientist had not been authorized and it would have been only a
whim of the Netanyahu-Cohen duo who would have ordered this operation on their
own. Likewise, this could well be just a rumor to try to excuse the state of
Israel from its responsibilities before another of its terrorist acts.
On December 3, in the middle of an avenue southeast of
Tel Aviv, Fahmi Hinavi, one of the Mossad's superior operations officers, who
was mobilizing in his private car, was riddled with a precise burst of machine
gun that hit him square in the trunk and upper body. The attackers quickly
exited the highway and were lost in the dead of night. The Israeli media did
not draw quick conclusions, although several unofficial sources suggested that
this had been one of several attacks against other Israeli agents in Tel Aviv,
carried out in a coordinated way by an Iranian command that after the coup,
vanished into thin air.
Fahmi Hinavi's case could not be covered up because of
the public thoroughfare where he was killed. Even and according to some
versions they would have spoken of the participation of a car that approached Hinavi's
at a time when he was stopped at the traffic light and it was there that he
became a static target for his executors. This senior intelligence officer
would have been one of the mentors and planners of the assassination of the
Iranian scientist, with which his death is surrounded by a particular
circumstance. The data is not minor and this has aroused terror among the
Zionists and their settlers who, accustomed to going unpunished for their
crimes, are now scared of their own shadow. After this, Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and his Mossad chief Yossi Cohen have made no statements beyond the
usual nonsensical arguments.
Tehran neither confirms nor denies and certainly has
no interest in confirming its participation, but it is true that it is a coup
of satisfaction for its government after the aggression of November 27 last. Also,
it could very well have been an adjustment of the same agency seeking to erase
its traces