Some two years after the assassination of senior Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai, Mossad agents are still using foreign passports, including those of British nationals, while conducting covert intelligence operations overseas, The Times reported over the weekend.
Following Mabhouh’s death, Dubai police authorities revealed that the assassins used British, French, German and Australian passports.
According to the British newspaper, there have been several occasions when foreigners who immigrated to Israel have been asked to “lend” their passports to the Israeli intelligence agency.
The daily said new evidence indicates that foreign nationals in Israel continue to allow Mossad to use their passports — “on many occasions willingly.”
Though it never admitted that Mossad agents were behind the Hamas terrorist’s death, Israel assured London its intelligence agency would stop using British passports.
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Of course they use foreign passports. What else should they do? They can hardly go about with Israeli passports, can they? So what does anyone expect them to do? I understand why the British would rather they used Canadian passports and the Canadians would rather they used New Zealand, and the Kiwis would rather they used Belgian, etc., but the bottom line is that they need to use foreign passports, and that need gives them all the justification in the world. Their work is too vital to be hindered out of excessive courtesy towards the feelings of other countries, and those countries ought to understand this, if they weren’t blinded by antisemitism.