Maybe, or maybe the fact Europe has increasing percentages of Muslims that gain more and more financial and political power in Europe, don't know.
They have not inherited the mantle from progressive European liberals yet and the simple fact of the matter is if Europeans did not like what they were saying (or at the least, truly opposed it), they would shut it down with any of their hate speech laws. They don't though.
The only severe part of Mabhouh assassination was that Israel got caught. everyone employ the same tactics, more or less and it's not like anyone actually thought that Ireland or Australia assassinated him. The US and UK hacked into Israel drones years before which in my opinion is far more hostile than using fake passports from a certain country (Again, a tactic that every agency employ).
When the US and UK hacked Israel's drones, they were drones carrying out military strikes, drones Israel had falsely said were not carrying missiles. This was during Obama's attempt to make peace with Iran and reintroduce them to the world community, and the Americans needed to make sure the IDF were not about to launch a military strike on Iran. This was after through eavesdropping, Israel obtained information from confidential US briefings, informants and diplomatic contacts in Europe, and that's not what bothered the Obama administration - what bothered them was that this information was leaked to American legislators in an attempt to undermine the Iranian deal which was a deliberate attempt at sabotaging American diplomacy. That to me strikes me as far more hostile than trying to find out who Israel is attacking with drones they're very poorly arguing are unarmed. Simply put, dishonesty begets distrust. Israel had undermined US diplomacy with hacking and information leaking, and they were not giving honest answers, and were mobilizing armed drones? What was the US to do, remain in the dark?
It's also not a tactic every agency employs, and it's incredibly scandalous because doing so is a war crime just as flying another nation's flag on your warships or wearing another nation's uniform is a war crime. When you use British passports to carry out assassinations, the backlash hits British people and puts their lives in danger. I do agree in quite a cheeky way that their real crime was getting caught, but stealing the identities of twelve real Britons means that if someone wanted to avenge the assassination they might accidentally kill innocent unaware Britons for an assassination they had nothing to do with. That is why this is so serious, this isn't even something like infiltration or just getting pass border security, this was the assassination of a high ranking commander. At least when the Russians come over here to kill people they do it under their own flag, with balls. And they certainly don't drag their allies through the mud whilst doing it, you won't see them running around with fake Belorussian passports! I am willing to overlook such actions, but they are not standard and they are nothing short of treacherous. Least of all after explicitly promising not to use British passports for this purpose. These are the kinds of actions which test alliances to breaking point, and Israel's already on thin ice as it has a past reputation for blowing up its friends metaphorically and literally :
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Moreover you may not grasp how important British passports are, especially to the British. They have a reputation as one of the most valuable and trustworthy in the world, they have gotten British citizens out of execution before, which is why they were probably used by Mossad to begin with. If they get a reputation for being used by assassins, that is a distrust that carries onto all passport holders - we have many mercantile workers who must travel across the world in dangerous places everywhere from Africa to the ME to China, and every day even have lawyers who specialize in freeing British citizens from security forces trying to extort them. Don't need this to take away one of their crutches ;
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We wouldn't expect this of Russia, and we have strictly business and sports relations with them. For one we called ally to do so was salt in the wounds. Wasn't even just us, with passports from Aussies, French and Germans. With the prospect of dual citizenry, the exact identity of who the assassins were would mean that ruling out the Irish or French e.t.c. would not be possible. Six years on and so many nations that were the most friendly to Israel have either turned their backs or held their connections with Israel as an embarrassment to their own public, you can't betray other nations' trust and expect things to be the same because everyone else might be doing it. Just look at the reactions, Prime Ministers and Chiefs of Security all saying this was profoundly disturbing, not the acts of friends, a global threat to national security and to the security of travelers. Israel cannot survive without friends, and it can't have friends if it isolates itself by abusing any trust it is given, it's pretty much how it works on the individual level to the top, no one makes friends with a dickhead they know will snake them :
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I think it is especially pertinent here, I remember when UR was talking about how Ukraine should pursue a policy of diminishment of Russia at any cost and I advised against it because there really are moments where at what cost you have gone too far and dug yourself into your own funeral - pretty much the same principle for every nation, and especially here. Trying to destroy your enemies at any cost will almost always end up at too steep a cost, where you'll lose everything even in victory.
Also, i think that more than Israel needs of explaining what they were doing assassinating a terrorist arms dealer, Dubai should explain what they were doing harbouring such a lovely person.
I think this is a facet of the UAE being divided into Emirates, some of which are more ambivalent to Hamas or supportive
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