Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has a love affair with Israel that has no bounds.
It’s therefore unsurprising that he supports Israel’s recent assassination in Dubai:
The complaints leveled against Israel by European countries and Australia, regarding the alleged misuse of passports by the Mossad in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, ring hollow and smack of blatant hypocrisy.… Whoever did kill Mahmoud al-Mabhouh—whether it was the Israeli Mossad or someone else—clearly did have their agents use stolen or forged passports.… Big deal.
Every good intelligence agency uses stolen and forged passports.… The British have been especially adept at this means of spycraft.… No country that uses fake passports in their intelligence operations has the moral authority to complain about the alleged misuse of passports in this case.… The only ones that have a legitimate grievance are those individuals whose passports may have been misused without their knowledge.
I guess it’s the job of foreign ministries to complain publicly when other nations do what they themselves do secretly.… Hypocrisy is, after all, the homage that vice pays to virtue.… I’m reminded of the famous scene in Casablanca, when officer Renault declares, “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” A croupier then approaches Renault, and hands him a roll of currency: “Your winnings, sir.”
The hypocrisy in this case seems even more blatant than usual.… Is it because Israel is the alleged offender, and the world has gotten accustomed to singling out Israel for double standard condemnation?
Shortly after the terrorist attacks in Bali, which killed a large number of Australian tourists, I had the opportunity to meet with the Australian Prime Minister.… I was writing a book at the time on preemption, and I asked him whether he would have authorized a preemptive attack on the terrorist who killed Australian citizens, if such an attack would have saved their lives.… His response was that Australia would have done anything it could, to prevent these terrorist attacks.… Anything, I guess, except misusing passports!… Is there anybody who believes that Australia would not have used forged or stolen passports to prevent the Bali massacres?… If Great Britain could have stopped the London subway attack by misusing passports, would M6 have allowed the terrorism to go forward in the name of preserving passport integrity?… Of course not.… The same is true of Spain with regard to the Madrid bombing and to every other country in the world that seeks to prevent terrorism.… Well, if the Mossad did in fact kill al-Mabhouh, they too did it to prevent the killing of their innocent civilians.