[Leondros]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Slow down and read these posts better, dude. You were defending pointman's heinous posting history because you didn't carefully read what he was writing and what people were responding to.

Now you're correcting me that assassinating political leaders on foreign soil is not international protocol - no ####. I specifically said I was in support of Israel doing that in violation of international protocol.

Yeah, nobody said this will be easy. You're going to have to slip into places, assassinate these guys and slip back out. Assassinations will have to look like accidents. No fk ups, boys.

I believe Israel can handle this. They've done it before with their Nazi hunting (or at least I saw a movie about that I think was based on a true story, IDK).

I like this way because it doesn't decimate the infrastructure of Gaza while murdering thousands of civilians. I'm quirky like that, though.



Am I saying it's okay? No, not really. I am saying it's rational.

Surely you'd concede Hamas is much weaker militarily than Israel, right? That's basic.

How, then, would Hamas amass any sort of military capability for defense (or offence) unless they did it underground/covertly?

Do I like that they're hiding amongst civilians? Of course not. I understand the strategy, though. It's, frankly, a good strategy - particularly when you aren't concerned about your own citizens' safety.

See, the Palestinians are victims of Hamas and Israel. It's one of the reasons why I don't like the fact they're being slaughtered. They're in an impossible position.

I guess if the question is, who is more culpable for the bombings of civilian infrastructure: Hamas leadership or the Israeli gov't/military, I'd have to say the Israelis because they are the ones dropping bombs.



I like how you think following random international protocols at the cost of thousands of innocent lives is more noble than breaking international protocols to kill a few dozen people who are actually responsible for October 7.

That's absolutely wild.

If only Israel had a certain, famous intelligence agency that had the experience, history and know how on how to conduct such operations... Oh wait.

A division of Mossad:

Caesarea: conducts special operations and houses the Kidon (Hebrew: כידון, "bayonet", "javelin" or a "spear") unit, an elite group of assassins.[8]

A special unit called Metsada allegedly runs "small units of combatants" whose missions include "assassinations and sabotage".

The kidon are Mossad's elite assassins. Recruits receive two years of training at Mossad's training facility near Herzliya.

Operation Damocles – A campaign of assassination and intimidation against German rocket scientists employed by Egypt in building missiles.[citation needed]
A bomb sent to the Heliopolis rocket factory killed five Egyptian workers, allegedly sent by Otto Skorzeny on behalf of the Mossad.
Heinz Krug, 49, the chief of a Munich company supplying military hardware to Egypt disappeared in September 1962 and is believed to have been assassinated by Otto Skorzeny on behalf of the Mossad.

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In 1965, the Mossad assassinated Latvian Nazi collaborator Herberts Cukurs

Mossad has been accused of assassinating Masoud Alimohammadi, Ardeshir Hosseinpour, Majid Shahriari, Darioush Rezaeinejad and Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan; scientists involved in the Iranian nuclear program. It is also suspected of being behind the attempted assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Fereydoon Abbasi.[51] Meir Dagan, who served as Director of Mossad from 2002 until 2009, while not taking credit for the assassinations, praised them in an interview with a journalist, saying "the removal of important brains" from the Iranian nuclear project had achieved so-called "white defections", frightening other Iranian nuclear scientists into requesting that they be transferred to civilian projects.

Mossad was accused of being behind the assassination of Aziz Asbar, a senior Syrian scientist responsible for developing long-range rockets and chemical weapons programs. He was killed in a car bomb in Masyaf on August 5, 2018.

In 2018, Hamas and the family of Malaysian-based Hamas engineer and university lecturer Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh have accused the Mossad of assassinating him. In April 2018, al-Batsh was shot dead by two men on a motorbike in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi described the suspects as Europeans with links to an unidentified foreign intelligence agency. In response, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman denied that Mossad was involved in al-Batsh's assassination and suggested that his death was the result of an internal Palestinian dispute. Hamas also issued a statement describing Batsh as a "martyr" and "distinguished scientist who has widely contributed to the energy sector."

The alleged killing of Atef Bseiso, a top intelligence officer of the PLO, in Paris in 1992. French police believe that a team of assassins followed Atef Bseiso from Berlin, where that first team connected with another team to close in on him in front of a Left Bank hotel, where he received three head-shots at point blank range.

The assassination of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh – a senior Hamas military commander – in Dubai, 2010, was suspected to be the work of Mossad, and there were eight Irish passports (six of which were used) fraudulently obtained by the Israeli embassy in Dublin, Ireland for use by alleged Mossad agents in the operation.

There are so many more references, I had to stop. But surely Israel would never consider doing this per Blankall, it is far too risky...

Assassinating and summarily executing political leaders on foreign soil is not international protocol. Israel would get in a ton of crap for that. What happens when inevitably foreign nationals get caught in the cross-fire? Is Qatar going to allow team of Israeli assassins onto their soil? Israel would have to trespass onto Qatari soil, probably with fake passports, then somehow get to guarded men there, without incurring any collateral damage.