As soon as the story emerged about
the entrapment of Austria’s Herr Strache, rumours started circulating that the Mossad
is behind it.
In the past, rumours about
the Mossad being behind a variety of clandestine operations, the outcome
of which was deemed to be in Israel’s interest, pleased some, amused others,
made some Israelis and diaspora Jews proud and probably strengthened the preconception
about Israel’s all-powerful secret service. Antisemites who believed in a Jewish
world domination conspiracy will also have had this pet theory of theirs reinforced.
These days, it has become
fashionable to see Antisemitism everywhere and one finds various commentators
speaking of this Mossad rumour as antisemitic. Relax, it ain’t
necessarily so.
Whoever did it, Israelis
generally are pleased by the notion of a successful Mossad that gets
whatever it wants. Moreover, the Mossad itself has been said to occasionally
take credit for operations that were not theirs. Planting false stories in international
media is all in a day’s work for secret services.
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