{"id":82130,"date":"2020-11-27T17:05:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T15:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=82130"},"modified":"2020-11-21T08:43:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T06:43:28","slug":"21-05-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=82130","title":{"rendered":"The Significance of the Al-Masri Assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>The Significance of the Al-Masri Assassination<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Fiamma Nirenstein <\/strong>\/ JNS.org<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A mysterious image posted to the Mossad\u2019s Facebook page on Israel\u2019s Independence Day, May 9, 2019. Photo: Facebook screenshot.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

On Aug. 7, two gunmen on motorcycles fired shots on a white Renault L90 sedan in the affluent northern Tehran suburb of Pasdaran. Initial reports identified those killed in the vehicle as Lebanese history professor Habib Daoud and his 27-year-old daughter, Maryam.<\/span><\/p>\n

Their deaths did not receive much media attention, due to other events in the region over the summer. A mere three days before the killing of Daoud and his daughter, for example, Lebanon was rocked by a massive blast at the Beirut Port; there were frequent explosions at nuclear power plants in Iran; and a heated discussion was taking place at the UN Security Council over the US\u2019s proposal to extend sanctions on the Iranian regime.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the incident would emerge as one of major significance, as Daoud, it turns out, was actually al-Qaeda\u2019s Number Two, Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah \u2014 nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri \u2014 the Egyptian-born architect of terrorist attacks on American embassies in Africa since the late 1990s. And his daughter was the widow of Hamza bin Laden, the son of Al-Qaeda mastermind Osama Bin Laden.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tehran was quick to deny that it was al-Masri who had been assassinated, because his very presence in Iran constitutes evidence of the regime\u2019s collaboration with a Sunni terrorist, for whose capture the US had offered $10 million. More importantly, the fact of his presence in the Iranian capital demonstrates the link between al-Qaeda and the Shi\u2019ite-dominated country, the world\u2019s leading state sponsor of terrorism.<\/span><\/p>\n

It also illustrates that the violent millennial war between the Sunnis and the Shi\u2019ites has been put on hold, if not buried, in the name of the unwavering common hatred towards the Western world, first and foremost America and Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

This weekend, it was revealed that Israel, in conjunction with the US, was behind al-Masri\u2019s assassination \u2014 and who knows how many others like it \u2014 in order to avert massacres, punish international terrorists, and destroy organizations on the warpath, including in Europe. It is a shared admirable aim.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to the usual prowess and incredible courage of the Mossad operatives whose identities will never be known, one cannot but praise Israel\u2019s intelligence agency for its fantastic ability to carry out such a successful operation, even in Tehran.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israel has shown its formidable capability in enemy territory. As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the Iranians on more than one occasion: \u201cWe know everything you\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It is no accident, therefore, that the US, which has sought justice for the attacks on its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224, turned to its tiny ally in the Middle East to help take aim on the territory of the ayatollahs who publicly call for its destruction.<\/span><\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump established the close relationship with Israel that allowed such a seemingly impossible operation. Though there are varying views of Trump\u2019s foreign policy, his unwavering stance towards Israel is hard to refute. The recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, for example, has had the result of dismantling the imperialist ambitions of the corrupt and bloodthirsty Ba\u2019ath regime that considered Syria, Israel and Lebanon as part of greater Syria. Trump has put an end to this engine of regional violence while \u2014 as Amotz Asa-El wrote on Friday in The Jerusalem Post<\/em> \u2014 simultaneously scaling back militarily.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s most important achievement by far, however, was dismantling the historically crazy, untenable fantasy that the Jewish people have no right to Jerusalem, the heart of their historical homeland, as their capital \u2014 and moving the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv. So just a policy was this that even President-elect Joe Biden hasn\u2019t expressed the intention of undoing it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, the recently signed Abraham Accords present a revolutionary opportunity not only for the Middle East, but also for the entire world and its three monotheistic religions. Its value lies in demonstrating that there is no conflict between the West and the Arab world, apart from the ideological one fomented by certain extremist Muslim groups.<\/span><\/p>\n

The decision taken by the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain was based on the need to overthrow the hegemonic power of Islamic terrorism and desire to create a positive dialogue with both Jews and Christians \u2014 peoples whom al-Masri and his ilk believed should be destroyed and drowned in blood.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps\u2019 Quds Force commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated by the US in January, thought the same way from the Shi\u2019ite side. And the Trump administration understood the danger that he posed to the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

The revelation of al-Masri\u2019s death at the hands of Israel and the US is one that a large part of the Islamic world will welcome with satisfaction, as it helps transcend the fear of Sunni terrorist organizations and shows that Iran can be beaten on its own terrain.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Journalist Fiamma Nirenstein<\/strong> was a member of the Italian Parliament (2008-13), where she served as vice president of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Chamber of Deputies. She served in the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, and established and chaired the Committee for the Inquiry Into Anti-Semitism. A founding member of the international Friends of Israel Initiative, she has written 13 books, including <\/em>Israel Is Us (2009). Currently, she is a fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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