Mossad has made it much harder for Australians to travel in the Middle East, writes Paul Daley. If you travel to Arab countries on a passport as seemingly innocuous as one bearing the Australian coat of arms, some security authorities will still Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Google News (Israel)
The premise is this: because Israeli spies used Australian passports, Aussies are less safe in the MIddle East. For anyone who has seen Jason Borne at work, it should be painful obvious that spies use passports from all sorts of countries, all the time. The article is really a thinly veiled attempt to condemn the political assassination the Israel carries out. It's thinly veiled, and a poor argument at that.
Gives perspective of how the Mossad hit could effect Israel's relations around the world. But more interesting is the detail on how passports and travel work in the Middle East.
Basically this article gives a (justified) warning (and the reasons for it) to Aussies about traveling to parts of the Middle East.
Interesting piece, but Daley should have mentioned that both Lebanon and Syria would sign peace treaties with Israel if Israel got out of occupied portions of their territory.
I recommend David Gardner's comments in the Financial Times today, regarding the Dubai assassination: "Israel hurts its cause when it is seen as a rogue state."
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