Mossad, the Israeli foreign intelligence service, won its reputation for ruthlessness through its determination to hunt down Israel’s enemies around the world.
Adolf Eichmann, who designed Hitler’s Final Solution, was kidnapped from Argentina. The men who carried out the Munich Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes in 1972 were tracked and killed one by one over the next 15 years, along with innocent victims, one a case of mistaken identity.
In recent years, the principle has remained the same but the technology has improved. If the mysterious case of Hezbollah’s exploding pagers is found to be the work of Mossad, as most people in Lebanon were assuming on Tuesday, it would simply be the most striking example yet of this trend.
