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If their spies are so smart, so feared, and so capable, why is Israel losing the war?

Wanted:  A Few Good Mossad Agents



“Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys. Look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death!” -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War It is difficult to imagine any one group more feared, lionized and idealized than the Israeli Mossad.

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I find it incredibly amusing since Jewish men are notoriously imagined as henpecked and scholarly. The women in the Mossad should be no surprise to anyone. There is even that joke about two Jewish accountants, but I digress. When did this new image of the Jewish man materialize in the world’s imagination and why? The when is the easy part, the rebirth of Israel in 1948. Of course there were stories about Jewish heroes like Judah Maccabbee, but let’s not forget Moses didn’t take Egypt by force but by guile. It was always brains that Jewish people fell back upon in times of need. Brains not brawn seemed to be the mantra until it was evident the time had come to reclaim the land of Israel for the Jewish people. Then, suddenly a new breed of Jewish men was born. Palmach, Irgun, Haganah and they all morphed into Mossad. A Jewish James Bond. The Israel Bond that Sol Weinstein wrote about in his spy series. Queen Esther was no longer needed to save the Jewish people; the Mossad had come to town and was taking over the fight. Unlike the CIA or MI5, these warriors were spies on a mission. It wasn’t a day job, a chance to play cops and robbers, a patriotic exercise. These were men and women with a life goal, to save the Land of Israel and the Jewish People. Nationalism is a wonderful feeling. Americans burst with pride when we stand at a ballgame and sing the national anthem, providing Roseanne isn’t singing. We swell when our soldiers are heroic, we love the flag, hot dogs and a Fourth of July outing complete with apple pie and ice cream. It’s in our DNA. Love of country is a beautiful thing. Our spies fight and die for us each day and they are heroes to every patriotic citizen. Mossad also feel this love of country, but when your country is tied to your God, add ten more levels of dedication and determination into the mix. It’s an unbeatable recipe, and it has made them feared and regaled in story and legend around the world. The mere word, Mossad, conjures up a dark, handsome brooding Israeli with the ability to look through you like an x-ray machine and kill you with the snap of his or her fingers. They are not simply trained they are infused with generations of Jewish knowledge, perseverance and mothers who considered them God. They know all, see all and can do all. Now that we have established their lineage, I must ask the obvious question: Why is Israel failing? If their spies are so smart, so feared, and so capable, why is Israel losing the war? Is it because we no longer possess the confidence to heed our own inner voices in lieu of the voices of false friends and enemies? Do we bow to the whims of other nations and ignore what is best for Israel? Are we more worried about how we appear than how much we are feared? Should we not be suspicious and angry when the United States is enraged by Mossad’s murder of terrorist-murderers in Dubai? Would they have exhibited rage over Israel’s rescue at Entebbe? Or the countless times Mossad had fed the U.S. vital information it did not have the ability to acquire for itself? How does a country like Israel with the top scientific minds, technological genius and most feared spies lose? Where have we gone wrong? We should be kicking the butt and instead we are hanging on by a thread. When I hear stories like the Flotilla was a PR disaster because of Israel’s intelligence failure, I go limp. My first thought is, “What, the Mossad? No way. They know all. If Israel cannot count on one of its most powerful assets, where are we as a nation?” Has something happened to our fearless spies? Perhaps. The generation that fought for the Jewish homeland and created Mossad is gone. Now we may have morphed into an intelligence gathering force in lieu of a force to be reckoned with. Okay, I’m sure they are better trained, even smarter than your average spy, and I am in no way faulting or belittling Mossad. I am grateful Israel has such a brave and brilliant force. But is it really enough when that intrinsic desperation and determination is lacking? When it’s not about simply protecting a country, but saving one? When there is no institutional memory of a concentration camp, a tattoo on an arm? Yes, there is still the reality of the terrorism Israel lives with daily, and that is of course what propels and probably sets Mossad so far above their foreign counterparts. Still, I wonder. I worry that Israel is going soft. Taking her existence for granted. Is an unthinkable intelligence failure like the Flotilla of Lies a precursor to greater flaws? Or is it a clever ploy in the tradition of Sun Tzu to lull Israel’s enemies into a false sense of security? We need a few good men and women who feel the fight, not learn to fight. We need spies who are not protecting just a nation, but their religious heritage. Mossad are the best-trained spies on earth. But their true greatness stemmed from the fact they reported not to their superiors, but were accountable to the Man upstairs. He is looking for a few good men and women to save the Jewish People. Know anyone willing to sign on? The pay stinks, but the perks are simply heavenly. [In this Postcard, “Mossad” refers to the collective Israeli security apparatus and intelligence services.]


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Norma Zager -- Bio and Archives

In the series “Postcards from Israel – Postcards from Home,” Ari Bussel and Norma Zager invite readers throughout the world to join them as they present reports about Israel, homeland of the Jewish People, as seen by two sets of eyes. This “point - counter-point” presentation has, since 2008, become part of our lives.  It can be found in numerous websites around the world as well as in print in the USA.


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