Mishagoyim

"Mishagoyim" was my mother-in-law's comment on the winter Olympics from Vancouver, when she watched men and women shooting down ice tubes on a tray, skiing downhill at suicidal speeds, and jumping off high hills, for what? The word is a Yiddish amalgamation of "meshuggeneh goyim" or "crazy non-Jews." Not many Jews doing that! But Israel reopresented at Vancouver by the Zaretskys who are a couple from Russia in ice dancing and currently they are in tenth place in the competition. The Israeli Olympic team also includes another skier. We are not much of a winter country.

But, Israel won the gold medal for assassinations, that's much more important. I'd give Mossad 10 points for execution, 8 for achievement, and 2 for follow through. Having the mugshots of your assassination team on the news and in the internet cannot be considered a great success. Nevertheless is sends the message, that Israel knows the moves of the bad guys and can deal with them wherever they are. Mabhouh was a wanted war criminal having killed two IDF soldiers, was the arms procurer of Hamas from Iran and was presumably on his way there. The fact that Dubai was his stopover does not make them totally innocent, even though they claimed not to know his whereabouts.

I have written to the Head of Mossad, Haim G. to offer myself as a prime example of a British Israeli, prepared to give my passport and myself to the cause. However, it seems that I am not up to their standard of derring-do, also they have little call for passports with the name "Cohen." I am surprised that no Arab country has accused Shachar Pe'er, who was playing in the Dubai Tennis Open during the time of the Mabhouh incident, of being involved in it. She might have been the organizer of the assassination, even though she managed to get into the semi-finals, where she lost to Venus Williams. Stranger claims have been made by the genuflecting anti-Israel forces.