Saturday, April 28, 2018 12:33:30 AM
Behind a Roadside Hit in Malaysia, Israeli-Palestinian Intrigue
"Forget the Ultimate Deal. The Mideast Needs the Status Quo."
By HANNAH BEECH and RONEN BERGMAN APRIL 25, 2018
Mourners carried the body of Fadi al-Batsh, a technology expert for Hamas, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
on Wednesday. He was gunned down on Saturday in the Malaysian capital, where he had lived for seven
years. Credit Fazry Ismail/European Pressphoto Agency, via Shutterstock
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Fadi al-Batsh, a well-liked electrical engineering lecturer and devout family man, always had a smile for his friends and students in the seven years since he moved to Malaysia from his native Gaza.
On Saturday, as he walked outside his apartment building in suburban Kuala Lumpur, he was gunned down in a hail of at least 14 bullets by two men on a motorcycle.
It was the Palestinian man’s undercover job — as what intelligence officials described as a technology expert for the military wing of the Gaza-based Hamas movement — that had put him in the cross hairs.
Malaysian officials said the attackers were “most likely born in the Middle East or in the West” but would not directly say who they thought was behind the killing. Mr. Batsh’s family blamed Mossad, the Israeli spy agency.
Continued: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/world/asia/hamas-mossad-malaysia.html
Extrajudicial assassination is not exactly a positive aspect of the status quo
"Forget the Ultimate Deal. The Mideast Needs the Status Quo."
By HANNAH BEECH and RONEN BERGMAN APRIL 25, 2018
Mourners carried the body of Fadi al-Batsh, a technology expert for Hamas, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
on Wednesday. He was gunned down on Saturday in the Malaysian capital, where he had lived for seven
years. Credit Fazry Ismail/European Pressphoto Agency, via Shutterstock
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Fadi al-Batsh, a well-liked electrical engineering lecturer and devout family man, always had a smile for his friends and students in the seven years since he moved to Malaysia from his native Gaza.
On Saturday, as he walked outside his apartment building in suburban Kuala Lumpur, he was gunned down in a hail of at least 14 bullets by two men on a motorcycle.
It was the Palestinian man’s undercover job — as what intelligence officials described as a technology expert for the military wing of the Gaza-based Hamas movement — that had put him in the cross hairs.
Malaysian officials said the attackers were “most likely born in the Middle East or in the West” but would not directly say who they thought was behind the killing. Mr. Batsh’s family blamed Mossad, the Israeli spy agency.
Continued: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/world/asia/hamas-mossad-malaysia.html
Extrajudicial assassination is not exactly a positive aspect of the status quo
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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