The Israeli intelligence-terrorist outfit Mossad has crafted for itself among the gullible, particularly Americans, an image of a daring and competent agency. But, in actuality, the Mossad is actually of very low grade.

Consider these examples:

This story in Haaretz: The Beirut-based Arab language newspapers Al-Akhbar and A-Safir reported that the officer, who goes by the code name “Adib”, was suspected of heading a spy ring that passed along information to Israeli intelligence.

These buffoons do not know that Adib is not a code name, but the man’s actually name: Adib Alam.

Then there is the recent memoir by former Mossad head Efraim Halevy: Man in the Shadows: Inside the Middle East Crisis with a Man who Led the Mossad.

First of all, while claiming to know Arabic, Halevy only refers to Hamas in his book as “Khammas”.

But even more reflecting of his ignorance, on pages 7-8 Halevy describes a conversation with former C.I.A. chief Jim Angleton as to whether Yasser Arafat knew any German because, they believed, Arafat studied in Munich. There were both entirely wrong, Arafat not only knew not a word in German but he never even studied in Germany! There were confusing Arafat with Hani Al-Hasan. Even as he wrote his memoir, Halevy still does not realize that he was entirely wrong.

Then there is Mossad’s adventure in Europe. During Mossad’s effort to obtain revenge for the Munich killings, a hit team was sent into Europe. Only one of the ten people identified by Israel was actually involved in Munich, and Mossad went around killing innocent Palestinian poets and one Palestinian - in Paris - who was actually working with Israeli leftists, and Israel purposely killed him because by killing does Palestinians committed to negotiations Israel can continue to pretend that it is the Palestinians and not its own militarism that is prohibiting the emergency of peace. But the Mossad did more than that:

On July 21st 1973, when `Ali Bushiki, a Moroccan waiter resting with his pregnant wife around a swimming pool in Norway, was murdered by that assassination team merely because `Ali resembled what the hit team thought Abu Hasan Salamah looked like. (The Norwegian police tracked and arrested the killers, but they were all released in a secret deal with the Israeli governement–is that not nice?)

That’s Zionism for you.

And, finally, The Economist: Those who like to believe that Mossad, the Israeli secret service, is the epitome of spookish efficiency may find themselves blinking at some of the mishaps and near-disasters that its posse encountered in Argentina.

It is no surprise the former C.I.A. officer Robert Baer once stated: “Let me tell you something, what people most err in in the Middle East, and I am responsible for my words to the end, is related to Israeli intelligence. To be sure, they can kill somebody in Paris or Rome or killing the wrong person in Finland or wherever else they did that in [he meant Norway]. To be sure they know Europe and Palestinians, and they know many things about Palestinians, but when it comes to the rest of the Middle East, I have not seen anything from their part that indicated their knowledge of those countries.”

And that former C.I.A. chief Stansfield Turner once stated that the Mossad gets a C for actual work and an A for public relations.

Let there be no doubt. The Mossad can kill people, and it kills innocents on a regular basis. But neither in that nor in its ignorance is there anything to be impressed by with the Mossad. The only ones impressed are Steven Spielberg and Zionist thugs.