Arlene Kushner On The Evacuation of Mitzpe Avichai and Mossad and Iran,

From Arlene Kushner:

January 15, 2012

"Follow-up on Mitzpe Avichai"

In my last posting I registered moral outrage at the fact that the residents of Mitzpe Avichai, including children and babies, were pushed out of their homes -- a total of 9 temporary structures in this fledging neighborhood in Kiryat Arba -- in the middle of the night, into a freezing rain, so that the homes might be destroyed. 

Today I have additional factual information:

Killing Iranian Scientists To Avert A Holocaust is Not Terrorism

We should be responding quietly, killing radical mullahs and iranian atomic scientists, supporting the simmering insurgencies within Iran, putting the mullahs' expat business interests out of business, etc. Basically, stepping on the Iranians' toes hard enough to make them reconsider their not-so-covert war against us in Iraq. And we should have been doing this since the summer 2003.
Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit, February 13, 2007

Jonathan Tobin briefly addresses the issue of why Killing Iranian Scientists is Not Terrorism

While most of the civilized world is taking grim satisfaction from the news about the latest Iranian nuclear scientist to turn up dead, predictably, the hard left is outraged. Salon’s Glenn Greenwald is particularly upset because he recalls that when Glenn Reynolds wrote in 2007 to urge the Bush administration to strike out at the Iranians in this fashion, the suggestion was widely denounced–at least on the left.

If Iran Is So Upset About That Nuclear Scientist Who Was Killed, They Should Recall That Arab Proverb...

Iran and its defenders have accused Israel as being behind the deaths of Iran's nuclear scientists. But, as the New York Times points out, Iran is in an odd position to be complaining about attacks on its nuclear scientists:

Neither Israeli nor American officials will discuss the covert campaign in any detail, leaving some uncertainty about the perpetrators and their purpose. For instance, Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said he believed that at least some of the murdered scientists might have been killed by the Iranian government. Some of them had shown sympathy for the Iranian opposition, he said, and not all appeared to have been high-ranking experts.

Mideast Media Sampler 1/12/12: Who's Killing Iran's Nuclear Scientists? And More...

1) Who is killing the nuclear scientists in Iran?

The New York Times reported, Iran Reports Killing of Nuclear Scientist in ‘Terrorist’ Blast (via memeorandum):

The semiofficial Fars news agency, which has close links to the powerful Revolutionary Guards Corps, said the Wednesday bombing resembled the methods used in attacks in November 2010 against two other nuclear specialists — Majid Shahriari, who was killed, and Fereydoon Abbasi, who survived and is now in charge of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization. 

Almost exactly two years ago in January 2010, a physics professor, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, was also assassinated in Tehran. 

Iran blamed Israel and the United States for the attacks in 2010, and the latest killing is bound to deepen an embattled mood in Tehran as the country’s divided leaders approach parliamentary elections in March. News of the blast emerged quickly on Iran’s state-run media.

The Times has followed up with Adversaries of Iran Said to Be Stepping Up Covert Actions: