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By Way of Deception

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140 BY WAY OF DECEPTION"shot" him five times, got back into their car, and simply droveaway.In the meantime, we were working more and more on our covers,learning how to use various passports. We could be walking downthe street with one identity and be arrested, back up our storyunder interrogation, be let out, meet a bodel with a new passport,and bingo, a different cop would arrest us and we'd have to backup the new identity.We were now also learning about Tsafririm and the "frames" setup as a defense mechanism by Jews around the world. In thisarea we had a problem, or at least some <strong>of</strong> us did. I just couldn'tagree with this concept <strong>of</strong> having guard groups everywhere. Ithought frames in England, for example, where kids learn how tobuild slicks for their weapons to protect their synagogues, weremore dangerous than beneficial to the Jewish community. Ibrought up the argument that even if a group <strong>of</strong> people had beenoppressed, with attempts made to exterminate them — as with theJews they had no right to act obstructively in democraticcountries. I could understand this happening in Chile orArgentina, or any other country where people disappear <strong>of</strong>f thestreets, but not in England or France or Belgium.The fact that there are anti-Semitic groups, whether real orimaginary, is definitely not an excuse, because if you look intoIsrael's own backyard, you'll see anti-Palestinian groups. Did thismean we thought the Palestinians therefore had the right to storeweapons and organize vigilante groups? Or would we call themterrorists?Of course, any talk <strong>of</strong> this sort within the Mossad was notregarded as smart, especially within the context <strong>of</strong> the Holocaust. Iknow the Holocaust was one <strong>of</strong> the gravest things ever to happento Jews: Bella's father, for one, spent four years in Auschwitz andmost <strong>of</strong> her family was eliminated by the Germans. But rememberthat close to 50 million other people died, too. Germans tried toeliminate Gypsies, various religious groups, Russians, and Poles.The Holocaust could have been, and I think should have been, asource for unity with other nations rather than a tool forseparation.

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