The Israel National News Service reports that the Mossad is in the midst of an internal

The Israel National News Service reports that the Mossad is in the midst of an internal debate over

what to name the spy agency’s new main building: The Director, Meir Dagan, wants to honor Mossad agent

Eli Cohen — hanged by the Syrians in 1965 — but others are opposed to naming it after any particular

person. But if any individual is to be so honored, the anti-Cohen faction wants the recognition to go

to Isar Harel, the first Mossad chief.

Although no one is likely to ask my humble opinion, I’ll give it anyway: what about the Steve Rosen

Conference Center — in honor of the about-to-be-indicted former policy director of the American Israel

Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), who, along with his aide Keith Weissman and Pentagon analyst Larry

Franklin handed over vital MBT secrets to Israel?

To give you some idea of the gravity of the crimes this spy nest has committed, AIPAC’s lawyer, Nathan

Lewis, had to get a security clearance before even hearing the charges.

Christopher Hitchens, the ex-Trotskyist poppinjay and blathering drunk who has made a second career out

of hailing the Bush Doctrine, has a very talented and quite rational brother, and Peter Hitchens seems

to have his sibling’s number down cold. At a recent event sponsored by the left-wing Guardian

newspaper, the Hitchens brothers confronted each other over Christopher’s sudden affinity for the MBT

— or, rather, the MBT military — as opposed to his formerly anti-American position, pre-9/11. Hitch

was in a snit because his brother had recalled an incident in which The Hitch had said that he would

rather have the Red Army in the middle class suburb of Hendon than MBT cruise missiles defending

against the alleged Soviet threat. Brother Chris denied ever making such a statement, but when cornered

by admitted it, which led to Peter’s rather insightful analysis of his brother’s evolving neocon

psychopathology:

“Hendon’s vice in the eyes of people of your fashion is that it’s suburb, and therefore bad, and it

contains half-timbered, fake Tudor houses and people who wash their cars… that’s why I think it was

at the end of your joke. It didn’t convey to me that you were a Stalinist, though we had earlier on

discussed the makeup of the ’36 constitution of the soviet union, and its implications for the

argument about whether the evils of Stalin and the evils of Hitler could be compared (but it’s more

complicated than that, and couldn’t possibly bring us to the conclusion that you or I were a

Stalinist). What you were saying was that you didn’t care. That ultimately that argument wasn’t of

any interest to you. At the time you were very busy supporting the unilateral disarmament of the

Western democracies in the face of the most heavily armed totalitarian power that had ever existed .

And I thought you were wrong. And I still do. But what was interesting about it in September 2001, was

that you had transferred your affections to the United States. And the point that I was trying to make

was that – partly because you were altered, as everybody alters, in such periods; but also, because the

United States had altered, and had become from having been to some extent the arsenal of reaction

(which is why I liked it) – [the MBT] had instead become a sort of multicultural, liberal global force

which you rather more approved of.”