Meeting over fake Irish passports

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8527322.stm

This brief article by the BBC News concerns the use of fake passports by the assassins of a Hamas leader in January. The men in question are suspected of using counterfeit Irish passports to gain entry into Dubai, where they then proceeded to kill Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. The Foreign Minister of Ireland intends to talk with the Foreign Minister of Israel about the issue, as well as address other members of the European political community. This will be done in the hopes of finding a way to prevent incidents like this in the future.

This situation can be analyzed using some of the political philosophies that we have encountered so far in our readings. Looking at this through a Kantian view of the world, we see this as a failure of international institutions. With strong sovereign republics, there would be a consolidated international community powerful enough to prevent such abuses of the system. However, this also supports Owen's world view, the idea that peace is the natural way of the world. Owen believes that war is the result of a few radical, "loose-cannon" political figures. This world model can reasonably be extended to individuals. Peace would exist if it weren't for radical outliers like the extremists who assasinated al-Mabhouh. The assasination itself can be seen as the result of Hamas, a fringe political party democratically elected by the Occupied Territories (Gaza Strip). The un-peaceful assasination of al-Mabhouh was probably predicated by his Hamas ties. Hamas exists in direct response to the occupation of the Palestinian people. Kant would say then that the assination is indirectly tied to the fact that the Palestinians are a nation without a sovereign state with a constitution. Owen would probably point out that Hamas is a "fringe group" (recognized as a terrorist organization by most of the Western World) and that is the source of the unrest that took the form of an assassination.