Comment I'd love to see them try (Score 1) 523
NZ recently picked up and imprisoned two Mossad employees who tried to obtain New Zealand passports. The last foreign intelligence to attempt a bit of terrorism on New Zealand soil discovered how hard it is.
The Zodiacs landed near Orakei yacht club and some Mrs Grundy picked up the phone and called the cops. They were hot on the trail when the frogmen killed a Portugese photographer on board the Rainbow Warrior. I was on the designated SAR boat that night - all I could fish out of the water was a plastic bag of Brussels Sprouts.
Some of the frogmen got away by the skin of their teeth, but others were caught and convicted of manslaughter, which French papers quickly translated as Le Rire de l'home. They were laughing out of the other side of their mouths when the sentences were announced. The government of the day proved susceptible to economic blackmail. I doubt that Mossad would have quite the same economic clout.