By Mike Whitney
Al-Jazeerah
March 8, 2006
Gangland violence is making us safer.
That’s the message we hear today from Israel’s Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, who not only defended the practice of “targeted assassination” but threatened to use the controversial tactic against Palestine’s new Prime Minister-designate, Ismail Haniya.
"We will continue the targeted killings at this pace," Mofaz stated. "No one will be immune."
Mofaz’s comments were made in response to Israel’s air-strike against two Palestinians yesterday in Gaza City. The attack killed three bystanders—one child and two teenagers.
The Defense Minister used the attack to warn the new Hamas cabinet that the same strategy will be applied to leading members of the government if suicide-bombings in Israel resume.
Is Mofaz right? Is gangland violence making Israelis safer?
There’s reason to suspect that he is not only wrong, but that he may be putting Israeli citizens at greater risk. Targeted assassination is a disastrous policy; a policy which defines the parameters of extremism and lawlessness. [More...]
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