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an awful lot of courage

IT DOESN'T take an awful lot of courage to murder a paraplegic in a wheelchair. But it takes only a few moments to absorb the implications of the assassination of Sheikh Yassin. Yes, he endorsed suicide bombings - including the murder of Israeli children. Yes, if you live by the sword, you die by the sword, in a wheelchair or not. But something went wrong with the narrative of the news story yesterday - and something infinitely more dangerous, another sinister precedent - was set for our brave new world. follow here

Israel's extrajudicial executions

In the latest and most dramatic of Israel's extrajudicial executions, the Israeli air force killed the spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, early Monday morning on March 22 in a helicopter attack. Israeli planes fired three missiles at Yassin’s car as he left a mosque near his house in Gaza City, killing him along with seven of his bodyguards. Seventeen people were injured. follow...

escalation in Israeli occupation tactics

The assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin marks a serious escalation in Israeli occupation tactics. While Israel had (in earlier assassination attempts) already crossed the "red line" that once defined some limits in aggressive acts, its message in the Yassin murder was that there are no limits, that Israel's military attacks face no restrictions. Counting accurately on Washington’s unwillingness to challenge its aggression, the assassination also ushers in a new Israeli campaign to win official U.S. support for wide-spread annexation of major West Bank settlements as part of Tel Aviv’s “unilateral withdrawal from Gaza” plan.

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