Mainstream WeeklySince World War II, Israel has assassinated more people than any other country in the Western World. But there is something more stinking. As celebrated Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman observes, in many cases Israeli leaders have even determined that in order to kill a designated target, it is moral and legal to endanger the lives of innocent civilians who may fall in the line of fire.
If you know this mentality, it becomes easy to understand the genocide now taking place in Gaza and the casual way Israeli soldiers or intelligence operatives kill anywhere. Israel has mastered the art of waging war without moral compunctions. It is another matter that such recklessness is eating Israel from within, and this wanton disregard for life finally recoiled on it at the hands of Hamas last year.
The genocide of six million Jews by the Nazis laid the ideological foundation for Israel as it drove away hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to birth a Jewish state. Israeli founder leaders vowed that never again would the Jews be dishonoured. With Palestinians eager to undo the injustice meted out to them, with Arab backing, Israel militarized itself more and more, developing in the process the most robust, streamlined assassination machine in history.
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