Obama's kill list policy compels US support for Israeli attacks on Gaza
The US was once part of the international consensus against extra-judicial
assassinations. Now it is a leader in that tactic.
* Glenn Greenwald
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* guardian.co.uk, Thursday 15 November 2012 13.23 EST
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Jihad al-Masharawi, a
Palestinian employee of BBC Arabic in Gaza, carries the body of his
11-month-old son Omar, who according to hospital officials was killed by an
Israeli air strike in Gaza City 15 November, 2012. Photograph:
Mohammed Salem/Reuters
(updated below)
Israel's escalating air attacks on Gaza follow the depressingly familiar
pattern that shapes this conflict.
Overwhelming Israeli force slaughters innocent Palestinians, including
children, which is preceded (and followed) by far more limited rocket
attacks into Israel which kill a much smaller number, rocket attacks
which are triggered by various forms of Israeli provocations -- all of
which, most crucially, takes place in the context of Israel's
45-year-old brutal occupation of the Palestinians (and, despite a
"withdrawal" of troops, that includes Gaza, over which Israel continues
to exercise extensive dominion). The debates over these episodes then follow an
equally familiar
pattern, strictly adhering to a decades-old script that, by design at
this point, goes nowhere.
The rest of this article is at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/15/israel-gaza-obama-assassinations
Israeli Negotiator: Hamas Commander Was Assassinated Hours After Receiving
Truce Deal from Israel
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Israel broke an
informal ceasefire on Wednesday by assassinating Hamas military
commander Ahmed Jabari in an air strike. The Israeli peace activist
Gershon Baskin, who helped mediate talks between Israel and Hamas in the deal
to release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, has revealed Jabari was
assassinated just hours after he received the draft of a permanent truce
agreement with Israel, which included mechanisms for maintaining the
ceasefire. Baskin, the founder of the Israel/Palestine Center for
Research and Information, joins us from Jerusalem. We also speak with
Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer based in Gaza. [includes rush
transcript]
Video and transcript of this dialogue at
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/11/16/israeli_negotiator_hamas_commander_was_assassinated
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