" ‘If you do something for long enough, the world will accept it,’ a former senior Israeli military lawyer declared ahead of a previous assault on #Gaza. ‘We invented the #targetedAssassination thesis and we had to push it. [Now] it is in the centre of the bounds of legitimacy’ – as international acquiescence to the actions of #Israel and the US against Iran has now demonstrated."

#AndrewCockburn on #OperationWrathOfGod - and #Mossad assassinations

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n06/andrew-cockburn/beware-the-mattress
#books @bookstodon