" ‘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
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Andrew Cockburn · Beware the mattress: Mossad’s Kill List

Mossad relied heavily on assorted European security agencies for intelligence on Palestinian activities. Not only did...

London Review of Books

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"War Criminals Try to Justify Their Crimes"

@PariaSansPortefeuille @bookstodon "The careful selection process employed in the days of Operation Wrath of God is a distant memory; victims in the tens of thousands have been selected and located with the aid of AI systems, which also provide instantaneous estimates of the number of civilians likely to die as the result of a strike."