Monday, August 17, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Alan Dershowitz: Double Standard Watch: Targeted killings - OK for US but not for Israel - '...According to this newly announced policy, 50 alleged civilian drug dealers have now been made subject to targeted killing if they cannot be captured. When Israel used targeted killings to eliminate Sheikh Salah Shehade, Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Yassin and Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, who were admitted leaders of terrorist groups that were engaging in combat against Israeli civilians, it faced a tsunami of condemnation from the US, the EU, the UK, the French, the Italians, the Russians, the UN and The Vatican. Yet there has been no comparable outcry from the international community, despite the fact that the US's policy is less defensible morally and legally...'
