As a Jew in the Diaspora, who has absolutely no issue with the targeted assassinations, few things infuriate me more than “liberal” American Jews judging and condemning Israel from the safety of their homes or restaurants, theaters or shopping malls in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, where they don’t have to worry about being killed by a rocket or suicide bomber, being knifed while waiting in line at the bank or walking down the street, or being car-rammed waiting for a bus or an Uber.
100% agree. I have absolutely no problem with ISrael using its smarts to assassinate as many of "the bad guys" as possible. It beats dropping bombs and killing civilians, which gets everyone clutching their pearls. You do what you have to do in order to survive. End of story.
I can’t understand why he remains in the Democrat party and happily proclaims he won’t vote for Donald Trump who thoroughly supports Israel. He’ll vote for the Israel hating Democrat Socialists (Communists)? What am I missing?
I think it's a good thing to get the main culprits, instead of innocent young men who are drafted into the armed forces, often against their will. How much better it would have been to take out Hitler, before millions of young men and women on both sides, as well as countless civilians, were killed in World War 2.
Glad the Israeli intelligence recovered its excellency, after some years where it seemed to have decreased.
Regarding ethics and law: they are there to manage and weight interest conflict. Human rights of others have the utmost importance, until they collide with your own human rights. Easy.
“We can argue whether it was a good idea for the Jews to achieve statehood in our indigenous homeland”.
This is an unecessary statement as there is no argument and anyone who thinks there’s an argument to make for NOT establishing the Jewish State is either a moron or a Jew hater.
How great was it when the Jews didn’t have a country of their own? How wonderful was it when we were utterly powerless and at the mercy and whims of a hostile world?
“We can argue whether it was a good idea for the Jews to achieve statehood in our indigenous homeland”.
Progressives the world over champion the rights of indigenous peoples to their ancestral homelands, be it in the Americas, Oceania, Europe, etc. These rights are even enshrined in the "UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples." However, when it comes to Jews claiming the principle of self determination in one's ancestral territory applies equally to them, suddenly these "Progressives" get all in a "moral" swivet as they try to exclude Jews from the rights granted all other indigenous peoples. It's not hypocrisy on their part: it is antisemitism pure and simple.
I cannot say I'm shocked or appalled. When you're faced by the constant threat of annihilation, a targetted effort against a genocidal maniac doesn't seem at all unjustified. Better than the random murder and rape of innocents, that's for sure!
I am fully behind Israel’s fight back policy. To have so many enemies on your border and beyond means you have to take a patient silent course. Israel’s enemies know that that they will hunted and dispatched. The last operations, were utterly brilliant!
Syria's Assad has just murdered 500,000 people in his Civil War there. Iran has just facilitated the murder of the same number in The Yemen Civil War. Israel's tally pales into insignificance when we look at the Horrors of Mass Murder in the Arab World. Liberal hand-wringers here in parts of The West's political class will not admit this reality. Furthermore, Islamist Hamas is in Alliance with The Re-Formed Nazi Party which is sworn to Genocide against The Jewish People, and is monitored here in Europe for twelve years now. Thus, what Israel does is Self Defence. This is the truth even if the reality is not pretty.
"Many Jews, especially in the Diaspora, are uncomfortable with this side of Israel. For them, their Zionist identity is intertwined with values of justice, morality, and the historical experience of persecution. The idea of the Jewish state engaging in extrajudicial killings — no less in foreign countries — clashes with these values and raises difficult ethical questions".
Fight fire with hell fire. Shock and awe with relentless pursuit across borders if need be. No mercy, no respite, no quarter given. Kill the enemy and the two standing next to him. Am Yisrael Chai
As a Jew in the Diaspora, who has absolutely no issue with the targeted assassinations, few things infuriate me more than “liberal” American Jews judging and condemning Israel from the safety of their homes or restaurants, theaters or shopping malls in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, where they don’t have to worry about being killed by a rocket or suicide bomber, being knifed while waiting in line at the bank or walking down the street, or being car-rammed waiting for a bus or an Uber.
100% agree. I have absolutely no problem with ISrael using its smarts to assassinate as many of "the bad guys" as possible. It beats dropping bombs and killing civilians, which gets everyone clutching their pearls. You do what you have to do in order to survive. End of story.
Dershowitz wrote dozens of books in defense of Israel! But he is a top legal expert, so he can’t not to cover the legal aspect.
I can’t understand why he remains in the Democrat party and happily proclaims he won’t vote for Donald Trump who thoroughly supports Israel. He’ll vote for the Israel hating Democrat Socialists (Communists)? What am I missing?
I think it's a good thing to get the main culprits, instead of innocent young men who are drafted into the armed forces, often against their will. How much better it would have been to take out Hitler, before millions of young men and women on both sides, as well as countless civilians, were killed in World War 2.
Israel.
Forever feared by Jihadists’ as
‘The Assassin Nation’.
Don’t visit us,
We’ll visit you.
Glad the Israeli intelligence recovered its excellency, after some years where it seemed to have decreased.
Regarding ethics and law: they are there to manage and weight interest conflict. Human rights of others have the utmost importance, until they collide with your own human rights. Easy.
I love history and stories about Mossad. I'm an American, but Mossad ops are heads and shoulders above CIA ops, IMO.
“We can argue whether it was a good idea for the Jews to achieve statehood in our indigenous homeland”.
This is an unecessary statement as there is no argument and anyone who thinks there’s an argument to make for NOT establishing the Jewish State is either a moron or a Jew hater.
How great was it when the Jews didn’t have a country of their own? How wonderful was it when we were utterly powerless and at the mercy and whims of a hostile world?
“We can argue whether it was a good idea for the Jews to achieve statehood in our indigenous homeland”.
Progressives the world over champion the rights of indigenous peoples to their ancestral homelands, be it in the Americas, Oceania, Europe, etc. These rights are even enshrined in the "UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples." However, when it comes to Jews claiming the principle of self determination in one's ancestral territory applies equally to them, suddenly these "Progressives" get all in a "moral" swivet as they try to exclude Jews from the rights granted all other indigenous peoples. It's not hypocrisy on their part: it is antisemitism pure and simple.
I cannot say I'm shocked or appalled. When you're faced by the constant threat of annihilation, a targetted effort against a genocidal maniac doesn't seem at all unjustified. Better than the random murder and rape of innocents, that's for sure!
I am fully behind Israel’s fight back policy. To have so many enemies on your border and beyond means you have to take a patient silent course. Israel’s enemies know that that they will hunted and dispatched. The last operations, were utterly brilliant!
Syria's Assad has just murdered 500,000 people in his Civil War there. Iran has just facilitated the murder of the same number in The Yemen Civil War. Israel's tally pales into insignificance when we look at the Horrors of Mass Murder in the Arab World. Liberal hand-wringers here in parts of The West's political class will not admit this reality. Furthermore, Islamist Hamas is in Alliance with The Re-Formed Nazi Party which is sworn to Genocide against The Jewish People, and is monitored here in Europe for twelve years now. Thus, what Israel does is Self Defence. This is the truth even if the reality is not pretty.
You kill your enemies you don’t negotiate with them
In Israel's case, it is simply a "Necessary Evil"! Period!
I am perfectly comfortable with this side of Israel. Assassinating Jew-killers IS just and moral. There is absolutely NO ethical dilemma here.
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"Many Jews, especially in the Diaspora, are uncomfortable with this side of Israel. For them, their Zionist identity is intertwined with values of justice, morality, and the historical experience of persecution. The idea of the Jewish state engaging in extrajudicial killings — no less in foreign countries — clashes with these values and raises difficult ethical questions".
Fight fire with hell fire. Shock and awe with relentless pursuit across borders if need be. No mercy, no respite, no quarter given. Kill the enemy and the two standing next to him. Am Yisrael Chai
The subtitle really bothers me.
There is nothing wrong with that?!
That's what you need to tell us?!
Israel managed to kill so many of the world's worst terrorists and "there is nothing wrong with that"?!
But I guess that is is the world we live in.
Excellent article.
Stab us in the hand, we chop off your arm. Your choice.
Joshua, I'm good with that too.