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The Murder of Shaikh Yassin
By Mike Whitney
Al-Jazeerah, March 23, 2004
Whoever invented the term “targeted assassination” must have risen quite quickly in the Israeli hierarchy, because it seems to have become the favorite occupation of the Sharon Government.
Imagine what manner of man would sit around his office toying with language that will put a more benign face on state sponsored murder.
Would this man look at the photos of the nuked wheelchair and the pool of blood on the pavement, (all that was left of Shaikh Yassin) and claim credit for his “clever expression?”
Many hands are used to carry out one murder. In this case even the lowly “wordsmith” who designs the language of death, is partly culpable.
State sponsored murder has a crippling affect on society. It can’t be seen on the outside. People still board the busses, go to work at the office and come home to spend time with their children.
Murder changes that.
Society loses its moral legitimacy when it engages in murder; it slips into barbarism.
Isn’t this so?
The transformation is not apparent on the outside, but inside, the cancer grows, and with it, the knowledge that something in the very heart of that society is rotten.
This is not a situation that bothers men like Sharon.
Sharon likes death.
Sharon is in the death business, and he has done quite well at it.
But, for others it will always be an impossible hurtle. It’s simply not possible to give one’s heart to something that is essentially unjust.
This is Israel’s plight, now, and America’s as well.
A generation will rise up and blindly support the homeland and all its acts of barbarity, but another generation will come along and simply leave.
That’s right, leave.
Assassinations, detentions, torture; these things have no place in society; they are the end of society.
They are a warning sign to those who love their country that the train has derailed and is headed towards trouble.
No one who has any sense of justice will ever condone these things; they are the product of sick minds that have lost their way.
The murder of Shaikh Yassin was wrong.
Anyone with any decency understands that.
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank, like a Python. (Alquds,10/25/03). |
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