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You are being disingenuous. Mossad took that long to locate the man who they thought was Salemeh. The murdered the guy in less than 18 hours after he was first spotted. Seems a bit rushed to me. Especially since the Mossad professionals got their first look at him as they pulled the trigger. The ID was done by local amateurs who were recruited to keep their eyes open.
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Then you write: "Your calling it "vengeance" exposes your real objection. Sort of like people who object to the death penalty."
Nonsense, save the analysis for your shrink and respond to the words I use not your self-serving interpretation of them.
And, I have made no comment about my thoughts on the death penalty. I will say this about it vis a vis this killing...Our employment of a death penalty is by the state after arrest, trial and conviction. We do not gun people down in the street simply because they look like someone we're chasing down. That was the case in Norway. No effort was made to confirm who the target was. He looked like Salemeh and that was enough.
One final point - you call the murder a 'mistake'. Would you be so casual and dismissive if the 'mistake' happened in Israel or LA, the victim was an Israeli or an American and the killers were Arab?
"One final point - you call the murder a 'mistake'. Would you be so casual and dismissive if the 'mistake' happened in Israel or LA, the victim was an Israeli or an American and the killers were Arab?"
More equivalency where none exists.
The human rights record, self-examination, democratic values, political system and myriad other things do not require me to treat Israeli and US mistakes the way I would Arab ones. How would one recognize an Arab "mistake?" Most of their mistakes are in getting caught, like Hariri.
There is a reason that the US did not join the International Court of Criminal Justice. Such institutions are needed only by countries, like all the Arab ones, who have no internal justice, abysmal human rights and no press freedom. Why would a country who publicizes Abu Ghraib as if it were the atrocity of the century need external censure?
You are treading in dangerous water when you compare misdeeds by Israel or US to misdeeds by Arab countries.