Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
other words, by supporting the existence of the State of Israel, the US and the UK had crossed the Arab world and now, if they wanted oil, or allegiances, or strategic military intel, they had to pay for it. When Herter asked Khayyal to sit down with the Israelis and help find a solution, Khayyal answered that no one would talk with the Israelis. F
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As previously documented, two years before the petition was circulated the Israeli Supreme Court outlawed the use of all physical pressure in eliciting information from potential terrorists. Israel is the only country in the Middle East to have abolished any kind of torture, in fact as well as in law. Jordan and Egypt, both of which receive substan
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savagely tortured before being dispatched.”8 By the end of the intifada in 1993, almost 400 Palestinians had been murdered by other Palestinians—nearly as many as had been killed by Israeli defense forces.9 In an incredible display of chutzpah, some Palestinian spokesmen counted these murders when providing the media with a list of Palestinians kil
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OF MORE IMMEDIATE CONCERN to Israel’s government was the spread of nuclear technology, and particularly the nuclear aspirations of governments committed to Israel’s destruction. The Begin doctrine was tested in 2007 when Israel acquired incontrovertible evidence that Syria was building a nuclear reactor near the Euphrates River. After bringing Pres
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