Obama’s assassination of bin Laden sets a law-breaking precedent. Calls to assassinate Gaddafi quickly emerged after bin Laden’s killing was made known. Now Shaul Mofaz, a former Israeli Defense Minister and current head of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, says that the U.S. has adopted Israel’s already existing assassination policy. Worse yet, he argues that Obama’s action justifies Israel’s assassinations: “Mofaz said in an interview with Israeli radio on Tuesday that Washington’s decision to kill bin Laden rather than try him in a court of law justified the former policy that Tel Aviv implemented against Palestinians that included … Continue reading Former Israeli Defense Minister Lauds U.S. Assassination Policy