Israel's Policy of Targeted Assassinations and Shifting the Focus of Blame

Robby Martin:      

http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/middle-east/5036-israels-policy-of-targeted-assassinations-and-shifting-the-focus-of-blame       

Israel's practice of targeted assassinations against Palestinians, an evolution of 'focused foiling' or 'liquidations policy' by Israel, remains a contentious issue in the discourse on human rights and international human rights law.

Perceived in a wider context, it is possible to discern a trend in the global media which fails to address assassinations as a lethal operation carried out by Israeli intelligence and the Israeli Defence Forces. A comprehensive look at Israel's colonial occupation of Palestine, its disregard for international law and distortion of Palestinian armed resistance shows how the global media has served Israel's deception campaign. By endorsing the occupier's rhetoric, the media has aided in shifting the discourse of Palestinian resistance to an image of terrorism, endangering the reality of history under colonial occupation and failing to discuss the assassinations as an operative of state terror.