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Not terrorism to kill a bin Laden type of man

Daniel Belin Middletown

Publication: The Day

Published 03/05/2010 12:00 AM
Updated 03/05/2010 02:35 AM

The letter titled "Heavy hand of U.S. falls on Iran, but not Israel," published Feb. 28, mocks our intelligence. The writer's claim that the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai was an act of "state terrorism" is absurd. Al-Mabhouh, a founder of Hamas and an arms-smuggling specialist, was no innocent. The act of killing him, and he had enemies other than Israel, is no more a terrorist act than would be ours to kill Osama bin Laden if we knew where he was. Mahmoud al-Mabhouh got everything he deserved.
The writer's allegations about Gaza civilians is nonsense. Israel went into Gaza to stop years of rocket attacks against its citizens in the southern cities of Sderot and Ashkelon by Hamas. Civilian deaths in any war are unfortunate but unavoidable, especially when Hamas places its fighters among civilians. Any blame for them belongs to Hamas.
And no, the suffering of Jewish people during the Holocaust does not entitle Israel to a waiver of moral decency. But the moral standards of Israel - the only free, democratic state in the Middle East - far surpass those of Iran or any of Israel's surrounding neighbors.

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