The normalization and legitimation of political assassinations

When the Israel Defense Forces assassinated Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an underground bunker in Beirut on September 27, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defiantly claimed responsibility for the killing. “Nasrallah was not a terrorist,” he boasted. “He was the terrorist.” Similarly defiant messages came from the White House. The US president, Joe Biden, called
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