Akiva Eldar gives his take on the Yasssin asassination.
“If there’s ever a commission of inquiry into the way the decisions were made, Sharon will find it difficult to present a single document that gave him reason to believe that killing the most admired man in the territories would save even one Israeli. On the assumption that investigators will find their way to the proper people among the Military Intelligence Research Department officers or veterans of the unit, they’ll hear that the experts warned that Yassin’s heir will be even more extreme than he was.”
Of course, the army’s current argument is that in the long run this will save lives, because by killing the current Palestinian leadership, Israel will pave the way for a more “moderate” leadership to come to the fore. What a sad joke. In any case, we all know what John Maynard Keynes said happens in the long run…