Source: http://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/remarkable-disappearing-terrorism/
“With Sharon’s backing, terrible things were done. I am no vegetarian, and I supported and even participated in some of the assassination operations Israel carried out. But we are speaking here about mass killing for killing’s sake, to sow chaos and alarm, among civilians, too. Since when do we send donkeys carrying bombs to blow up in marketplaces?”
– Mossad officer, quoted in Ronen Bergman’s Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations
The remarkable disappearing act of Israel’s
car-bombing campaign in Lebanon or: What we (do not) talk about when we talk
about ‘terrorism’
“With
Sharon’s backing, terrible things were done. I am no vegetarian, and I
supported and even participated in some of the assassination operations Israel
carried out. But we are speaking here about mass killing for killing’s sake, to
sow chaos and alarm, among civilians, too. Since when do we send donkeys
carrying bombs to blow up in marketplaces?”
– Mossad
officer, quoted in Ronen Bergman’s Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of
Israel’s Targeted Assassinations
On August 29,
1982, Ariel Sharon took to the opinion pages of the New York Times to
argue that Israel’s “most immediate achievement” following its invasion of
Lebanon had been the “crushing defeat” of the Palestine Liberation Organization
(PLO). As a result, the Israeli Defense Minister explained, Katyusha rockets
had stopped raining down on Israeli villages
“from terrorist sanctuaries in Lebanon.” The “kingdom of terror”
established by Yasser Arafat’s organization on Lebanese soil was “no more,” and
Israeli troops had been “greeted as liberators for driving out
the terrorists who had raped and pillaged and plundered.” This had
been the case, Sharon insisted, “despite the casualties that were the
inevitable result of fighting against P.L.O. terrorists who used
civilians as human shields and who deliberately placed their weapons and
ammunition in the midst of apartment houses, schools, refugee camps and
hospitals.”
