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Source: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/28/1080412232378.html
Israel Was Entitled to Kill Yassin
(The Age-Australia) Alan Dershowitz - The targeted killing of Sheikh Yassin was a moral and lawful instance of pre-emptive self-defense. Yassin was a combatant under any reasonable definition of that term, and combatants - including leaders - are appropriate military targets during a war of the kind Hamas has declared against Israel. The international condemnation of Israel for defending its civilian population against a self-proclaimed terrorist leader sends a dangerous message to terrorists around the world: namely, that a democracy that targets a mass murderer who has sworn to continue his killing rampage is to be condemned as morally indistinguishable from a tyrannical terrorist group that targets innocent civilians.