<p>" ‘If you do something for long enough, the world will accept it,’ a former senior Israeli military lawyer declared ahead of a previous assault on <a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#Gaza</a>. ‘We invented the <a href="/tags/targetedassassination/" rel="tag">#targetedAssassination</a> thesis and we had to push it. [Now] it is in the centre of the bounds of legitimacy’ – as international acquiescence to the actions of <a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#Israel</a> and the US against Iran has now demonstrated." </p><p><a href="/tags/andrewcockburn/" rel="tag">#AndrewCockburn</a> on <a href="/tags/operationwrathofgod/" rel="tag">#OperationWrathOfGod</a> - and <a href="/tags/mossad/" rel="tag">#Mossad</a> assassinations</p><p><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n06/andrew-cockburn/beware-the-mattress" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n06/andrew-cockburn/beware-the-mattress"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n0</span><span class="invisible">6/andrew-cockburn/beware-the-mattress</span></a><br><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>