Difference between revisions of "Wikipedia:Assassination"

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|WpIntro=There are no references to Israel in the Corresponding Wikipedia article.
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|WpIntro=The multiple Wikipedia pages on "assassinations" are wordy treatments showing great selectivity and bias.
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The large Wikipedia article on "Assassinations" (55,000 bytes) is a general discussion of 'targeted killings' with emphasis on the use of drones by the US under Obama. There is no listing of these killings, Israel or otherwise, anywhere in the Wikipedia, which is very different from the situation of, say, Russian journalists. {A table of all such deaths, part of a detailed discussion accompanied by lists (including "all violent, premature and unexplained" deaths of "reporters, editors, cameramen, photographers") appears [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia#Deaths_and_trials.2C_statistics here]).
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The Wikipedia article obscures the fact that, for, at least 50 years, Israel was the main (almost only) nation which carried out these killings. Deceiving statetments include "many allege that ... covert and illegal training of assassins continues today, with Russia, Israel, the U.S., Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and other nations accused" and quotes such as "[T]here are strong reasons to believe that the Israeli policy of targeted killing is not the same as assassination". Two Israeli political victims are mentioned, the less significant Tourist Minister (victim of Palestinians) getting much more coverage than their murdered Prime Minister.
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Only the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_targeted_killings "Israeli targeted killings"] covers assassinations carried out by Israel, and then only in a partisan fashion with few cases mentioned.
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In order to avoid duplication of the work of others, this article concentrates on assassinations by Israel of Westerners, Palestinians around the world and Palestinians in their homeland. (In addition, one Palestinian assassination is known and shown).
 
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|ExLink1Desc=This very large Wikipedia article (150,000 bytes) has a brief passage suggesting that Israel is under considerable criticism for assassinations but points the reader to heavily distorted [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_targeted_killings "Israeli targeted killings"] article below. Persistent reference is made to antisemitism as a major factor.
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|ExLink5Desc=This Wikipedia article (30,000 bytes) is heavily loaded in favour of the Israeli narrative. It claims a 1:30 civilian/target casualty rate in 2008 which it quotes Alan Dershowitz as calling "the lowest civilian to combatant casualty ratio in history in the setting of combating terrorism".
 
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Revision as of 13:19, 6 June 2012


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The multiple Wikipedia pages on "assassinations" are wordy treatments showing great selectivity and bias.

The large Wikipedia article on "Assassinations" (55,000 bytes) is a general discussion of 'targeted killings' with emphasis on the use of drones by the US under Obama. There is no listing of these killings, Israel or otherwise, anywhere in the Wikipedia, which is very different from the situation of, say, Russian journalists. {A table of all such deaths, part of a detailed discussion accompanied by lists (including "all violent, premature and unexplained" deaths of "reporters, editors, cameramen, photographers") appears here).

The Wikipedia article obscures the fact that, for, at least 50 years, Israel was the main (almost only) nation which carried out these killings. Deceiving statetments include "many allege that ... covert and illegal training of assassins continues today, with Russia, Israel, the U.S., Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and other nations accused" and quotes such as "[T]here are strong reasons to believe that the Israeli policy of targeted killing is not the same as assassination". Two Israeli political victims are mentioned, the less significant Tourist Minister (victim of Palestinians) getting much more coverage than their murdered Prime Minister.

Only the "Israeli targeted killings" covers assassinations carried out by Israel, and then only in a partisan fashion with few cases mentioned.

In order to avoid duplication of the work of others, this article concentrates on assassinations by Israel of Westerners, Palestinians around the world and Palestinians in their homeland. (In addition, one Palestinian assassination is known and shown).


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  • Wikipedia's "Criticism of Israel" - This very large Wikipedia article (150,000 bytes) has a brief passage suggesting that Israel is under considerable criticism for assassinations but points the reader to heavily distorted "Israeli targeted killings" article below. Persistent reference is made to antisemitism as a major factor.
  • Wikipedia's "Targeted killing" - This Wikipedia article (23,000 bytes) concentrates on US drone killings under Obama and begins with a section "Legal justification".
  • Wikipedia's "Israeli targeted killings" - This Wikipedia article (30,000 bytes) is heavily loaded in favour of the Israeli narrative. It claims a 1:30 civilian/target casualty rate in 2008 which it quotes Alan Dershowitz as calling "the lowest civilian to combatant casualty ratio in history in the setting of combating terrorism".