"Jabari assasinated extra-judicially but since it was Jews he was killing I guess that doesn't earn your opprobrium."

Here we go.

Bobad closes his eyes and ears and ignores all the condemnation of Hamas that I have written in this thread, because it is easier for him to lie about his debating opponents than to acknowledge that Israel has done something wrong.

I remember this tactic.

The world has changed since this type of smearing was effective though - it is easy to spot and it has no tenure.

Justifying murder, justifying nuclear threats, and now rather than clarifying that he does not support these things, he changes tack and starts to smear his debating opponents.

Jabari was not a nice man - but he was, according to Israeli sources, Israels enforcer in Gaza and as such was part of the key to peace and he was the guy who ensured Shalit was looked after properly.

By killing him, just before an election and just before the UN vote on whether to allow palestine member status, Netanyahu showed contempt for peace.

And by stating (he thought in private) that he can do what he wants because he has America in his pocket, he compounded that contempt.

Killing Jabari released a salvo of rockets that otherwise would not have been fired, killing 6 Israelis, 4 of whom were civilians.

And it allowed Israel an excuse to kill another 156 Palestinians, 30 of whom were children.