Eichmann wasn't assassinated, he was put on trial. That would be the right way to deal with leaders accused of instigating terrorist attacks, such as Rantisi. Or Sharon - decribed by the Israeli commission of inquiry following the Sabra and Shatila massacres as "unfit to hold public office".

The goal of these killings isn't to eliminate organisations committed to violent resistance - it is to strengthen them, and to undermine the possibility of any kind of alternative strategy of resistance on the part of the Palestinians, which might be a more formidable opponent.