{"id":2623,"date":"2002-07-25T08:48:28","date_gmt":"2002-07-25T08:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2002-07-25T08:48:28","modified_gmt":"2002-07-25T08:48:28","slug":"good-la-times-column-on-israeli-airstrike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2623","title":{"rendered":"GOOD LA TIMES COLUMN ON ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at Steven David&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-david25jul25.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions\">commentary<\/a> in today&#8217;s L.A. Times (obtrusive registration required, or just sign in as &#8220;laexaminer&#8221;\/&#8221;laexaminer&#8221;).<br \/>\nShort version:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As long as the Palestinian Authority is unwilling or unable to curb those who deliberately seek to kill innocent Israelis and bring these attackers to justice, it is up to Israel to do so. Targeted killing does this, and at a cost that is far less harmful to the Palestinians than its alternatives.<br \/>\nTargeted killing will not bring peace to the Middle East. Only a political solution that calls for an independent Palestinian state can do that.<br \/>\nA policy of targeted killing also must carry with it adequate safeguards, including civilian oversight. Targeted killing must focus only on combatants. Political leaders, no matter how odious, must be spared. And targeted killing cannot be carried out forever. It is a policy that makes sense only during war or armed conflict. Once a peace settlement is reached, it must end.<br \/>\nFor a region going through a horrendous time, targeted killing is the worst possible policy&#8211;except for all the others. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at Steven David&#8217;s commentary in today&#8217;s L.A. Times (obtrusive registration required, or just sign in as &#8220;laexaminer&#8221;\/&#8221;laexaminer&#8221;). Short version: As long as the Palestinian Authority is unwilling or unable to curb those who deliberately seek to kill innocent Israelis and bring these attackers to justice, it is up to Israel to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}