[news] The chilling implications of this state killing - Robert Fisk

[Resist!ca]

It doesn't take an awful lot of courage to murder a paraplegic in a wheelchair. 
But it takes only a few moments to absorb the implications of the assassination 
of Sheikh Yassin. Yes, he endorsed suicide bombings - including the murder of 
Israeli children. Yes, if you live by the sword, you die by the sword, in a 
wheelchair or not. But something went wrong with the narrative of the news 
story yesterday - and something infinitely more dangerous, another sinister 
precedent - was set for our brave new world.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/3/25/10116/4193