I'm sure people know the official Israeli name? "The Early Retirement Program". If you didn't hear this before- no, I'm not making this up.
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Source Macdonald? http://www.google.com/search?q=Israeli+assasinations+&btnG=Google+Search&hl= en&safe=off http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Israeli+assasinations+of+Pales tinian+militants+ http://www.google.com/search?q=Israeli+assasinations+The+Early+Retirement+Pr ogram&btnG=Google+Search&hl=en&safe=off
Journalistic accts. I see say that Israeli press briefers and officials, say things like this, http://www.herald-sun.com/nationworld/international/27-121194.html When asked about the policy of "liquidating" Palestinian militants, Sharon responded the term isn't used, and doesn't appear in any government decisions.
"There it says 'implementing the right of self-defense.' Sharon told reporters on Thursday. "That means if a terrorist is leaving on a mission to carry out a terror attack, and you prevent his arrival. You intercept him on the way."
I did see (or rather hear though, that the BBC which I listen to every night at 9 P.M on the radio, recently started using weasel words to describe the "targetted assasinations" of PFLP, PLO, Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants.
Typing in, "Israeli Early Retirement Program, " got this though. http://www.sis.gov.eg/public/letter/html/text343.htm The privatization program, however, will have to surmount a number of obstacles in order to become more attractive to investors. The government needs to introduce financial and administrative reforms of public industrial companies before they are offered for privatization. An estimate from the Public Business Ministry indicates a dire need for a fund of LE3 billion to persuade as many as 350,000 workers in these companies to accept early retirement. Khattab announced this week that the early retirement program in the coming period will be confined to workers who are more than 50 years old.
And, no one was better at linguistic obfuscation than Public Affairs Officers, I think was the title, at the, "Five O' Clock Follies, " at the US Embassy in Saigon during the Vietnam War. "Protective Reaction Raid, " is my fave.See Gloria Emerson or Frances Fitzgerald books on the war, or specific studies like George Herring on the War and the Press. Michael Pugliese