language

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jul 23 07:18:10 PDT 2002


In today's NYT, James Bennet writes:


>Previous killings by Israel of leaders of Hamas have preceded spikes
>in the violence here. Israel maintains that such targeted killings,
>which Palestinians call assassinations, are essential to its
>self-defense.

American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed.:


>as-sas-si-nate 1. To murder (a prominent person) by surprise attack,
>as for political reasons[.....]

Those Palestinians will say anything!

Doug



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