Jim Brown
April 23, 2007
A man who served for 25 years as a navigator in the Israeli Air Force says Israel's targeted killings of Islamic terrorists are "morally sound" because the military goes out of its way to minimize collateral damage. Meanwhile, Colonel Uri Dromi says, Israel's enemies are "elusive and can pop up anywhere."
Dromi served as the chief spokesman for the Rabin and Peres governments and is now director of international outreach at the Israel Democracy Institute. He reminded a crowd attending the "Democracies Fighting Terror" seminar in Washington, DC, that Israel is faced with the difficult task of confronting terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah as well as individual terrorists.
"We try to identify those individuals," Dromi noted, "and we in Israel came to the idea that this must be a 25-year-old male who is unemployed and maybe has some problems; and then we bump into a 49-year-old with six kids who blew himself up or, even worse, a mother of two who becomes a suicide bomber. So the enemy is anywhere and nowhere."
"We try to identify those individuals," Dromi noted, "and we in Israel came to the idea that this must be a 25-year-old male who is unemployed and maybe has some problems; and then we bump into a 49-year-old with six kids who blew himself up or, even worse, a mother of two who becomes a suicide bomber. So the enemy is anywhere and nowhere."
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I praise the Israelis for their guts and for their effort to minimize collateral damage.
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