Article. Israel’s “targeted killing” policy, which was denounced by the Bush administration in 2001, has since been embraced as the centerpiece of Obama’s counterterrorism strategy. What began as a highly controversial Israeli method to suppress Palestinian resistance is now being used by the US to kill thousands of people in Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia. With this in mind, it should raise alarm bells that the highest-ranking military official in the country has publicly endorsed Israel’s latest crime spree, regardless of the Pentagon’s “clarification.”

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