Wikipedia describes the 2018 book called “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations” by Ronen Bergman:
Israeli covert agencies have undertaken targeted assassinations against “Arab adversaries throughout its pre- and post-statehood periods”. They have assassinated more people than any Western state has since World War II, carrying out “at least” 2,700 assassination operations in the seventy-year period since Israel’s state formation.
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We are all waiting for Dr. Hans Hoppe and his “libertarian” partisans to praise Israel’s wars, careful to distinguish between combatants and noncombatants, like the old monarchical wars he praises.
Surely, the German [*] is about to write an article praising the pinpointed pager bombs as the targeted assassination of harmful decision-makers, just as rational, private insurance and defense companies would do, internalizing costs.
A follow-up article will praise the killing of Ali Khamenei, quoting his own writing (he’s pretty skilled at that!):
“… insurers would be ready to counterattack and kill—whether with long-range precision weapons or assassination commandos—state agents from the top of the government hierarchy of king, president, or prime minister on downward while seeking to avoid or minimize collateral damage to property of innocent civilians (nonstate agents). They would thereby encourage internal resistance against the aggressor government, promote its delegitimization, and possibly incite the liberation and transformation of the state territory into a free country.”
[The Myth of National Defense. “Government and the Private Production of Defense.” Auburn, AL. Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2003. p .368.]
Didn’t he explicitly ask for Jewish “headhunters and possibly also assassins” (wait, “possibly“?!)?
A screenshot of his famous article:
Any day now…
In fact, Dr. Hip-Hip Hypocrisy, a neo-Cantian and headbanger, allows his animus to override his own logical analysis and his own school of thought.
[*] Yes, I do think that’s relevant.
To quote Block-Futerman’s Rejoinder to Hoppe on Israel versus Hamas:
In the light of the approach that Professor Hoppe implies with his question on Dresden and German civilians during World War II, we have a few further remarks. In a brief autobiography of his, Hoppe says that:
“I was born shortly after the end of World War II, in 1949, in the British occupied zone of West Germany. My parents were both
refugees, endangered at or forcibly expelled from their original homes in Soviet-occupied East Germany. As countless others of my generation, then, I was raised by a generation of parents and teachers who had just experienced some horrific military defeat and were then subjected to harsh and often brutal treatment by hostile foreign occupiers. Humiliated, abused, and intimidated, then, the generation of my parents kept largely quiet and obediently went with the ‘flow’ as increasingly dictated in the West by the US. Hence, the ‘education’ of my generation was to a large extent the result of Anglo-American propaganda and indoctrination” (Hoppe, 2023, 179).
We cannot help but observe that Professor Hoppe does not present his teachers, or his parents for that matter (as opposed to his above question to us where he talks about “non-Nazis, Naziopponents…”) as Germans liberated by the Allies. Rather, he describes them as “a generation of parents and teachers who had just experienced some horrific military defeat and were then subjected to harsh and often brutal treatment by hostile foreign occupiers.” Obviously, those non-Nazi Germans and the Germans who were opposed to the Nazi regime were not defeated but freed from the latter. For anyone opposed to the Nazis, the real “occupiers” were these, and not the allies (the liberators). Moreover, according to Hoppe they were “Humiliated, abused, and intimidated,” instead of now being allowed (in West Germany) to the same degree of freedom that other Western nations enjoyed (unlike East Germany) and in contrast with the previous totalitarian Nazi regime. Furthermore, the Germans who were part of the Nazi war Machine did not experience “some horrific military defeat,” but got what they deserved as a consequence of what they initiated: engulfing the entire European continent and the world in a mad orgy of mass murder and destruction.
In the same respect, our esteemed colleague claims that his education “was to a large extent the result of Anglo-American propaganda and indoctrination.” Based on the words he uses, Professor Hoppe does not seem to regard the liberation of Germany by the Allies as a positive occurrence. Perhaps that is why talking about the defeat of the Nazis engenders the idea of Dresden being bombed instead of primarily the Nazi war machine being destroyed. Perhaps he considers the Nazis as the victims? If so (and we certainly cannot know, unless he grants us the benefit of replying), we beg to differ. The Nazis then, as Hamas and its supporters now, had agency. And they brought their own destruction on themselves.
UPDATE: An instructive quote from an interview with Hoppe about his reading habits:
Any books or websites you would like to recommend?
HOPPE: … I go most regularly to Mises.org and to lewrockwell.com. As for other sites, I have been called an extremist, a reactionary, a revisionist, an elitist, a supremacist, a racist, a homophobe, an anti-Semite, a right-winger, a theocrat, a godless cynic, a fascist and, of course, a must for every German, a Nazi. So, it should be expected that I have a foible for politically “incorrect” sites that every “modern,” “decent,” “civilized,” “tolerant,” and “enlightened” man is supposed to ignore and avoid.
