Re. Targeted Assassinations...
"There are no executions without a trial. There is no avenging someone who carried out an attack a month ago. We are acting against those who are waging terror against us. We prefer to arrest them and have detained over 1,000. But if we can't, and the Palestinians won't, then we have no other choice but to defend ourselves." Deputy Chief of Staff Major-General Moshe Ya'alon (Jerusalem Post, August 10, 2001).