Israel's attack on the senior Hamas leadership in Qatar last Tuesday has predictably been condemned as a violation of Qatari sovereignty, and for allegedly escalating the Gaza conflict.

I don't recall similar condemnations when the US, rightly, sent its forces into Pakistan after Osama bin Laden, or killed various ISIS leaders. In fact, killing terrorist leaders is generally regarded as justified, especially when they are still actively plotting attacks.

Yet when Israel conducts a very precisely targeted bombing raid on Hamas leaders, who bear responsibility for the October 7 atrocities together with hundreds of other terrorist outrages against Israeli civilians, including the September 8 attack on buses in Jerusalem which killed six innocents, that's apparently unacceptable.

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