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Is Israel's decades-long assassination policy becoming normalised?
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Israel assassinated Iran's supreme leader on the first day of the war — killing senior military, intelligence and political figures afterwards. For decades, assassination has been Israeli policy. But what has the strategy achieved? And is it becoming normalised?
In this episode:
- Rami Khouri, Distinguished Fellow at the American University of Beirut
- Illan Pappe, Israeli historian and chairperson of the Nakba Memorial Foundation
- Luca Trenta, Associate Professor at Swansea University who specialises in state-sponsored assassinations
Host: James Bays
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