Letters to the Editor

Dear editor, 

Like Chris Core (“Assassinations do not prevent terrorism,” Spartan Daily, Nov. 19, 2019), I am also a skeptic.

The U.S. assassination of al-Baghdadi, the ISIS leader, does not put an end to ISIS. 

No one likes ISIS; it does not fight for anyone or anything, for that matter, save for the Caliphate that no one in the region seems to want. 

Taking out the Caliph, therefore, very likely disrupted the ISIS network, perhaps even the momentum (if any of it was left), which is an accomplishment of sorts. 

The article, however, does not mention Israel’s more recent targeted assassination of the Islamic Jihad chief, Baha Abu al-Ata, in Gaza. Here, that “assassinations do not prevent terrorism” is actually demonstrated by the ensuing cycle of violence (yet again). 

Here, anger is deep-rooted, irrespective of religious fanaticism. 

Terror beget terror.     

 

Sincerely,

Ignat Ayzenberg

Jewish studies program coordinator    

history lecturer