The way I see it, even if one chooses to believe Sudit on this point, if you send an indefusible bomb to a head of gov't, then you are at least prepared for the eventuality that it may reach him and kill him, even if you know the probability is slight. It's a bit like trying to snipe him off from a distant rooftop, knowing you are most likely to hit his security detail, which is also fine for your purposes. Morally it doesn't make much of a difference even if one stipulates that killing the head of gov't is somewhat worse.

And of course, as you note, this:

This week Begin's personal secretary, Yehiel Kadishai, and Herzl Makov, the director of the Menachem Begin Heritage Centre, in Jerusalem, told Haaretz that they knew nothing of the assassination attempt, which at the time had been played down by both Israel and Germany.

...does not make the story 'disputed', so there is no substance to wchurchill's charge of int'l dishonesty.


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