Articles by Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent

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Israel Paves the Way for Killing by Remote Control
Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent – The National, 19 Jul 2010

It is called Spot and Shoot. Operators sit in front of a TV monitor from which they can control the action with a PlayStation-style joystick. The aim: to kill. Played by: young women serving in the Israeli army. Spot and Shoot, as it is called by the Israeli military, may look like a video game but the figures on the screen are real people – Palestinians in Gaza – who can be killed with the press of a button on the joystick.

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