The following is a contrarian mini-Blog, really an elongated tweet, because this Blogger has no substantive  support, research, eyewitness testimony or deathbed confessions to support his contrary belief. This Blogger’s contention is all rumor, drawn from a conversation with an Israeli in Copenhagen, a conversation fueled by aquavit. The respected Israeli journalist, Ronen Bergman has written a brilliant new book, RISE AND KILL FIRST, about the Israeli state sponsored assassination bureau. “Since World War II, Bergman calculates, the Jewish state and its pre-state paramilitary organizations have assassinated more people than any other country in the Western world — some 2,300 “targeted killing operations,” most of them against Palestinians, but also aimed at Egyptians, Syrians, Iranians and others … WASHINGTON POST.” . “Summary executions of suspects who posed no immediate threat, violations of the laws of Israel and the rules of war — were not renegade acts by rogue ope