“In the thousand years the Roman empire survived in Constantinople, 65 out of its 107 emperors were assassinated. In Venice in the 15^th and 16^th centuries 200 assassinations were plotted for foreign policy reasons…Other than probably the CIA, Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, holds the record for external assassinations with an estimated 2,700 victims….[USA] Drones have killed between 7,584 and 10,918 people since 2010. Usually they get the right person, but often they also get a group of innocent children.”

New Statesman 2^nd July 2021 pp 40-2