www.HonestReporting.com reports that following the assassination of Minister Rehavam Ze\'evi two days ago, The Daily Telegraph (UK) published an editorial entitled, \"Israel\'s right of defence,\" in which it wrote:
\"[An] unnamed [American] administration official reacted to yesterday\'s murder of Rehavam Ze\'evi, the tourism minister, by urging Israel and the Palestinian Authority to build on the ceasefire that they reaffirmed last month... Yet the Americans should ask themselves what they would do in Ariel Sharon\'s position. The assassination of a cabinet minister is an outrageous assault on the Israeli state and its elected representatives...
\"America and Britain have built an impressive coalition against terrorism. But Israel\'s right to self-defence should not be sacrificed to its maintenance... Whatever the diplomatic imperatives of keeping the coalition together, it would indeed be strange to deny a state that has been prey to extremist violence for decades the right to respond forcefully to an unprecedented attack. The fight against terrorism should be indivisible.\"
\"[An] unnamed [American] administration official reacted to yesterday\'s murder of Rehavam Ze\'evi, the tourism minister, by urging Israel and the Palestinian Authority to build on the ceasefire that they reaffirmed last month... Yet the Americans should ask themselves what they would do in Ariel Sharon\'s position. The assassination of a cabinet minister is an outrageous assault on the Israeli state and its elected representatives...
\"America and Britain have built an impressive coalition against terrorism. But Israel\'s right to self-defence should not be sacrificed to its maintenance... Whatever the diplomatic imperatives of keeping the coalition together, it would indeed be strange to deny a state that has been prey to extremist violence for decades the right to respond forcefully to an unprecedented attack. The fight against terrorism should be indivisible.\"