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...money?

My point is a simple one: the company was hired by someone. Was it the opposition party? To say this is entirely Israel's doing implies the Slovenian party that benefits just happens to have gotten lucky. The reality is likely considerably murkier than that.

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Any company that sells this type of services exists as an extension of its parent state. Any contract it offers, especially to a political entity in another state, will be scrutinized by state authorities and allowed by them or not. Sometimes, those contracts will be forced on the company based on state-level negotiations.

Noone is saying that the party that contracted this company (if indeed it was a Slovenian party and not the Israeli state itself) for this service doesn't carry blame. But both the company itself and the state of Israel carry just as much blame for offering, permitting, and carrying out such services.

By your logic, if someone were to found a legal private paid assassin company in France, and then the opposition party in Germany hired this company to assassinate the German chancellor, you'd say that it's unfair for Germany to blame France for this.

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Would Black Cube have accepted a client that was very pro-Palestinian and was trying to lure voters away from the pro-Israel party?
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And to say it's not Israel's doing implies that Israel just happens to have gotten lucky.
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To say that this is entirely the Slovenian party's fault implies that Israel cannot govern their own state. Both are complicit.
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> implies that Israel cannot govern their own state

Or more simply that what the Israeli company did, is not illegal in Israel.

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I can guarantee you that it is very illegal if you target the wrong government.

Selective prosecution is a recurring issue under Israeli jurisprudence.

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Okay, sure. Is Slovenia the wrong government?
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