Targeted assassinations predictably trigger revenge attacks in a violent feedback loop

Evidence

Large bombs are dropped from Israeli jets into dense metropolitan areas, terrorizing entire neighborhoods while targeting militant organizers for assassination. Every targeted assassination and its collateral killing, like the counterpart suicide blasts, conjures a furious political funeral turned revengeful political rally and a likely suicidal or missile explosion in urban Israel. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 633

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Defeated officials often redirect vengeance onto what their enemies love — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 2889; Security-force killings of activists triggered escalatory cycles of mourning and reprisal — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 603; Decapitation strikes against decentralized networks are counterproductive — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1424