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Chalk another one up They need some stickers which say: “Warning: heading up Hamas can seriously damage your health“:
The head of the Hamas militant Islamic movement in Gaza, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, has been killed in a targeted Israeli missile strike on his car.
Mr Rantissi’s death came 26 days after the founder of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, was killed in another “targeted killing” by the Israeli military.
Next candidate, please.
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I’d love to do it, honest I would, but I’ve just asked for a transfer to Hezbollah,runnning their London office.Thanks all the same.
I’ve been reading that they are going to pick another candidate but keep his name secret this time. Heh. That should last oh…about a month before Shin Bet or Mossad figures out who they are and removes them from the pool.
While the gene pool is only so big, sometimes I think we need a bigger bottle of chlorine.
I wonder if they’ll put someone less ‘extreme’ in place…what did it take…two weeks to turn around and organize another bombing? Keep hitting the leadership and it will break apart.
And of course much of the world, including the U.N. the E.U. the left wing New Zealand government, all condemn this killing as a violation of “international law”. Only the United States refrains from outright condemnation.
I give you the Left, carrying on Hitlers socialist vision of a world without Jews aince 1945.
This excellent killing was also condemned by that stern man of principle Jack Straw. What do you mean, who?
From The Sunday Telegraph: Foreign Secretary Jack Straw’s condemnation of the assassination of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi was starkly at odds with the White House, which said Israel “had the right to defend itself from terrorist attacks”.
Straw even went so far as to say the killing was ‘unlawful’ and, the best yet, ‘counter-productive’. As he failed to explain how a dead terrorist could be counter-productive, we’ll just have to remain vaguely mystified.
Straw was right. The killing was unlawful and counterproductive.
However this slaying is not as bad as the other news this week about Bush supporting the disengagement plan. That was a blunder of historic proportions.
friend of “Palestine” – Explain unlawful, please. Under what jurisdiction? You do understand, do you not, that there is no such thing as this mythic “international law” that has suddenly and mysteriously descended from outer space to rule the earth?
At the same time, perhaps you will tell us how a dead terrorist can be “counter-productive”.
“Verity”
You do understand, do you not, that there is no such thing as this mythic “international law” that has suddenly and mysteriously descended from outer space to rule the earth?
Mythic? LOL, thats funny. Especially the part about it being descended from outer space.
“How can a dead terrorist be counterproductive?” Well, Ive heard that there is already a replacement. And if and when the zionists get the next guy, there will be another one after that, and so on. Meanwhile, this has pissed off all Arabs & Muslims, and probably pissed off most of the civilized world. In this case the question should be: How is this useful?
Its unlawful in the sense that its extra-judical. So, if Israel were to make it lawful, or a judge were to sanction it….
Lawful killing…
It’s ok, friend of palestine, we know you’re orla guerin really.
Chris – Hysterical!!
Friend of the non-existent country of Palestine – OK. So how do you know an Israeli judge didn’t sign a death warrant for the deceased before they sent him to that big mint tea party in the sky?
Whether you laughed out loud or not, there is no such thing as international law. Sit up straight and pay attention.
Yes, of course, they’ve got a replacement. So? We kill him too. And the next one. Killing an Arab murderer will “piss off all the Arabs and Muslims”. Oooh-er. Sounds like “all the Arabs and Muslims” have a very strange set of values.
Disgusting Jack Straw,EU, UN Koff Annan and usual suspects…
Theres a war between Hamas and Israel so theres nothing “unawful” about killing Hamas members. I suppose for some people even Hamas member with a bomb suitcase in chest cannot be killed because couldnt be proved that he/she wanted to explode…can only be detained…
Jack Straw case is worst in hipocrisy levels , when US targeted Saddam in Gulf War was a “unlawfull” attempted murder supported by the same Jack Straw? and Bin Laden?
Meanwhile, this has pissed off all Arabs & Muslims, and probably pissed off most of the civilized world.
Business as usual, then.
More good news. Kinda like that Gopher bashing game, where they pop up through holes in a board only to be smashed down.
‘Cept with missiles.
Hamas themselves call this conflict a ‘war’, the head of an aggresive ‘army’ is a general – in war killing enemy ‘generals’ is quite reasonable, no?
As for the question of whether it is productive, why not? The metaphorical arrow in the eye shot into each successive leader at least removes the most talented terrorists from the ‘war’.
Finally Rantissi, Yassin, and co. are hardly great friends of Palestine. If all bombing and terrorism ceased then Israel would be forced into peace. Yassin and Rantissi would have lost their jobs if this had happened.
“Meanwhile, this has pissed off all Arabs & Muslims, and probably pissed off most of the civilized world.”
This presumes a previously benign attitude which even the most cursory examination will show to be none existent.
Arabs,Muslims and the rest of the civilised world have abandoned Irsael and she now sees herself as being alone and backed into a corner.Where do you hear condemnation of suicide murderers even the UK Prime Ministers wife can “understand the reason” for strappping a bomb to yourself and killling innocent people?
This world attitude is to blame for Israel’s actions,Sharon has said “So it’s illegal,so sue me”
Peter Bocking is correct. Israel is a tiny, minute country with a population of four or five million surrounded by oil rich hostile nations with an aggregate population in the tens of millions. Yes, she still have the nominal support of the United States, but the rest of her former allies are dropping away like flies to appease with stone age aggressors.
I do not approve of everything Israel does and frankly, I care for the “personality” of the country, if there is such a thing. But she is a democracy and an ally and hasn’t come whining to us to protect her. She’s protecting herself, and being scolded for it.
I didn’t hit the Preview button and hence missed that I left the word ‘not’ out when I intended to say ‘I do not care for the “personality” of Israel …
A vigorous and ruthless response to terrorism can work wonders. Look at how close the IRA cam to defeat in the ’70’s. As for this notion that we’re going to annoy Arabs by killing terrorists, so what? I don’t care if they’re annoyed if they’re also terrified, disorganised and on the run.
How on earth could we piss them off even more than they are already pissed off? These people have riots when someone steps on a page out of the Quran. They murder their own daughters just for avoiding an arranged marriage. They go ape-shit when an innocent illustration of Muhammad is printed in TIME Magazine.
They will always be pissed off no matter what we do.
If you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t,eventually you are damned if you care.
David Gillies – Yes. How peculiar that Friend of Palestine thinks we shouldn’t irritate terrorists. This is a very dyslexic misreading of the Western mindset. Bring ’em on!
The Israelis X-ed out an extremely undesirable number. Next?
Susan, nice to see you! Have you been to the BBC’s (Don’t) Have Your Say re the late Osama bin Laden’s offer. It made my hair curl.
To friend of Judea and Sumaria
The civilised world is pissed off because a terrorist gets his come-uppence? Some ‘civilised’ world that is!
It sends a message. It shows the shame culture societies of the arabs that we are not weak and will mark them for death if they so much as look at us funny. I can guarantee the next leader of Hamas will be a very nervous person. He will be living with the constant threat of an Apache special delivery over his head with every breath he takes. No more than a Jew killer deserves.
Now you may FOAD!
Every time I visit France I find the friendly, nice people
but read this:
I think we should take him on his offer – why do we want to bother with this killer? Let the Americans deal with their problem. We should make a peace with Al-Queda
Henri Talleuire, Paris, France
Meanwhile I believed that members of ‘civilized’ countries such as New Zealand might be able to disregard their xenophobic instincts but:
I think we should take him on his offer – why do we want to bother with this killer? Let the Americans deal with their problem. We should make a peace with Al-Queda
Henri Talleuire, Paris, France
and finally:
Seize the moment, be fair to your self. They are not terrorists, they are rebels and they have a fair case
Sea Sea, Taiwan
rebels against what? The Saud familly, but then why bomb the US?
This is a war, and in war, strategy and tactics are all. Quite clearly, Sharon means to take out the top leadership of Hamas (the thinkers and organizers), so that when the wall goes up between Israel and the Palestinians, nobody will be left in place to rule but thugs. The thugs won’t know what to do next except turn on each other in a power struggle, and when they have eliminated each other, the Palestinian people can finally decide that there’s a better way to get peace and a homeland than throwing rocks and bombs at people who are stronger than they are. A lot of Palestinians are going to suffer needlessly. For that, they can thank Arafat and Yassin and Rantisi, and all the other Arab mafiosi who could have done better if they’d ever cared about their people at all.
Another great job by the IDF – enjoy the pizzas.
A thought struck me while I was sitting here. Why should they be upset?
They say ‘we love death, more then we love life’, we give them death. Shouldn’t they be celebrating?
Hypocrites.
A spokesman for the Relief Deputy Assistant Undersecretary of Hamas, Mr x ( name and address withheld) said today that “Both he and the other member of Hamas would resist to the bitter end”
The other member was unavailable for comment.
The “friend of Palestine” has been most competently refuted already, so I’ll just add this, in response to his comment that killing Rantisi merely brings a replacement:
If that’s the case, the replacement will be killed. And his replacement. And his replacement. The Israelis have plenty of bullets and missiles, so they can keep this up for a while. But I’m guessing the list of volunteers is much shorter than most people think.
I’d like to point out that, despite the U.S. government refusing to condemn the strikes, I do not believe that this was the most intelligent solution. A viable option, perhaps, but not the slightest bit of thought involved. Take out the leader, and leave us with misguided, pissed-off Arabs, as if the situation in the Middle East needs any more confusion. If we’re going to call this a war, I think the targeting of officers is usually frowned upon.
alex – As people have said above, the Arabs are already pissed off. What are they going to do that’s worse than what they’ve been doing? Refuse to eat their vegetables? And when did not pissing off Arabs become a priority in the enlightened West?
Peter Bocking and E. Nough – Yes, I think the pool of candidates may be drying up.
‘If we’re going to call this a war, I think the targeting of officers is usually frowned upon.’
This just in: it’s not. Never has been.
Good points. This is why Sharon is in charge of Israel, and not me.