Hamas spiritual leader killed in air strike.

[Kilmer17]

I doubt it. I could see Russia actually siding with Israel before I see them joining the Terrorists.

I also dont see any other Muslim nation stepping in other than denouncements and speeches. They fear Israel's capability to destroy them all if they wanted to do so.

[NavyDave]

Not only that if the litle sheet heads decide to jump on Israel we will side with Israel.

Anyone notice that when ever Israel says they will make concessions including rolling out of the Gaza there are bombings to halt the process and of course there isnt any outrage towards the terrorists?

[Sarge]

The euroweenie response.

Too bad they don't say the same type stuff when Israelis are killed by terrorist bombs

BRITAIN: Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary: “It is unacceptable. It is unjustified and it is very unlikely to achieve its objective. A measurable restraint is required and I don’t believe Israel will benefit from the fact that this morning an (elderly man) in a wheelchair has been the target of assassination”

FRANCE: Herve Ladsous, foreign ministry spokesman: “France condemns the action taken against Sheikh Yassin, just as it has always condemned the principle of any extra-judicial execution as contrary to international law. The attack bears a serious risk of increasing tensions in the whole of the region.”

FRANCE: Dominique de Villepin, Foreign Minister: “At a time when it is so important to mobilise ourselves to advance the peace process, such acts can only feed the spiral of violence”

RUSSIA: Alexander Yakovenko, Foreign Ministry spokesman: “Moscow is deeply concerned about the situation. It threatens a new wave of violence which could sabotage efforts to restart negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis by the ‘quartet’ of international mediators and key regional powers.”

GERMANY: Joschka Fischer, Foreign Minister: “The situation is that everything must be done so that further escalation can be avoided. The government is deeply concerned about this development.”

EU: Javier Solana, Foreign policy chief: “This type of action does not contribute at all to create the conditions of peace. This is very, very bad news for the peace process. The policy of the European Union has been consistently condemnation of extra-judicial killing”

[Sarge]

And of course the response from the "Religion of Pieces" mouthpiece here in the US

WASHINGTON, March 22 /PRNewswire/ — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today condemned the assassination of a wheelchair-bound Palestinian Muslim religious leader, calling it an act of “state terrorism.” ...

In its statement, CAIR said:

“We condemn this violation of international law as an act of state terrorism by Ariel Sharon’s out-of-control government. Israel’s extra- judicial killing of an Islamic religious leader can only serve to perpetuate the cycle of violence throughout the region. The international community must now take concrete steps to help protect the Palestinian people against such wanton Israeli violence.

”We call on the United States to join its allies in condemning this political assassination and to make that condemnation meaningful by cutting the flow American-taxpayer dollars to Israel. It is these tax dollars that pay for the weapons Israel uses to carry out such illegal attacks. American repudiation of Israel’s brutal policies could also be demonstrated by the cancellation of Ariel Sharon’s upcoming visit to Washington.

“Bland administration statements urging ‘restraint by all parties’ will only be viewed internationally as tacit approval of Israel’s actions and will undermine our moral and legal basis for the war on terrorism.

”Until Israel views Palestinians as human beings, and not just animals to be slaughtered at will during ‘hunting season,’* there can be no viable and just resolution to the Middle East conflict. And until America adopts a truly even-handed approach to that conflict, our nation’s image will continue to suffer worldwide."

[SKINZ_DOMIN8]

Glad to see him go, but sad to say that when we get up tommorow and check out the news we will see that some suicide bomber has killed more poor Israeli children, the way most of those cowards do

Poor Israeli children? What about the poor Palestinian children that go hungry and die everyday from constant Israeli occupation/intimidation and checkpoints?

Ariel Sharon is a murderous thug and is no better than Osama Bin Laden.

Israel just took a step that it will regret for a long time. Violence only begets violence and the constant occupation of Palestine will serve as a perfect reason for terrorists to strike Israel.

[Kilmer17]

Yeah, Sharon shouild let guys like that continue to live and plot the killing of all the Jews.

What was he thinking????

Now the Terrorstinians have to respond. It's not like they were doing anything wrong to begin with.

[SKINZ_DOMIN8]

Now the Terrorstinians have to respond. It's not like they were doing anything wrong to begin with.

Hmmmm...........Those "terrorstinians" are only trying to defend their country against the illegal occupation.

Yeah they certainly are wrong there.

[Kilmer17]

It's not their country. It's not an occupation.

The Jews were their well before the terrostinians. There is no such thing (nor has there ever been) a place called "Palestine" (other than West VA).

The Israelis are only trying to prevent future killing of innocents. Those are the favorite targets of the cowards.

[SKINZ_DOMIN8]

Not an occupation?

Who gave Israel their "land"?

And who was living their before Israel?

And who legally lives their now?

And who gave Israel the majority of their weapons and jets?

If another country took over Texas or Hawaii would that not be defined as an "occupation"? (And would we not do some of the same things the so-called "terrorstinians" are doing now?

[SKINZ_DOMIN8]

..oh and "innocents" ??

what about the innocent Palestinian children that cannot get food and men that cannot get jobs due to the checkpoints and OCCUPATION ?

[SKINZ_DOMIN8]

and then I suppose Israel never, ever occupies anything?

(see the Sinai Penninsula, the West Bank, the Gaza strip)

yeah.......that certainly isn't what any sane person would call an "occupation". Yeah sure.

[Kilmer17]

LOL. You're insane.

Israel "occupied" those areas after terrorist muslims attacked them without provocation.

[Ghost of]

SKINZ yeah when you are being blocked at a border to a country that ISNT YOURS, you are certainly justified in blowing up women and children, you scum-sucking POS.

[redman]

Originally posted by SKINZ_DOMIN8

Not an occupation?

Who gave Israel their "land"?

And who was living their before Israel?

And who legally lives their now?

And who gave Israel the majority of their weapons and jets?

If another country took over Texas or Hawaii would that not be defined as an "occupation"? (And would we not do some of the same things the so-called "terrorstinians" are doing now?

Both Jordan and Egypt have disclaimed any right to the West Bank or Gaza Strip, repectively, so it sounds like it's Israel's land to begin with.

[SKINZ_DOMIN8]

Israel "occupied" those areas after terrorist muslims attacked them without provocation.

At least you got it half right: Israel did/does occupy Palestinian land.

Without provocation? I suppose then that the targeted killing of so called "terrorists" which frequently results in the loss of innocent civillian Palestinians is okay with you right but it is wrong for the Palestinians to fight back?

SKINZ yeah when you are being blocked at a border to a country that ISNT YOURS, you are certainly justified in blowing up women and children, you scum-sucking POS.

Just like Israel training soldiers to assasinate people they disagree with right? You smegma-sucking POS.

[Ghost of]

Yeah, if another "country" took over Texas, I'm certain American boys and young women would go into places with kids and pizzerias to blow up civilians.

And that's not an analogous situation. There was no "country" of Palestine, and the ARab portion of the divided land by British Mandate was SUPPOSED TO BE JORDAN.

So get on Jordan for that crap, Israel is right where it's supposed to be.

[Renegade7]

This is so stupid on Isreal's part. Look, i understand that Hamas has been bombing Isreal and breaking the peace on numerous occasions. But Isreal can't hit back like their a bunch of mob bosses wackin people with helicopters. Its rediculous, its embarrasing, and it'll only make things worse. What's going to piss everyone off even more is the fact he was in a wheelchair. C'mon guys, u have to be lil more civilized then that. If they knew where he was, y didn't they just arrest him? Until Isreal stops trying to out-blow Hamas, this deadly game is just goin to keep on goin and goin and goin. Same with Hamas. They can't keep blowing stuff up to match Isreal. Its stupid, and costin too many lives.

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[Ghost of]

Originally posted by SKINZ_DOMIN8

Just like Israel training soldiers to assasinate people they disagree with right? You smegma-sucking POS.

Disagree with?

DISAGREE WITH?

You mean they kill terrorists right?

Thats' what Americans are doing in Afghanistan and Iraq, you ******* twit. Just come out and say you hate Jews, you'll feel better.

And that you support men who urge the GENOCIDE of the Jews in Israel. This ain't about OCCUPATIOn and it never was.

If so, why was the PLO formed BEFORE 1967 when Israel gained the West Bank and Gaza in a war defending itself??

[Kilmer17]

Worse than terrorist blowing up busses full of women and kids?

They should take them all out, start at the top. Arafat should have a bullett in his skull.

[Ghost of]

Originally posted by Renegade7

This is so stupid on Isreal's part. Look, i understand that Hamas has been bombing Isreal and breaking the peace on numerous occasions. But Isreal can't hit back like their a bunch of mob bosses wackin people with helicopters. Its rediculous, its embarrasing, and it'll only make things worse. What's going to piss everyone off even more is the fact he was in a wheelchair. C'mon guys, u have to be lil more civilized then that. If they knew where he was, y didn't they just arrest him? Until Isreal stops trying to out-blow Hamas, this deadly game is just goin to keep on goin and goin and goin. Same with Hamas. They can't keep blowing stuff up to match Isreal. Its stupid, and costin too many lives.

They can't just go into many parts of Gaza. Sheesh. HELLO?! It would result in a battle that would take far more lives.

Especially lives of Israeli soldiers, and you don't waste the lives of your own people.

Wheelchair...who cares? Osama is on dialysis.

Why are there different rules for the Jews than the ones we abide by?

[Skins24]

Originally posted by SKINZ_DOMIN8

..oh and "innocents" ??

what about the innocent Palestinian children that cannot get food and men that cannot get jobs due to the checkpoints and OCCUPATION ?

So they have no choice but to blow themselves up taking as many Israilis with them as possible in order to get that food and jobs....I get it now.

Funny how the Skinz_Domin8 types are completely silent when the scores of suicide bombings are carried out, but they complain when a terrorist leader is killed. I want to laugh at them, but they are so screwed up, it's sad...

[SKINZ_DOMIN8]

Yeah, if another "country" took over Texas, I'm certain American boys and young women would go into places with kids and pizzerias to blow up civilians.

Its called guerilla warfare genius.........see the U.S. Revolutionary War, for starters.

If another country were to do to the United States what Israel is doing to the Middle East, there would most certainly be all out attack on the foreign invaders/occupiers just like Israel is.

Until Israel relinquishes all occupied territories and accepts the rights of the persecuted Palestinian citizens and accepts a Palestinian state there will be more and more violence even though I am against it--I understand it.

[WallyG3]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040322/D81FKIP81.html

Angry Palestinians Bury Slain Leader

Mar 22, 3:15 PM (ET)

By LARA SUKHTIAN

(AP)GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians chanting "revenge, revenge" flooded Gaza's streets Monday to bury assassinated Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, as militants pledged unprecedented retaliation - including threats against the United States.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and many world leaders condemned Monday's killing of Yassin, the most prominent Palestinian targeted by Israel in 3 1/2 years of fighting. The Bush administration said it was "deeply troubled" by the attack and that it had no advance warning.

"We will get revenge for every drop of blood that spilled," said Salman Bdeiri, a Hamas supporter crying near the mosque where Yassin prayed shortly before being killed by an Israeli airstrike.

Israel sealed off the West Bank and Gaza, banning Palestinians from Israel, and placed its security forces on high alert.

Later Monday, Palestinian militants fired several homemade rockets and mortar shells at Israeli targets in and near Gaza. To the north, Hezbollah guerrillas fired an anti-tank missile at Israeli troops along Israel's border with Lebanon, and Israel responded with an airstrike and artillery fire. No casualties were reported.

The Yassin assassination was part of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's effort to crush Hamas ahead of a possible Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. However, the killing was seen as a major gamble that could galvanize the Palestinians behind Hamas. Rival Palestinian militant groups immediately pledged solidarity with Hamas.

The missile strike dealt what could be the final blow to the stalled U.S.-led "road map" peace plan. It also angered Egypt and Jordan, moderate Arab states whose tacit support Sharon needs for any unilateral withdrawal from Gaza.

Since Yassin founded Hamas in 1987, the group has killed hundreds of Israelis in scores of attacks. Hamas wants to destroy the Jewish state and replace it with an Islamic one.

For the first time Monday, Hamas threatened the United States and suggested it might seek outside help in carrying out revenge attacks.

"The Zionists didn't carry out their operation without getting the consent of the terrorist American administration and it (the United States) must take responsibility for this crime," Hamas said in a statement. "All the Muslims of the world will be honored to join in on the retaliation for this crime."

In the past, Hamas has refrained from targeting U.S. citizens or interests, instead focusing on fund-raising and recruitment within the United States, according to senior U.S. law enforcement officials.

"Any time threats are made against the United States, we take them seriously" a U.S. counterterrorism official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said of Monday's statement.

While not condemning the assassination, the State Department said it increases tensions and would make it harder to pursue peace in the Middle East. "We are troubled," spokesman Richard Boucher said.

President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, told NBC that "it is very important that everyone step back and try now to be calm in the region."

But Israel said it will press ahead with more targeted attacks and raids.

"The war against terror has not ended and will continue day after day, everywhere," Sharon said. He called Yassin the "mastermind of Palestinian terror" and a "mass murderer who is among Israel's greatest enemies."

More than 200,000 Palestinians, some carrying billowing green Hamas flags, poured into the streets of Gaza City for Yassin's funeral procession, the largest gathering here in recent memory. Tens of thousands of furious Palestinians rallied across the West Bank.

Mourners in Gaza jostled to touch Yassin's flag-draped coffin, and women ululated and threw flowers and candy. Two Israeli helicopters flew above, and the sky was blackened from the smoke of burning tires.

At the cemetery, Yassin's body was paraded through an honor guard of 400 militants armed with anti-tank missiles and machine guns.

"Our leader has left us, but we say to him, 'Your lessons will stay within our hearts and minds and our generations,'" Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a Hamas leader, said in a eulogy.

In addition to Yassin, who was in his 60s, 12 Palestinians were killed Monday, seven in the airstrike, four in clashes with Israeli troops and one while handling explosives.

The attack came before daybreak, when Israeli helicopters swooped toward a Gaza street and fired three missiles as Yassin, his bodyguards and dozens of others left the mosque.

Blood and flesh splattered on the walls. Nearby windows shattered. Only a charred metal seat and two twisted wheels were left of Yassin's wheelchair, and a blood-soaked brown shoe lay in the street. Lying in tatters nearby was the brown blanket in which Yassin - a quadriplegic - was nearly always wrapped.

"Two or three people were lying next to him on the ground. One was legless," said taxi driver Yousef Haddad.

Among those killed were several of Yassin's bodyguards and his son-in-law. Seventeen people were wounded, including two of Yassin's sons.

After the attack, residents rubbed their hands in pieces of gravel mixed with Yassin's blood, a traditional sign of anger and a preparation for revenge.

The Palestinian Authority declared three days of mourning and closed schools. Flags at Yasser Arafat's headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah headquarters were lowered to half-staff.

Palestinian ministers stood as Arafat recited a Muslim prayer for Yassin and then added: "May you join the martyrs and the prophets. To heaven, you martyr."

The missile strike shook Arafat in more ways than one. The massive outpouring of support for Hamas showed how formidable a rival the Islamic group has become to Arafat's weakened Palestinian Authority.

Arafat also fears he may be next on Israel's hit list, said a confidant, Communications Minister Azzam Ahmed.

However, an Israeli security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Israel's campaign focuses on Hamas, at least for now.

Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Yassin's killing will eventually weaken Hamas.

"If we have to balance how many more terrorists Yassin would have sent, how many terror attacks he would have approved, if we weigh this on the scales, we acted rightly," Mofaz was quoted as telling a parliamentary committee.

But Sharon's critics in Israel warned that the Yassin killing could be viewed as an attack on Islam.

"This had nothing to do with security, nothing to do with protecting Israeli citizens. It's all about politics and public opinion," said lawmaker Yossi Sarid of the dovish Yahad Party.

Yassin's killing virtually buried hopes of reviving the road map, which envisioned an end to violence and the creation of a Palestinian state by next year.

"Such actions are not only contrary to international law, but they do not do anything to help the search for a peaceful solution," Annan said of the assassination.

European and Arab leaders condemned the killing. Egypt canceled a trip by legislators and other dignitaries to Israel to mark the 25th anniversary of the peace treaty between the two countries.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the assassination "is unacceptable, it is unjustified and it is very unlikely to achieve its objectives."

[SKINZ_DOMIN8]

So they have no choice but to blow themselves up taking as many Israilis with them as possible in order to get that food and jobs....I get it now.

Oh so you admit that Israel does persecute the Palestinians?

Thank You for making my point.

Hypocrisy is never totally hidden.

By the way, where would Israel be without United States weapons/jet fighters?

[Skins24]

Originally posted by SKINZ_DOMIN8

At least you got it half right: Israel did/does occupy Palestinian land.

Without provocation? I suppose then that the targeted killing of so called "terrorists" which frequently results in the loss of innocent civillian Palestinians is okay with you right but it is wrong for the Palestinians to fight back?

He was talking about the war genius.

That's when Isreal occupied that area (Sinai, ect.)