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YASSIN THE ASSASSIN.....



The IDF has successfully killed Hamas leading terrorist Sheikh Yassin. It is a shame that Palestinians support such an aged monster, but that it the reality of the situation. The grovelling UK coverage of this event is typfied by the refusal of the BBC to even say the word "terrorist" in connection with Yassin. The IDF has done the world a favour by despatching this terrorist mastermind to infinity and beyond. Here is the response from Hamas. What lovely people.



UPDATE: Steven Plaut puts it like this:-



Subject: Let them Caterwaul - It is Time for Celebration



It does not Matter what the Israel Bashers Now Say



And it does not matter that it is much too little and much too late.



It does not matter that the anti-Semitic scum of the world is already

whining that the assassination of the Bloody Sheikh, the genocidal

Yassin, was "illegal" and an "obstacle" to peace. Any peace for

which the killing of Yassin is an "obstacle" is one that should be

prevented at all costs.



It does not matter that Israeli leftists, including Avraham Poraz from

the Shinui party, are already denouncing the killing of the sheikh and

would no doubt also denounce a targeted assassination of Hitler had they

been alive in 1943, or the targeted assassination of Haman.



It does not matter that the Sharon people are already trying to offset

the international heat by expounding the new "goodwill gestures"

they hope to make to appease Arafat and his stormtroopers. Gaza was the

Biblical military center of the Philistines, and Sharon is officially

pledged to recreating a center for Philistine barbarism there.



It does not matter that all those do-gooders and bleeding hearts now

caterwauling about Israel's "provocation" have long forgotten that

under Oslo it was the legal obligation of the PLO itself to assassinate

Sheikh Yassin, and that it was only in exchange for such an obligation

that Yossi Beilin and his sandbox crew promised to turn the West Bank

and Gaza over to the PLO in the first place.



It does not matter that even as Arafat is screaming his love for the

genocidal sheikh and proclaiming official PLO support for this his

beloved comrade in arms and for Yassin's program of genocide, the Left

is denouncing Israel's "act of terrorism".



It does not matter that Ariel Sharon showed cowardice in not also

mowing down the Hamas "mourners" marching in the Bloody Sheikh's

funeral procession.



It does not matter that the same people screaming how inhumane it was

for Israel to kill the mass murderer who happened to be confined to a

wheelchair never had anything to say about the Palestinian terrorists

tossing Leon Klinghoffer overboard.



It does not matter that the British Foreign Minister thinks

assassinating the nazi sheikh was an awful provocation, but cheered to

the skies when the sons of Saddam Hussein were dispatched and their

photos splashed on the network screens.



It does not matter that the media will quickly revert to its position

that Israel must be prevented from undertaking any action against

terrorism besides total capitulation.



It does not matter that this was the first act in well over a decade by

Israel that gave some credence to the slogan of "Never Again", a

decade otherwise characterized by craven cowardice and appeasement.



It does not matter that the same Bush administration and US media who

spent the weekend cheering because they thought the number two al-Qaida

leader had been killed in Pakistan are now suddenly all squeamish about

the killing of Arab Islamofascist terrorist leaders.



It does not matter that the Israeli political establishment is

maintaining a blind eye to the open identification with the Hamas and

its leaders by so many Israeli Arabs.



It does not even matter that Israeli super-comic Eli Yatzpen, well

known for his impression of the nazi sheikh, will now need to come up

with some new material.



It does not matter that Israel's Tenured Traitors are already turning

out their Op-Eds for the world newspapers who lease their services in

order to denounce Israel's "crime".



It does not matter that Yassin should have been killed decades ago and

that he would have been vaporized last year had not Ariel Sharon feared

using a heavy-enough bomb, one that might have produced "collateral

damages".



It does not matter that some Israeli Far Leftists were already

endorsing "negotiations" with the Hamas and so will now declare that

Israel has lost a golden opportunity to make peace.



Gaza is where the injured Samson took his revenge on the

barbarians.



The world politicians and the media may be bewailing this

uncharacteristic manifestation of Israeli courage. Let them. For, you

see, the very best commentary on the effects of the assassination of

this nazi sheikh is not on the BBC nor on CNN nor in the NY Times. The

best commentary is Chapter 15 of Exodus:



The Nations have heard of it and are enraged,

Panic and shuddering have seized the denizens of Philistine Gaza,

The leaders of Edom are frightened, while the champions of Moab

tremble,

And the courage of the pagan Canaanites melts away.

Fear and Panic have fallen upon them.

For Your might arm crushes them like a stone, while Your people

proceed ahead.



Quite.