Israel Finally Going After Sheik Yassin

LGF carries this article on Israel finally going for the head of the vulture instead of pulling the feathers out one by one.

Israeli television is reporting that in addition to Rantisi, Hamas “religious leader” Sheik Yassin is also in the crosshairs.

Israel Television Channel 2 correspondent Udi Segal reported this evening that Israeli officials say that in addition to Hamas leader Rantissi, Israel has been decided to kill the top man in the Hamas, Sheik Yassin.

Speaking earlier on Channel 2, MK Yuval Steinitz, the head of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said that the Government of Israel would be shirking its duty and obligation to the citizens of Israel if it stood by with its arms folded just because the Palestinians are thinking about talking about having some kind of time out.

Steinitz said that President Bush would never take such a stand regarding American citizens facing terror, noting that the difference between Israeli and American operations is that while Israel waited for an opportunity to hit Rantissi with a minimum of peripheral damage, an American operation would have simply dropped a bomb on the top of Rantissi's house, killing everyone there.
He’s right about that. Recall that when we believed Saddam Hussein was having dinner at a restaurant in a residential area of Baghdad, we bombed the living hell out of that building and didn’t care whether there were innocent people around. Note: I’m not saying this was wrong either; but we have no right to hold Israel to such a blatant double standard.

Also note that these actions by Israel against the top leadership of Hamas come only after:

1) Abu Mazen stated that he absolutely would not take any action against the terror gangs, and

2) The terror gangs stated that they absolutely would not stop their attacks against Israel.

According to the terms of the “road trap,” the PA was supposed to have already taken steps to halt the terrorism by June 1st. No one should be surprised by this latest turn of events.