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elisheva · 03-22-2004, 08:03 PM

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Originally posted by Katis:
<STRONG>Yeah, this is going to have consequences. The Palestinians have said they are going to retaliate against the U.S. for this because we enabled Israel. </STRONG>

How did the Americans 'enable' Israel to do this? Didn't they not even know about it in advance? I'm fairly sure I saw a quote from Condi Rice to that effect.
Then again, I'm not looking for logic from PA statements. So, to respond to that:
AP said that this is a new thing from Hamas, right? They're wrong. In March 2003, Yassin himself said that if Iraq is conquered, "the Islamic nation" should attack Western interests anywhere. http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Pa...=sd&ID=SP47903 And, more recently, check here: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/402530.html
I'm pretty sure Hamas has, or is developing, connections to global Islamist terrorism.

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<STRONG>What I was a little iffy about was the fact that they shot this guy with a rocket. Why do you need to shoot a missile to kill a person? There is just a greater chance that innocent people will be killed.</STRONG>

Yeah, but killing a terrorist leader is preventing the deaths of a bunch more innocent people. As for why they used a missile, I'm not privy to the inner workings of the IDF [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] but I'm sure it wasn't an arbitrary decision. Maybe they could be more sure of getting him like that? Anyways, I don't think any civilians were killed. Were there any?