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Israel Plays With Fire
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Contributor | The Oncoming Storm |
Last Edited | The Oncoming Storm Mar 28, 2004 11:07pm |
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News Date | Thursday, March 25, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | by Roane Carey & Adam Shatz
At 5:20 on the morning of March 22, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of Palestinian Hamas, was leaving a mosque in the Gaza Strip when he was killed in an Israeli helicopter gunship attack--a "targeted" assassination that left nine others dead and caused several serious injuries. A half-blind quadriplegic in his late 60s, Yassin was in his wheelchair when he died; his body will be added to the trail of thousands of Palestinian and Arab corpses that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (who is reported to have personally supervised the Gaza hit) has piled up since the 1950s, when he conducted brutal raids against Arab villagers across Israel's border. The attack--condemned by the entire world apart from the United States--is yet another reminder of Sharon's disregard not only of Arab life but of the lives of his fellow Israelis, many of whom are likely to perish in the "earthquake" of revenge Hamas has promised in retaliation. |
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