Israel: Sheik Yassin Also In The Crosshairs

Aaron Lerner Date: 10 June 2003

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.

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
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