SHARON FOES: CEASE-FIRE BID BLOWN TO SMITHEREENS

New York Post ^ | 7/24/02 | URI DAN

[kattracks]

July 24, 2002 -- JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday hailed the dramatic assassination of Hamas' military commander as one of Israel's greatest military moves, while backers of the terror chief vowed revenge.

"This operation was in my view one of our biggest successes," Sharon told his Cabinet ministers a day after an Israel fighter flattened the home of Salah Shehada with a 1-ton bomb. "We hit perhaps the most senior Hamas figure on the operational side."

[goldstategop]

Quote of the day from the Arafart butcher, which takes the FreeRepublic Prize For Unmitigated Chutzpah:

"This is a crime. No normal-minded, conscientious and feeling person could imagine such a massacre," Palestinian President Yasser Arafat told reporters at his West Bank compound.

[Fzob]

bump to that

[The Great Satan]

Hamas' spiritual leader, the wheelchair-bound Sheik Ahmed Yassin, said Monday before the attack that Hamas might halt terror attacks on Israelis if Sharon ordered troop withdrawals from West Bank cities.

Hmmm, the sheik's next-door neighbors might want to think about finding new digs, pronto.

[DoughtyOne]

Israeli left-wing opposition leader Yossi Sarid, who has backed previous "targeted killings," said the Shehada slaying displayed "the worst possible timing" and was "a form of terror." "There were international and regional efforts. The entire world, including the United States, was working on a cease-fire, so why do it now?" he told Army Radio.

This should be guilded in gold.  Name one time in the last fifty years when this statement couldn't have been made.

I have to pat myself on the back because Monday morning I stated that Israel should bomb to smitherines every Hamas official who sticks his head out from under his rock to condemn them and glory in the attacks on Israel.  Well, guess what, they must have been listening.

Israel, kudos folks.  If someone was celebrating a bombing of my nation I'd be demanding my leaders take them out!

What is one Hamas leader blown to smitherenes?  A good start!