Good morning, everybody!!
Is it possible?? Be still, my heart!!
Israeli minister says Palestinian PM a target
Reuters ^ | May 22, 2007
Posted on 05/22/2007 12:39:14 AM CDT by West Coast Conservative
Israel could kill Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas as part of a retaliation campaign for rocket salvoes by the dominant Islamist group in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli minister said on Tuesday.
Israel has escalated its threats against Hamas political leaders and launched air strikes and ground fire that have killed 27 Palestinians during a week-old flare-up in cross-border violence.
Asked if Haniyeh was on Israel’s hit-list, Deputy Defence Minister Ephraim Sneh said in a radio interview: “I’ll put it like this — there is no one who is in the circle of commanders and leaders in Hamas who is immune from a strike.
“For what does political Hamas do? It gives the operational approval, if not the actual ratification, to those who are doing the fighting,” Sneh told Israel Radio.
“When someone preaches that the State of Israel should be destroyed, he is not in the political echelon, he is a terrorist in a suit.”
Hamas’s 1988 founding charter calls for the Jewish state’s destruction but, since taking power in Palestinian elections last year, the group has proposed a long-term truce with Israel.
A senior Israeli defence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters last June that Israel did not hold Haniyeh responsible for the actions of Hamas’s armed wing.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1837614/posts
And more good news....
Lebanese government orders army to finish off Fatah Islam
Reuters ^ | May 22, 2007
Posted on 05/22/2007 3:05:05 AM CDT by West Coast Conservative
The Lebanese government has authorized the army to “finish off” Islamic militants fighting Lebanese troops for the third straight day Tuesday in a refugee camp in the country’s north.
The decision by the Cabinet of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora reflected the government’s determination to pursue the Islamic militants who staged attacks on Lebanese troops on Sunday and Monday, killing 29 soldiers. Some 20 militants have also been killed, as well as an undetermined number of civilians.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1837636/posts
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First the Ethiopians in Somalia, and now the Lebanese, have successfully ignored the handwringing about “hearts and minds”....
Could this be a trend??