Volume II No. 36
 03-23-04
 The Assassination Of Sheik Ahmed Yassin
 { Just Deserts For An Unfeeling Murderer? }
 author: Vance Cureton
 © Copyright 2004

 Three well-aimed missles was all it took. And now the entire peace process 
 { if it can still be called that } in the Middle East has been changed. Perhaps 
 irrevocably.

 Sheik Ahmed Yassin is dead. Assassinated by the state of Israel. He was killed 
 instantly in a deadly airstike as he left a mosque after morning prayers. But 
 besides the obvious political questions as to what the wheelchair-bound
 Yassin's assassination will mean to the prospects for future peace in the region.
 A larger question looms as to whether or not this Israeli action is legitimate.

 Or merely uncomfortable for the Jewish state's allies.

 Already, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has denounced the assassination
 as a an action that will yield little benefit. "It is unacceptable, it is unjustified,
 and it is very unlikely to acheive its objectives."

 Similar doubts have been expressed by the White House. 

 Predictably, Sheik Yassin has now been characterized by his fellow Palestinians 
 as a martyr. Yassir Arafat stated about the slain Sheik. "May you join the martyrs 
 and the prophets. To heaven you martyr."

 Strong words of praise for a man who was the co-founder of Hamas. A militant
 Palestinian terrorist organization responsible for the murder of hundreds of 
 innocent Israeli citizens in countless suicide bombings. There is a common 
 saying - the exact words vary according to the situation. "One man's terrorist, 
 is another man's hero." { martyr }

 There is nothing heroic in murdering innocent people who are just going 
 about their daily lives.

 Sheik Yassin was unapologetic in his hatred of the state of Israel. And was
 enraged by Israel's illegal presense on Palestinian land. Thoughts shared by 
 Arafat and most of the Palestinian populace. But Arafat - yielding to international
 pressure - has in recent years denounced suicide bombings. While Yassin is 
 believed to have been directly involved  in the planning of such attacks. { or 
 at least to have given his blessing } Bombs that have killed Jewish babies. 
 Maimed Jewish elders at bus stops. Murdered college students. And destroyed
 young families.

 The suicide bomb is the weapon of choice of Hamas { officially known as The 
 Islamic Resistance Movement } and other militant Palestinian organizations. 
 Hamas doesn't use guerilla fighters against military targets. Or men riding in 
 fast cars firing point blank at checkpoints manned by equally well-armed Israeli 
 soldiers. Palestinians - with the encouragement of unprincipled men such as 
 Sheik Yassin - use the coward's method of warfare. A bomb wrapped tightly 
 around the waist of a person dressed in civilian garb. Ironically, when such 
 bombs explode. Civilians die. As the terrorists frequently attack "soft" targets
 that are far away from military installations.

 This is the path that Hamas has chosen. An illegitimate means of warfare.
 No different than Usama Bin Laden and his murderous cadre of jihadists.
 Or that of Chechen rebels responsible for equally reprehensible bombings
 of civilian targets in Moscow and other regions of the old Soviet Union. 

 So now, an untimely death has befallen a partially-blind, crippled old man in 
 a wheelchair. Was his assassination a moral outrage? As so many diplomats 
 around the globe, have thus described the act.

 History will make the final judgement on that account. But the unfeeling 
 hatred of Jews that Sheik Yassin carried in his heart for his entire life. A hatred 
 that permitted him to send suicide bombers against unarmed men, women, and 
 children. Is the same unfeeling hatred that was so ruthlessly returned in kind
 against him. 

 The Sheik showed no mercy towards Israeli innocents. Many of whom languish
 in hospitals, horribly disfigured, and are now dependent upon the charity of 
 others for the rest of their lifetimes. Sheik Yassin was fortunate that his death 
 occurred in only a matter of seconds. He did not suffer. He did not have time 
 to contemplate his own demise. 

 Such a painless ending was more than he deserved.

 But whether Sheik Yassin now resides in heaven with his fellow martyrs.  Or 
 in an unbearable hell with other evildoers. Those of us who still walk upon the 
 Earth as mortal men will never have to gaze upon his hateful face, again.
 

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