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| Good Riddance To One More Terrorist Leader |
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| On March 23, the Israeli Air Force assassinated Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the "spiritual leader" of terrorist group Hamas. �Since the targeted killing, several terrorist groups have threatened attacks on Israel and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and some countries have even denounced the killing. �It is my firm belief that a select few people do not deserve to live, and Yassin, along with Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, was one of those people. �That being said, I'd like to give kudos to Israel and to Ariel Sharon for erasing this human piece of trash from existence. �For the rest of the people who disagree with the killing of Yassin, however, I have one question for you: are you out of your minds? |
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| I personally do not see how anyone could say the killing of Yassin, a man who was confined to a wheelchair, was a bad thing. �I mean, this is a leader of the same people who cheered in the streets following Sept. 11, 2001, after they watched planes bring down the World Trade Center, an act that left thousands of Americans dead and destroyed countless families. �Some Palestinians decry the killing because Yassin was crippled and in a wheelchair, saying he was obviously not a threat. �I hope that these same people also denounce the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, an American Jew who was wheelchair-bound and was shot by Palestinian terrorists and dumped over the side of the Achille Lauro, a boat he was celebrating his wedding anniversary on in October of 1985. |
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| Why, then, is there so much outrage over the killing of this man? �Many people try to pit Sharon as a terrorist and have called him a threat to peace, but let us look at the facts here, shall we? �Last May Sharon strongly supported a U.S.-backed peace plan that "begins with a halt to violence and envisages a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 2005," according to a CBS News report. �This peace plan is still more or less underway, and Sharon only created the controversial security fence between parts of Israel and the Palestinian territories to prevent suicide bombers from causing more terror to his citizens. �If anybody is to blame for unsuccessful peace attempts, it is suicide bombers and leaders of their groups, people like Yassin and Yasser Arafat. �These people pose the real threat to society, not Sharon who is simply acting to protect the people of his country. |
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| If we look back at history, it is clear that Israel did all it could to create peace, even at the end of wars where Israel practically gave back all the land it won.� Furthermore, Israel has offered numerous peace agreements in the past, and has even supported the creation of an independent Palestinian state, only to have them rejected by the Palestinian leaders because of an "all-or-nothing" mentality that makes compromise impossible. �This leads us back to the beginning. |
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| Israel's assassination of Yassin was a major in-your-face move and practically let Palestinian militants and the world know that it will not tolerate any more terror attacks.� Shortly after the move, Sharon vowed Arafat would be next, and hopefully he remains true to this word. �Israel has to cut off the terrorist plague and targeting terrorist leadership is the first step to peace. �It is because of these reasons that I fully stand behind Israel in their attempt in vanquishing terrorism and it really sickens me to think that so many people did not believe Yassin deserved to die. �Terrorism is an unforgivable act and Sheikh Ahmed Yassin signed his death warrant when he formally created Hamas in 1978. |
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Copyright Gerry Wachovsky, 2004, and Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. |
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Letters To The Editor Regarding This Article: |
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Retaliation's Contradictions |
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(from April 13, 2004) |
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Israel's Crimes |
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(from April 14, 2004) |
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