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Assassination is incompatible with peace Mazin Qumsiyeh As the 14th best-funded army in the world, Israel could have arrested the quadriplegic and partially blind spiritual elder of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). But history shows that such extrajudicial executions (200 so far) create instability and a cycle of revenge that serves Israel’s colonization efforts. Israel’s assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin removes any doubt that political Zionism is incompatible with peace. Political Zionism started in 1845 with a British feasibility study for Jewish colonization in the Mideast to further British interests in weakening the Ottoman Empire and to establish connections to colonial holdings in India. The adoption of this political (as opposed to religious or cultural) Zionism by a small but very influential segment of Ashkenazi Jews in Europe was deemed crucial for success. Zionism remained marginal among Jews until it capitalized on the atrocities of World War II. Early advocates of Zionism did not shy away from using the term colonization to describe their activities or to describe the use of violence to achieve their goals. Before 1917, Palestinian Christians, Muslims and Jews coexisted in relative harmony. Violence between 1917 and 1949 resulted in the establishment of a Jewish state. Israel rejected international law by adopting exclusionary laws that prevent refugees from returning. The wall being built in the occupied territories with the explanation that it keeps Palestinian suicide bombers from attacking Israelis is not separating Israel from the occupied areas but is surrounding Palestinians in small cantons to force them to leave. Just as South Africa shed apartheid, Israel must shed Zionism and become a country for people of all religions rather than a country for and by Jews. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (including the right of refugees to return) provides the most logical road map to peace. The American public can no longer afford to allow our government to keep supporting violence and war against the will of the international community. Only then will we begin to rectify injustices and bring peace at home and abroad. Mazin Qumsiyeh (http://qumsiyeh.org) is co-founder of the Palestine Right to Return Coalition (al-awda.org). Islamic Association For Palestine Web: www.iap.org Proudly Serving Palestine and Al Quds The Islamic Association For Palestine (IAP) is a national grassroots organization serving the American Muslim, Arab and Palestinian communities and dedicated to advancing a just and comprehensive solution to the cause of Palestine. sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/23/EDG1H5PI2 N1.DTL
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What about your mullahs killing each other?
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Assassination is incompatible with peace
slightly better than that! Mazin Qumsiyeh As the 14th best-funded army in the world, Israel could have arrested [Yassin]
Why should Israel have unnecessarily risked the life of one single Israeli soldier to send the evil soul of that vile loathesome despicable terrorist leader straight down to hell where it belongs? Israel did arrest Marwan Baghrouthi, but it doesn’t feel itself to be under any general obligation to do so with every single criminal and terrorist gang leader. And if you’re talking legalities, then Israel is in a de facto state of war, and Yassin was not an Israeli citizen, and was not in Israel or in Israeli-administered territory, so in such circumstances the right of trial is drastically abridged for quasi-military commanders like the so-called "Sheikh" Yassin. You might as well ask why the U.S. and Britain didn’t arrest Hitler in Berlin in 1944. the quadriplegic and partially blind
If he was so frail, then why didn’t he take himself "hors de combat", intead of maintaining a role in commanding and inciting terrorism???? spiritual elder of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
Was Adolf Hitler the "spiritual elder" of the NSDAP movement, according to you? I’m curious to know! [...snip standard pre-packaged formulaic propaganda...] If you want to know what "Hamas" _really_ stands for in Arabic, then just look at this in HTML: <font color=ff0000ح</fontاقدون<br <font color=ff0000م</fontنافقون<br <font color=ff0000أ</fontغبياء<br <font color=ff0000س</fontيقتلون<P — Hamas motto: لا إله لهم إلا الموت،
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