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Hamas in Transition

The best comment about the recent death of Sheikh Yassin was by David Bernstein over at the Volokh Conspiracy:

The Happiest Day of His Life: Yassin: "The day in which I will die as a shahid [martyr] will be the happiest day of my life." So I guess it's win-win.

The best collection of material about Yassin is at Little Green Footballs. It includes links to Sheikh Yassin a Life in Pictures and I guess what could be called Sheikh Yassin a death in Pictures. (Warning, as LGF notes the pictures are quite graphic and gory.) Or just go to the website and scroll or search.
Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs tells us that Yassin wasn't really a Sheikh.
And IMRA reminds us with a series of interviews with Dr. Rantisi that the new boss is the same as the old boss.

IMRA: What do you see ultimately happening to the people who moved into Israel . We have the people who came from Europe , Russia , the Arab states.

Rantisi: I will tell you something. I feel that it is justice for us to do with Jews as they did with us.

IMRA: To let them stay?

Rantisi: In the same way that they dispossessed our people. They killed thousands of Palestinians in tens of massacres and they destroyed homes. So I think it is just to do with them as they did with us.

Dr. Rantisi (did he take the Hippocratic oath or the hypocritical oath?) engaged in a debate with his wife whether his son should be a martyr. I guess that makes him more sincere (and I suppose more loathsome) than most terror leaders who are eager to volunteer other people's children but who, as yet, do not seem to have ever sent their own to the next world.
Crossposted on Israpundit and Soccer Dad.

Posted by SoccerDad at March 25, 2004 1:18 PM