Odds are, if you're reading this, you know about the death of Abdel Aziz Rantisi, who was the leader of Hamas before his car was struck by Israeli missles, presumably fired from IDF helicopters. No link since it should have been all over the news site of your choice. Hamas, naturally, has vowed revenge. Here's a hypothetical conversation between me and the new Hamas leadership (NHL):
Me: Now that Rantisi is dead. What will you do?
NHL: We will attack Israel until all the Jews are dead and the Zionist entity no longer exists. All of Palestine will belong to the Palestinians.
Me: What would you be doing if Rantisi had not been killed:
NHL: Under his leadership, we would be attacking Israel until all the Jews are dead and the Zionist entity no longer exists. All of Palestine will belong to the Palestinians.
Uh huh.
Many of the news stories are calling it an assassination. Nope. Hamas is at war with Israel and Rantisi was it's commanding officer. Therefore he was a legitimate military target, just as Japanese General Isoroku Yamamoto was during WWII and just as Saddam Hussein was during the invasion of Iraq. The fact that Rantisi was a murderer as well as a commander only makes his death even more justifiable.
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