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"D. Strang" wrote:
"Eric Moore" wrote

The leader of Hamas has been killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Yawn...

Guess there's a new "leader" eh?

Well, other than the fact that this guy *founded* Hamas and has led it
for 17 years.

A *huge* blow against the terrorists.

Hmm...I see lot of people are mistaken about the actual signifance of this
event.

Yassin was a spiritual figurehead of Hamas. He was not an operational
leader. Israeli could have killed him many times over in the past. They
certainly knew all the time where he was and, being a nearly blind man in a
wheelchair, it was not like he was going to do much hiding anyway. Israeli
announced several months in advance that they're going to kill him this
time, and he said, bring it on, and they did.

I am not sure this was a smart move. On one hand, Yassin was a supporter of
terrorism and former active terrorist himself. On the other hand, he had no
touch with operations anymore, and he enjoyed signifant popularity even
amongst those who did not support Hamas or were kinda between. This may
produce severe backlash.



Exactly Israel now is moving out of the region and they decided that
they want him out before they move out.


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The freer the society, the more expensive the elections.

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