March 23, 2004

Another charismatic terrorist

Actually, I'm not upset for Sheikh Yassin's death, although I don't mean the death should've come as any sort of assassination. Sheikh Yassin was promoting a culture of death and destruction and his health condition and charismatic figure shouldn't fool us.

Apparently he has been more of a violent political activist than an educated Islamic cleric--He didn't finish his educaition in Al-Azhar university in Egypt. So there is no particular distinction between him and other terrorists who approve attacking non-military targets for their --however sacred-- political-national agenda.

in this manner, Sheikh Yassin, is not different than other terrorist leaders or groups such as Osamah Bin Laden, Masoud Rajavi (MKO), Motalefeh Eslami (Iranian extremist group in 60s), Saeed Emami (Iranian intelligence official responsible for killing of intellectuals in late 90s), ETA, IRA, etc.

I believe that methods are more important than goals, and judging the methods based on goals is completely misleading. Sheikh Yassin is as much terrorist as Sharon in that both believe they can reach their political goals by means of violence and terror.

By the way, take a look at a small poll I've put in my Persian blog asking my readers about their feeling on Sheikh Yassin's death. Surprizingly about 35% are sad or very sad, while 35% have no feelings and about 30% are even happy or very happy for the death of Sheikh Yassin. I know these online poll are not reliable at all, but it doesn't hide how much young Iranians are different with Arab Muslims in the mid-east.

Posted by hoder at March 23, 2004 5:30 AM

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Mr. HD, If the majority of Iranian complains that our government has no business in Lebanon – why you have to care to side with issues that either ways would hurt us? I believe it is in best interest of Iran that the two sides, Palestinian and Israelis, to reach into a peaceful agreement. However, the forces conforming the political situation in current middle east have never been in such reactionary and anti-peace like now it is. I purpose next time to leak a vanilla ice pop if you have to leak something. Stay out of politics of ME. It suits you better.
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The percentages you noted here don’t correspond to what actually the poll shows! Do you know what you doing mate?
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It doesn't take an awful lot of courage to murder a paraplegic in a wheelchair. But it takes only a few moments to absorb the implications of the assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin yesterday. Yes, he enthusiastically endorsed suicide bombings - including the murder of Israeli children. Yes, if you live by the sword, you die by the sword, in a wheelchair or not. But something went wrong with the narrative of the news story yesterday, and something infinitely more dangerous - another sinister precedent - was set for our brave new world. Take the old man himself. From the start, the Israeli line was simple. Yassin was the "head of the snake" - to use the words of the Israeli ambassador to London - the head of Hamas, "one of the world's most dangerous terrorist organisations". But then came obfuscation from the world's media. Yassin, BBC World Service Television told us at lunchtime, was originally freed by the Israelis in a "prisoner exchange". Then, later in the day, the BBC told us that he had been freed "following a deal brokered by King Hussein". Which was all very strange. He was a prisoner of the Israelis. This "head of the snake" was in an Israeli prison. And then - bingo - this supposed monster was let go because of a "deal". So let's remember what the "deal" was. Yassin was set free by no less than Benjamin Netanyahu when he was prime minister of Israel. King Hussein wasn't a "broker" between two sides. Two Israeli Mossad agents had tried to murder a Hamas official in Amman, the capital of an Arab nation which had a peace agreement with Israel. They had injected the Hamas man with poison, and the late King Hussein called the US president in fury and threatened to put the captured Mossad men on trial if he wasn't given the antidote to the poison and if Yassin wasn't released. Netanyahu immediately gave in. Yassin was freed and the Mossad lads went safely home to Israel. So the "head of the snake" was let loose by Israel itself, courtesy of the then Israeli prime minister - a chapter in the narrative of history which was conveniently forgotten yesterday. Which is all very odd. If the elderly cleric really was worthy of state murder, why did Netanyahu let him go in the first place? It was not a question that anyone wanted to ask yesterday. But there was something infinitely more dangerous in all this. Yet another Arab had been assassinated. The Americans want to kill Bin Laden. They want to kill Mullah Omar. They killed Saddam's sons. Just as they killed three al-Qaeda men in Yemen. The Israelis repeatedly threaten to murder Yasser Arafat. It's getting to be a habit. No one has begun to work out the implications of all this. For years, there has been an unwritten rule in the cruel war of government-versus-guerrilla. You can kill the men on the street, the bomb-makers and gunmen, but the leadership was allowed to survive. Now all has changed utterly. Anyone who advocates violence - even if they are palpably incapable of committing it - are now on a death list. So who can be surprised if the rules are broken by the other side? The top guys are now in the firing line. Let us not say we didn't know.
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