(Telegraph-UK) Barbara Amiel - None of us likes "extra-judicial" measures, but it is hypocrisy laid on with a trowel to suggest that psychotic beings such as Yassin and Rantisi are anything other than murderers in cold blood. Hamas and similar groups, such as Hizballah, Islamic Jihad or Arafat's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, have no interest in an honorable two-state solution. Apologists for these groups routinely condemn suicide bombers and then describe them as part of "the cycle of violence in the Middle East" which would stop if only Israel would address their grievances. No doubt. Their grievance is the existence of Israel. Arab terrorism against the State of Israel began in 1948 and never stopped. If you are against Israel's security fence, in favor of the Arab so-called "right of return" (a demographic weapon of mass destruction which no Israeli government could accept), and opposed to Israel's withdrawal plans, the only possible end you have in mind is the total elimination of the Jewish state.
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