Hamas, Islamic Jihad seek revenge

[JohnLocke]

Hamas, Islamic Jihad seek revenge
Khaled Abu Toameh
Jerusalem Post

Hamas and Islamic Jihad have vowed to step up their attacks against Israel in the aftermath of Thursday's killing of the head of the armed wing of Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip.
Leaders of the two groups said over the weekend that the killing of Muqled Hamed and two of his companions in an IAF rocket attack on their car dealt a fatal blow to efforts to arrange a temporary truce with Israel.
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Muhammad al-Hindi, another Islamic Jihad leader in the Gaza Strip, said the killing of Hamed would only increase the determination of his men "to pursue the path of martyrdom and resistance." He urged the Palestinian Authority to "stop seeking peaceful solutions and to join the resistance against the Zionist enemy."
Islamic Jihad's armed wing, al-Quds Brigades, said it would inflict a "painful lesson" on Israel. "This new crime will not go without punishment," the group said in a statement. "Israel will pay a high price for every crime it perpetrates against our people, its leaders, and its officers. The Zionist enemy has not learned from past assassinations and did not understand that our people would not surrender."
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"It's time for these countries to realize the fact that the Zionist mentality does not recognize peaceful solutions and is responding to our initiatives by more killings and destruction," he said. "These killings and the latest military escalation in Rafah and Nablus reflect a Zionist mentality that is thirsty for blood."
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"Reprisals will hit Tel Aviv," chanted the marchers. "Revenge, revenge," they shouted, brandishing black Islamic Jihad and green Hamas flags.
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[MikeGalos]

1. Ah, the right-wing, religious fanatics are heard from

Glad their such men of peace. Guess this put a crimp into their trying to turn the only liberal democracy in the region into yet another 13th century feudal theocracy.

Darn shame.

[JohnLocke]

2. Well put, Mike.

"Guess this put a crimp into their trying to turn the only liberal democracy in the region into yet another 13th century feudal theocracy."

Just like almost every other Arab nation today (except Bahrain and Qatar).

[newyorican]

3. There would have been at least one more..

if the democracy in Iran hadn't been overthrown by the US.

[MikeGalos]

4. Perhaps

We'll never know what would have happened. It's just as likely that Moussadegh would have been overthrown by the right-wing religious fanatics anyway.

In either case, it would have been better had we not put Pahlavi into power but it IS realistic to say that we can't know whether an Iranian democracy would have survived since so few in the Middle East have.

[JohnLocke]

5. Yes, oftentimes the U.S. meddles when it shouldn't.