Good Riddance, Sheik Yassin

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Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Al Rantel
Monday, March 22, 2004

President Bush was asked what he had to say about the capture of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein after Hussein was found appropriately hiding in a rat hole and captured by American soldiers. Bush's answer was a straightforward "Good riddance." The reporter correctly noted that Saddam had tried to kill President Bush’s father.

The same answer should be given to the Israeli Defense Forces' elimination this week of Sheik Yassin, the spiritual leader of Hamas, one of the world's most notorious terrorist organizations. Yassin was a man responsible for far more killings of innocents than Saddam's dreams of killing the elder President Bush or any other Americans.

Yet, as expected, there is condemnation to one degree or another of the Israelis from all corners. The condemnation comes from the Arabs, who vow revenge (like they ever stopped trying to kill as many Israelis as they can get to), to the United States, with the White House calling the killing of Yassin "counter-productive."

I beg to differ. When a vicious terrorist is eliminated from this Earth, that is quite productive. It is more productive than the capture of Saddam.

For Israel, Sheik Yassin was the spiritual leader of a group that has never tried to hide its desire for the complete destruction of Israel. It is productive because Yassin is the father of suicide bombings of the modern day, and recently stated that it was the duty of Muslim women to give up their lives as well in martyrdom.

Too bad Yassin never was man enough to strap some dynamite to his wheelchair and lead by example. It is also productive because perhaps the biggest terrorist of them all, Yassar Arafat, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in the greatest example to date of affirmative action, might worry that he is next.

As for Yassin being wheelchair bound, it is important to point out that this terrorist has been in a wheelchair since the age of 12, something that never prevented him from rising to the top of the terrorist ash heap.

It also did not prevent Yassin from killing his own brother for fear he might be dealing with moderates in the struggle to destroy Israel. To portray him as a helpless cripple killed while headed for his blue parking space is one more dangerous lie.

There was nothing moderate about Yassin on the subject of Israel. When asked only recently what his goals were, the poor handicapped Sheik said that an Islamic state stretching from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea called Palestine was the only solution.

I guess that puts Israel and its people in a submarine under the Mediterranean. Even Hitler never put his plans for the extermination of Jews in writing, as Hamas has.

Ironically, the man in a wheelchair that we should be reminded about is not the terrorist Yassin but the American Leon Klinghoffer, who was pushed off a cruise ship by the PLO for the crime of being an American Jew. But Jewish blood is cheap in the eyes of the U.N. and the apologists, who will now prattle on about the "cycle of violence in the Middle East."

There is no such thing. That term implies that the violence has moral parity, when the truth is that the only reason Israel must use force is because it is under continuous murderous attack.

America thinks it can go around the world and kill every terrorist we can find who brought us Sept. 11 and plans for even more monstrous acts. I agree that America must and should do that or face them here on our own soil.

However, no one can explain why it is when Israel kills the terrorists that live not a world away but in their own backyard, the world becomes indignant and outraged.

Are we really expected to accept the proposition that Israel should live with the likes of Yassin just miles from the Israeli populace while America flies thousands of miles to remote places in the mountains to kill the same ilk?

Good riddance indeed.

Al Rantel is a radio talk show host on Los Angeles' KABC.