Assasination Politics in the Middle East
Ok, the Subject line is a bit of a stretch, as there's no anon payment, but it is interesting nonetheless. Israel to look into Arafat murder ad Monday, 23 July 2001 12:32 (ET) Israel to look into Arafat murder ad By SAUD ABU RAMADAN GAZA, July 23 (UPI) -- Israel's attorney general on Monday said he would consider opening a criminal investigation into an advertisement that urged anyone who had the opportunity to murder Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the Haaretz newspaper reported. The paper said that a leader of a group called Zo Artzeinu, Moshe Feiglin, and three movement colleagues signed the advertisement, published in the Makor Rishon newspaper by the right-wing group. The ad called on any Israeli to "point your rifle at his (Arafat's) plane when it flies over the Jewish settlement..." The ad also urged members of the Israeli secret service to "open fire immediately at Arafat's convoy whenever driving in the streets of Gaza and the West Bank." Legal officials said they doubted indictments could actually be submitted against either the Zo Artzeinu members or Makor Rishon's editors. Since a tougher anti-incitement law was recently defeated in the Knesset, said the paper, prosecutors lack the legal tools needed to indict the sponsors of the anti-Arafat message. But Member of Knesset Ran Cohen from Meretz Party urged Israel Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein to charge both the Zo Artzeinu members and Makor Rishon's editors. Rubinstein also ordered the Israeli army, the police and the Shin Bet security service to take firm, uncompromising action against "extremist Jewish settlers who harm innocent Arab civilians." Meanwhile, Rubinstein reportedly convened a secret meeting last week with top security officials to consider ways of clamping down on vigilante actions that harm Palestinian civilians, including women and children, said the paper. Officials at the meeting considered various legal steps against extremists, particularly in the Hebron area, such as banning their entry to flashpoints on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Ha'aretz said that no decision had been reached regarding the imposition of such restraining orders on Jewish militants. http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upidetail.cfm?QID=204957
At 05:11 PM 07/23/2001 -0700, Mr. Falun Gong wrote:
Ok, the Subject line is a bit of a stretch, as there's no anon payment, but it is interesting nonetheless.
Israel to look into Arafat murder ad By SAUD ABU RAMADAN
GAZA, July 23 (UPI) -- Israel's attorney general on Monday said he would consider opening a criminal investigation into an advertisement that urged anyone who had the opportunity to murder Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the Haaretz newspaper reported.
I saw a wire-service article the other day that said that Ariel Sharon's government had put out or endorsed a list of radical fanatic extremist Palestinian group leaders who were targets for assassination in revenge for the recent bombings in Israel. Perhaps the article got mangled in translation or I misread it because the train was noisy, but it sure looked that way. It didn't mention Arafat
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