Over at The Command Post, Michelle has posted comments by various world leaders on the execution of HAMAS "spirtual leader" Ahmed Yassin. They're fairly predictable.
Here's another. Ditto.
THE Vatican condemned Israel's killing today of Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin, saying lasting peace could never be reached by a show of force.
"The Holy See joins the international community in deploring this act of violence not justified in any state (run by) the rule of law," said Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls.
The statement said authentic and lasting peace "cannot be the fruit of a simple show of force" but is "above all the fruit of moral and legal action".
Yassin was a mass murderer. He was in Israeli jails twice, and twice he was released, not for good behavior or repentance for his crimes but rather in two rather infamous prisoner swaps -- the first with Ahmed Jibril's PFLP-GC in 1985 and the latter with Jordan as a result of an embarrassing Israeli faux pas in 1997. In both instances, he went immediately back to doing what he did best. Inciting, directing and orchestrating the murder of innocent people.
Authentic and lasting peace can never be achieved so long as the Ahmed Yassins of this world live and breathe. In fact, the last few years have shown us that even artificial and temporary peace can't be achieved without the elimination of the poison spewed by such individuals. He was only one of many, but he was a big one, and while death is never a cause for celebration, the prevention of future death surely is.
You'll find no tears or apologies for his passing here.
