I’m sure this will usher in a new era of peace:
Israel will try to kill the entire Hamas leadership, striking whenever an opportunity presents itself, a security official said today.
The decision was made secretly by the Israeli Cabinet last week, in response to a double suicide bombing at an Israeli seaport, the official said on condition of anonymity.
By way of Damn Foreigner, I see in one of Billmon’s posts that once upon a time Israel was actually a big financial supporter of Hamas, who it thought would be a useful counterbalance to the PLO. Funny how the wheel turns, isn’t it? Just as the United States once supported Saddam Hussein and the fore-runners of the Afghan Taliban as strategic allies.
Now we’re engaged in political engineering in Iraq. But I’m sure this time it will be different. This time we have “adults” calling the shots, who’ve undoubtedly got the new democratic Iraq all planned out.
Nothing unforeseen will happen this time around, will it?