Hasam Rahman is on CNN right now and has just made the claim that “everyone in the world except the military junta in Israel” has condemned the hit against Yassin. This is news to me, because I haven’t seen the United States come out with an unequivocal condemnation – quite the opposite. Maybe he’s getting his news from Reuters, which has the headline: Muslim Fury, Western Condemnation at Yassin Killing. They also have a stage interpretation of what counts as the Western world:
Israel’s assassination of Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin Monday was greeted with Palestinian vows of revenge, fury in the Islamic world, condemnation in Europe and traces of dissent even in the Israeli cabinet.
Of course, in the-world-the-way-Reuters-wants-it-be, the U.S. really isn’t part of the Western world. And even if the U.S. does have mixed feelings about the Yassin assassination, any more of this…
“Whoever decided to kill Yassin decided to kill hundreds of the Zionists,” the statement said, making reference to Israelis. The group also accused the United States of being complicit in the deadly attack.
“The Zionists cannot have carried out this act without the approval of the U.S. administration, which carries the responsibility for this crime,” the Izzedine al Qassam statement said.
… will take care of those mixed feelings. This quote is off the CNN.com story linked above – on CNN cable they were running this quote as an explicit threat to the United States. I don’t think Hamas actually has the infrastructure to carry out an attack against the U.S. – most of their U.S. presence is limited to CAIR and some shady charities – but it would be a terrible idea for them to try. The U.S. isn’t Spain – attacks tend to bring Americans together.
