Rats Leave Hole, Die
The foul murderers who have been hiding behind Arafat's skirts for the last couple of years [you're making cross-dressing jokes now? -- ed it's a metaphor... I don't think tigers wear skirts] are finding that sunlight can be uncomfortable:
A senior Fatah member who until recently was among scores of fugitives hiding out in Yasser Arafat's Mukata compound was among four armed men killed in the West Bank and Gaza on Sunday. Muhammad Ghassan Sheikh was killed, along with two of his aides, by an elite police unit while in a car in Beituniya, west of Ramallah, on Sunday evening... During the two years that he was holed up in the Mukata, Sheikh planned suicide bombings and maintained contact with terror cells in the West Bank... Sheikh was also involved in a shooting on a road between Na'ame and Talmon on June 13 in which a man was killed and two others were wounded. In 2002, Sheikh helped plan a suicide bombing in Jerusalem and recruited his cousin to lead the suicide bomber from Samaria to Jerusalem.
Saint Augustine of Hippo, watching the decadent life-style of the late Empire, penned a famous prayer: "Give me chastity and continence; but not too soon." Similarly, Arafat's death has thrust the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into uncharted terrain. It's certainly well past time for the war that he incited to end. Some time after that, the long process of healing can begin. But not too soon: there are still some things that need to be cleaned up. Israeli police and army forces have a long memory. I fervently hope that they also have a very detailed list.
A senior Fatah member who until recently was among scores of fugitives hiding out in Yasser Arafat's Mukata compound was among four armed men killed in the West Bank and Gaza on Sunday. Muhammad Ghassan Sheikh was killed, along with two of his aides, by an elite police unit while in a car in Beituniya, west of Ramallah, on Sunday evening... During the two years that he was holed up in the Mukata, Sheikh planned suicide bombings and maintained contact with terror cells in the West Bank... Sheikh was also involved in a shooting on a road between Na'ame and Talmon on June 13 in which a man was killed and two others were wounded. In 2002, Sheikh helped plan a suicide bombing in Jerusalem and recruited his cousin to lead the suicide bomber from Samaria to Jerusalem.
Saint Augustine of Hippo, watching the decadent life-style of the late Empire, penned a famous prayer: "Give me chastity and continence; but not too soon." Similarly, Arafat's death has thrust the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into uncharted terrain. It's certainly well past time for the war that he incited to end. Some time after that, the long process of healing can begin. But not too soon: there are still some things that need to be cleaned up. Israeli police and army forces have a long memory. I fervently hope that they also have a very detailed list.
