Hamas will continue to send suicide bombers to Israel in defiance of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's renewed call for such attacks to stop and has no fear of an Israeli plan to invade the Gaza Strip, a top Hamas official said Wednesday. Khaled Mashaal, head of Hamas Politburo, said the 2-year-old "intifada and resistance in all its forms including the martyrdom operations" will continue. Mashaal, speaking during a news conference in Damascus, defended suicide operations as "a legitimate right" for the Palestinians people.
Eventually all of them will have exercised their legitimate rights, and there won't be any more Paleostinians...
Arafat, who has been isolated in his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah along with some 200 aides, refused to surrender to the Israeli forces but called for halting suicide attacks.
The Paleos seem to missing the point that this whole exercise is making Yasser look more and more irrelevant. Since the Israelis have been saying that about him all along, guess which side's looking dumber? |