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2007-08-22 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Gaza: Senior Hamas operative dies in IAF airstrike

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Posted by Fred 2007-08-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Hamas

#1 The newish thing here was that two kids (grade school age)were killed when they were retrieving the qassan launcher. The IDF didn't know their ages obviously.

This puts Hamas in an interesting position. They would like to start a propaganda offensive against the Israelis as child killers (all their agents in the US and Europe are queued up raring to go). However, to do would result in more widespread knowledge that they use kids to aid the terrorist actions.

Posted by mhw 2007-08-22 07:23|| 2007-08-22 07:23|| Front Page Top

#2 mhw:

This is not a difficult position for Hamas. They know the media will only pick up on the "children killed" aspect of the story and will ignore the "retrieving qassam launcher" part.

Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan 2007-08-22 08:06|| 2007-08-22 08:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Planet Dan

That might have been true a year ago. However, Hamas has made a number of enemies since then. In fact, since the incident in question, there haven't been any "Jews killing children" demos in Egypt, etc. Even Iran, which nominally supports Hamas, hasn't mentioned it yet.

Posted by mhw 2007-08-22 09:37|| 2007-08-22 09:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Give him time, mhw. Ahmadinijad is still trying to convince us furriners that Iran's *the place* to invest your money. He'll get to the blaming Joos tomorrow, I'd bet.

Posted by BA 2007-08-22 20:13|| 2007-08-22 20:13|| Front Page Top

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