I hope they kill these ...Four men are now in Israel’s sights. Two – Yasser Arafat and Palestinian intelligence chief Tawfik Tirawi – are under siege in Ramallah.
The other two – Fatah-Tanzim militia chief Marwan Barghouti and Rashid Abu Shbak, deputy to Gaza preventative security chief Mohammed Dahlan – are running for their lives with Israeli intelligence services on their heels.
These manhunts take time. Palestinian bombmaker Yahya Ayyash was not caught in a day, while the world’s most wanted fugitive, al Qaeda’s Osama bin Laden, and his senior lieutenant, the notorious Imad Mughniyeh, continue to elude the most intensive pursuits.
A senior Israeli security source, asking to remain anonymous, told the Washington Post that Israel’s biggest mistake in the past 18 months of the Intifada was to show too much respect for the Palestinian Authority’s top executives. They were awarded VIP passes, weapons, their entrée to the White House, money, territory, an airport, a seaport, health services and jobs.
Israel was repaid with lynching, explosives belts and a widening culture of suicide bombings. |
