Minister: Even Haniyeh could be on IDF hit list

[Eugene]

Source: Haaretz

Last update - 13:09 20/05/2007

Minister: Even Haniyeh could be on IDF hit list

By Avi Issacharoff, Amos Harel, and Barak Ravid,
Haaretz Correspondents, and Agencies

Cabinet minister Ze'ev Boim said Sunday that Israel must
strike at Hamas leaders "with all our might," and warned that
even Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh could be on
Israel's list for potential assassination.

"We must strike their leaders with all our might," Boim told
Israel Radio. "There's a list of them from the first of them
to the very last."

"Now, with Hamas saying openly that it is the one who is
firing the Qassams, we must strike at Hamas. There are
people there who are launching them, there are their
commanders there in the armed wing, and there is the
political echelon, there is a prime minister."

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday warned Hamas to cease
the Qassam rocket attacks on southern Israel, or face stronger
Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip.

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[Shaktimaan]

1. Makes sense.

Hey, if it makes any sense for Israel to target anyone at all, shouldn't it be the people who are actually making the decision to fire Qassams?

[bemildred]

2. Another posturing buffoon. nt

[Eugene]

3. New headline at link: Lieberman: Break up Hamas, or we'll break up the gov't

Source: Haaretz

Last update - 16:39 20/05/2007

Lieberman: Break up Hamas, or we'll break up the gov't

By Avi Issacharoff, Amos Harel, and Barak Ravid,
Haaretz Correspondents, and Agencies

Minister for Strategic Threats Avigdor Lieberman, head of the
hawkish Yisrael Beiteinu party, warned his fellow coalition partners
Sunday that if the government failed to dismantle Hamas, the
government itself would be dismantled.

Lieberman spoke as new barrages of Qassam rockets struck the
Negev town of Sderot and the surrounding area.

Israel must launch bold military operations aimed at "dismantling
Hamas totally and absolutely" and creating "an entirely new
situation," Lieberman said.

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Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/861431.html