Tel Aviv Bombing
(cartoon from Cox & Forkum, 18/4/06)
From JPost Apr. 21, 2006 9:41 Updated Apr. 22, 2006 7:07 by JPOST STAFF AND AP GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip ....
Palestinian Authority Deputy Prime Minister Nasser Sha'arr called on Friday for Palestinian leaders to "moderate" their public statements....Sha'ar emphasized that the accusations made earlier Friday in Damascus by Hamas leader abroad Khaled Mashaal, in which Mashaal reiterated that his government and his organization would never recognize Israel, and claimed there was a "fifth column" in the region working against the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, were Mashaal's own opinions and not Hamas's official position.
...In response to Mashaal's remarks, which followed a Hamas-appointed security chief Jamal Abu Samhadana's assertion that he would not halt his involvement in attacks on Israel, the Fatah revolutionary council published a statement late Friday declaring that "Hamas is trying to incite a civil war."
Samhadana, who is high on Israel's wanted list, was appointed Thursday to lead a new security force comprised of Hamas members. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday vetoed the plan, but it was unclear whether Hamas would honor the veto.
...Abu Samhadana, 43, would not comment on Abbas' veto, but hinted he would ignore it..... ".... I am not going to give up resistance. There is no contradiction between the appointment and resistance. I am a fighter protecting the homeland."
Earlier on Friday, Israeli officials reacted harshly to the appointment of the man currently No. 2 on its wanted list, saying that his new position would not confer him immunity from Israeli security forces. Interior Security Minister Ze'ev Boim said that Israel ... that, sooner or later, security forces would lay their hands on the new official. He told Israel Radio that the appointment indicated that Hamas was turning the Palestinian Authority into a terrorist entity.
Former Mossad chief MK Danny Yatom (Labor) told Army Radio that Samhadana remained a legitimate Israeli target, along with Hamas ministers in the Palestinian cabinet. "I understand that our sights are also trained on Hamas ministers, not only on the police chief," said Yatom. "Nobody who deals with terror can have immunity by any means, even if he holds a ministerial portfolio in the Hamas government." Yatom said that Hamas Cabinet ministers could be the targets of Israeli assassination efforts, including the newly appointed head of the Palestinian security force.
Abu Samhadana is one of the founders of the Popular Resistance Committees, a terrorist group that blew up several Israeli tanks in Gaza and killed three US security guards in a deadly bombing attack on a US diplomatic convoy.
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