We are told by some experts that Arabs now have a greater motivation to kill Jews. That’s laughable; Hamas needs no new excuses to go ahead with their depredations anymore than they did in the past when they killed hundreds.
Also ridiculous is the idea that Yassin’s death will undermine America’s war on terror because now moderate Arabs will be less inclined to work against Hamas’s spiritual cousins in Al Qaeda. Americans should stop kidding themselves about there being a difference between the two. The Europeans already understand this and seek to appease both in a vain effort to stay out of the fighting. Americans need to understand that a real war on Islamic terror that grants immunity to Hamas is a sham.
Whatever happens in the coming days, Palestinians should think more clearly about the costs to themselves of their passion for the spilling of Jewish blood that Yassin helped inspire. Let those who would follow his path, including those who seek to murder Americans in the name of Islam, draw the proper conclusions from Yassin’s fate.