Israel should have killed Hamas leader in Gaza: party chief

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Agencies: Jerusalem, Dec 09 2012, 10:19 IST

Israel should have taken advantage of exiled Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal's first visit to the Gaza Strip to kill him, opposition MP and Kadima party leader Shaul Mofaz has said.

"We should have taken advantage of the occasion to slice the head off the serpent. Meshaal deserves to die," Mofaz, also a former defence minister, said in a statement yesterday.

"I would recommend that he pack his bags as quickly as possible and get out of Gaza," he added. "If Israel continues to weaken Abu Mazen (Palestinian

president Mahmud Abbas) and does not deal firmly with Hamas, we will soon see Meshaal in Judaea and Samaria," Mofaz said, referring to the Westbank.

In an unprecedented visit to Gaza, Meshaal on yesterday rejected ceding "an inch" of Palestinian territory to Israel or recognising the Jewish state, in a speech to mark the 25th anniversary of the Islamist group's founding.

On September 25, 1997, agents of Israel's Mossad secret service disguised as Canadian tourists bungled an attempt to assassinate Meshaal on a street in Amman by injecting him with poison.

Three attackers took refuge inside the Israeli embassy, but two were captured by Jordanian authorities.

Meshaal fell into a coma and a furious King Hussein demanded that Israel hand over the antidote if it wanted the captured agents to be freed.

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What different is Israel from Nazi

Philip | 09-Dec-2012Reply | Forward

Hamas are not saints and I don't believe that they value the life of Israelis. I personally don't think that they are much better than the Israelis but Israelis are doing far more wrong then Hamas at present. Israel is following apartheid system. They enforce their rules on other people and such threats of killing people just for crossing a border makes one wonder how much better they are than the Nazis whom they were saved from. They don't give value to the lives of people who are a threat to them just as how Nazi did to them. Its a shame!

Hindu

Hindu | 09-Dec-2012Reply | Forward

Israel practices what what we only think in our minds to deal with Islamic fundamentalism. Islam destroys civilisations as Saudi's are proud of mohamed than their Pagan origins. Every muslim in india and pakistan thinks their fore father was some rich shiekh from Arab lands but in reality they have been converted by perversion of rapes and fear.