Japan slams assassination of Rantissi as `thoughtless and unjustifiable`

Haaretz News Ticker ^ | 4/18/2004 | Reuters

[yonif]

Japan slams assassination of Rantissi as `thoughtless and unjustifiable` (Reuters)

[Enduring Freedom]

Yes.

Not including other terrorist leaders to the party is socially inept.

There is still time to get out invitations.

No RSVP required.

[MEG33]

It was a terrific shot,though...;)

[pepperhead]

Yeah it was totally thoughtless and unjustified to kill a man who helped ferment hatred of a whole race people for years. The same man who would find weak minded people and strap bombs to them and send them out to blow up themselves up in hopes of killing as many innocent women and children as possible. Totally thoughtless and unjustified indeed.

[gakrak]

This is the second post I've read this morning condemning Israel. First the EU now Japan. I believe they need to walk in Jewish footsteps before they condemn them. It's funny when it's you or your family that is in the cross-hairs that your mind and heart quickly changes. The US is on the right support path with Israel.

[KeyWest]

The game has changed. The old, unwritten law was that it is OK for a government to kill the unimportant so we important people stay alive and enjoy the good life. No more, and it was not Israel that started it. We did when we made it clear there was no longer anywhere terrorists can hide.

The complaining is coming from the important people who do not like the change. Now they are in the crosshairs.

[tkathy]

If Muslims were in Japan blowing up pizza parlors and school busses, while inciting mob hatred, Japan wouldn't be slamming retaliation as `thoughtless and unjustifiable'.

[dc-zoo]

One thing for sure.. Rantissi is the thoughtless one now. There will be no more threats coming from him.

[G.Mason]

Rantissi assassinated?

First words that come to mind are from Queen ...

" Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone and another one gone
Another one bites the dust, eh"

[Adam36]

Japanese cowards. I'm glad Truman nuked there asses.

[Adam36]

China also condemmed Israel. I love this Chinese statement. They talk like there concerned about human rights. Someone should tell the commies they've killed millions of there own people, who only wanted democracy.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1082260231589

Apr. 18, 2004 10:15
China "strongly condemns" Rantisi strike
By ASSOCIATED PRESS

China on Sunday condemned Israel for killing Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi, saying it was "greatly" worried about spiraling violence in the Middle East.

"China strongly condemns the assassination of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi in an Israeli Defense Forces' security operation," the government said in a statement carried by its Xinhua News Agency. It cited Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan.

Kong also said that "China greatly worries about possible escalation of the existing tension between Israel and Palestine," the agency reported.

China last month voted in favor of a failed U.N. Security Council resolution that sought to condemn Israel for killing Rantisi's predecessor, Sheik Ahmed Yassin. The United States vetoed that measure, saying it didn't mention the militant group's record of bombings and shooting attacks.

Rantisi, appointed Hamas chief in the Gaza Strip after Yassin's killing, was assassinated Saturday in a missile strike on his car.

[JudgeMan]

These are merely international hypocritical posturing. What easier way for Japan to win the terrorist's sympathy .. hoping there'll be no more kidnapping of their nationals! Shameful ... looking at what the nation of samurais has become? The Europeans ... they've sold out to the terrorists long ago. And they're just desperate to seize this opportunity to send this reminder to the terrorists that they hate Israel as much as they do.

[angkor]

I can understand how a governmental group might "condemn" the killings in some sort of weird and elliptic message of international diplomacy.

But it's hard to believe that any normal person in the EU, Japan, or China doesn't see the enormous hypocrisy in so doing, nor understand that Israel is trying to halt the murder of women, children, and innocents by Hamas.

[Solamente]

Kamikazis calling the kettle black!

[G.Mason]

"Japanese cowards. I'm glad Truman nuked their asses."

Don't look now, but most of the world (as has always been the case) is looking for a deep hole to hide in.

That's okay ... with a little luck and intestinal fortitude we'll thin out these genetic misfits to a manageable herd.

[Enduring Freedom]

Perhaps the biggest failure of the Bush administration was the incoherency of its position on Palestinian terrorism.

Hypocritical and shameful, the State Department undermined the integrity of the War on Terrorism by declaring the 'uniqueness' of the terrorism inflicted on Israel.

This week, the failed Powell policy was disemboweled.

AS PER MY PREDICTION AND RECOMMENDATION MANY YEARS AGO, not only would this better idea look better on Bush, it would actually start solving the problem.

[JudgemAll]

Sheesh, ok, now what about Ruby Ridge Nazies or Waco, TX? Hmmm.. what about the illegal cults broken down in Europe and Japan? Hmmmm

[baw0169]

Remember Supreme Truth, cult member Yasuo Hayashi? He was sentenced to Death by a Japanese court for a terror gas attack on the Toyko subway system. Pot meet Kettle.

[G.Mason]

"Perhaps the biggest failure ....... "

I couldn't agree more.

"It's a war against terrorism where ever it is" ... Isn't that what GWB said?

Then we will kill the SOB's where ever they are!

Colin can resign and get another job should he not like it.

Hey Arafat ... you're next.

[Petronski]

Marching him to death through the jungles of Burma would have been okey-dokey, but using a missile? That's savagery.