HAMAS PM A LEGITIMATE TARGET

HOPEFULLY ISRAEL WON'T JUST CONFINE HIM TO A COMPOUND IN RAMALLAH LIKE ARAFAT.

Former Shin Bet Chief: Hamas PM Haniyeh a Legitimate Target - Tzadok Yehezkeli (Ynet News)
Former Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter said Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas' choice for Palestinian prime minister, "should praise God twice a day that he is alive." "Israel gave up more than one targeted interception operation against him for fear that innocent civilians would lose their lives." "This man was part of Hamas' murder machine," Dichter says. Haniyeh, third on the IDF's list after Sheikh Yassin and Rantisi, was saved by an Egyptian-brokered truce, to which Hamas agreed.

"I see no situation in which Haniyeh enjoys immunity just because he is the prime minister. In my eyes he was and remains a terrorist, whatever he does." "If there is a terror attack and Israel decides to reply...Haniyeh will be a legitimate target because Hamas cannot carry out an attack without the leadership's consent," Dichter says.