Israel shouldn’t have killed that Hamas terrorist
I believe that Israel made a grave and irresponsible strategic error by deciding to kill Mr. Jabari. No, Mr. Jabari was not a man of peace; he didn’t believe in peace with Israel and refused to have any direct contact with Israeli leaders and even nonofficials like me. My indirect dealings with Mr. Jabari were handled through my Hamas counterpart, Ghazi Hamad, the deputy foreign minister of Hamas, who had received Mr. Jabari’s authorization to deal directly with me. Since Mr. Jabari took over the military wing of Hamas, the only Israeli who spoke with him directly was Mr. Shalit, who was escorted out of Gaza by Mr. Jabari himself. (It is important to recall that Mr. Jabari not only abducted Mr. Shalit, but he also kept him alive and ensured that he was cared for during his captivity.)
Passing messages between the two sides, I was able to learn firsthand that Mr. Jabari wasn’t just interested in a long-term cease-fire; he was also the person responsible for enforcing previous cease-fire understandings brokered by the Egyptian intelligence agency. Mr. Jabari enforced those cease-fires only after confirming that Israel was prepared to stop its attacks on Gaza. On the morning that he was killed, Mr. Jabari received a draft proposal for an extended cease-fire with Israel, including mechanisms that would verify intentions and ensure compliance. This draft was agreed upon by me and Hamas’s deputy foreign minister, Mr. Hamad, when we met last week in Egypt.
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Kapo Jew. Here’s hoping that Baskin is chewed to death by a rottweiler.
Shy Guy on November 17, 2012 at 3:58 PM
All terrorists deserve to meet their virgins.
Schadenfreude on November 17, 2012 at 3:58 PM
You can’t fix stupid.
RoadRunner on November 17, 2012 at 4:00 PM
(It is important to recall that Mr. Jabari not only abducted Mr. Shalit, but he also kept him alive and ensured that he was cared for during his captivity.)
What a nut! Shalit was half starved and severely malnourished. He was afforded no rights under the stupid GC. Gershon is just another lefty.
Blake on November 17, 2012 at 4:02 PM
Hmm.
*yawn*
Ugly on November 17, 2012 at 4:03 PM
And the problem is?
arnold ziffel on November 17, 2012 at 4:03 PM
“On the morning that he was killed, Mr. Jabari received a draft proposal for an extended cease-fire with Israel, including mechanisms that would verify intentions and ensure compliance. This draft was agreed upon by me and Hamas’s deputy foreign minister, Mr. Hamad, when we met last week in Egypt.”
Along with agreeing to a long-term peace, Jabari was also about to convert to Judaism.
“This draft was agreed upon by me and Hamas’s deputy foreign minister, Mr. Hamad, when we met last week in Egypt.”
Who, precisely, agreed to give Baskin the authority negotiate with Hamas. Certainly not the Israeli government.
Baskin is a nut – it indicates how low the NYT has fallen for them to pretend that Baskin has any credibility.
Realist on November 17, 2012 at 4:04 PM
Family members of the dead terrorits,
He was a good guy.
He helped everyone and everyone loved him.
He had kids and was a good dad, expept for dealing with the girls, he would honor kill them.
He only killed the Jews and American’s because they didn’t come around to the rop type way of thinking.
He will now get his however many virgins and the goat is safe!
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letget on November 17, 2012 at 4:04 PM
^ s/b terrorist
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letget on November 17, 2012 at 4:05 PM
Well, that changes everything…..
BigWyo on November 17, 2012 at 4:10 PM
Yeahwhatever.
Mimzey on November 17, 2012 at 4:14 PM
RWM, you can work wonders with this. Scroll down a tad.
Schadenfreude on November 17, 2012 at 4:14 PM
If he was such a great partner in peace why were approximately 200 rockets fired into Israel in the week or so prior to his untimely demise?
filetandrelease on November 17, 2012 at 4:16 PM
“placed Israel’s peace treaty with Egypt at risk.”
Very funny Mr. Baskin.
growl on November 17, 2012 at 4:22 PM
NYT at rock bottom and still digging…
d1carter on November 17, 2012 at 4:27 PM
Ahmed al-Jabari was Hamas’ Osama bin Laden. AQ has not laid down its arms. Should America not have killed OBL?
They are arguing for Israel to be every bit as captive to Hamas as some in America arguing for the Republicans to become. “Hispanics will never vote for you unless you give them this. Young people will never vote for you unless you give them that.” What they will have is: “Hamas will never stop firing rockets unless Israel gives it Jerusalem or, better yet, commits collective suicide.”
Resist We Much on November 17, 2012 at 4:28 PM
Much the same can be said for Phillip and Nancy Garrido.
Incidentally, Israel doesn’t have a long-term policy of killing Hamas leaders, it has a sporadic practice of doing so until its nerve fails. Again.
PersonFromPorlock on November 17, 2012 at 4:33 PM
The only good Hamas terrorist is a dead Hamas terrorist.
WisCon on November 17, 2012 at 4:37 PM
These terrorist never understand that God is on israels side.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF8ic3ALu04&feature=related
jaboba on November 17, 2012 at 4:37 PM
He’s tooting his own horn for being part of the group of people who negotiated the Israeli soldier Gilat Shalit’s release with the hamas savages.
This flareup was really only waiting to happen. Hamas has been stockpiling longer-range rockets and now even beginning to develop their own pilotless drones, so even without their constant low-level harassment of Southern Israeli population centers with rockets, or with the border attacks on IDF soldiers, this operation needed to be done. A year ago, now, a year from now… the only difference is how much they’ve been able to stockpile and progress technologically.
Last year it would’ve been 10,000 rockets to destroy, today it’s 15,000, next year it’s 20,000… there’s no right answer.
But anyway, if you’re doing something about it, may as well do it to the fullest extent. The fullest extent would of course involve ground troops and a lot of killing of Hamas operatives as opposed to depleting rocket stockpiles and waiting for next year to repeat the same, but the world won’t let that happen.
For what it’s worth, Obama’s been pretty non-obstructive to Israeli efforts so far, and for that I’d like to thank him. And by the way, that Iron Dome anti-rocket system that’s knocking a lot of those hamas rockets out of the sky was developed with the help of US funds that Obama approved. Not to say that a Republican president wouldn’t have approved it too, of course he would have, but Obama didn’t deny it.
I’ve said before he is an Israel supporter with actions but not with words or rhetoric. So far his rhetoric has been ok. Again, thank you for that.
AlexB on November 17, 2012 at 4:53 PM
WTF?
I think a bit more targeted killing is in order for Israel.
I mean, Obama has his “Kill List” … why can’t Israel?
ProfShadow on November 17, 2012 at 5:08 PM
That savage would have been a fly in the ointment during an invasion – he had to go.
OldEnglish on November 17, 2012 at 5:28 PM
Yes, and little Bammie shouldn’t have killed Osama, we should have tried to negotiate with him. That’s the ticket.
slickwillie2001 on November 17, 2012 at 5:57 PM
^THIS
Difficultas_Est_Imperium on November 17, 2012 at 6:12 PM
Gazans had been fired over two hundred rockets into Israel over the past couple of weeks. If anyone thinks that peace was just about bloom, is just not dealing with reality. Israel has every right to defend itself. The leaders of Gaza don’t want peace with Israel. They never have. And, may never want peace until Israel inflicts enough pain on Gazans that they will come to their senses. Meanwhile, they are appear to love war so much that they are happy to live in poverty.
One definition of crazy person is to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.
SC.Charlie on November 17, 2012 at 6:26 PM
We should have cut his head off and taken it back and put on public display, sitting on a stuffed dead pig.
SC.Charlie on November 17, 2012 at 6:34 PM