Kesher Talk

The legal approach? The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Jul. 23), decrying Israel's aerial bombing of terrorist leader Salah Shehada, wonders why Shehada was not just arrested, like any other criminal:

Israeli officials said they killed Shehada because Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat refused their repeated requests to arrest the Hamas leader. If that is so, why didn't the Israelis try to capture Shehada themselves?

A few days ago, Israel said it planned to put a prominent Palestinian, Marwan Barghouti, on trial in connection with deadly attacks on Israel. Similarly, if Shehada had been arrested and put on trial, a terrorist threat would have been neutralized, innocent people would now be alive and Israel would not be receiving the kind of worldwide scorn that its desperate and lethal attack has generated.

posted by Howard @ 8/01/2002 12:32:41 PM