By Stan Goodenough
Feb 11, 2008
They urge their followers to lay down their lives for Allah in 'martyrdom' attacks against Jews, but the brave leaders of the "Palestinian" terror groups Hamas and Palestine Islamic Jihad have gone into hiding to save their own skins in the face of threatened IDF retaliation for their cowardly attacks on Israeli civilians.
And from the shadowy recesses where they now skulk in their caves, these killers continue to direct dire warnings in Israel's direction. Hurt our leadership, they said Monday, and we will bring terrible havoc to your people.
"Our response to attacks on Hamas leaders will be unprecedented," a Hamas spokesman said, according to Israel's Army Radio.
Israel is believed to be contemplating targeting these "political" leaders for assassination in a bid to effectively stem the unrelenting rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was overwhelmingly voted prime minister of the Palestinian Authority before his group seized control of Gaza last year, has gone underground to escape Israel's assassination campaign, according to the daily Arab newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi. He has told only those closest to him of his whereabouts.