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The Guardian publishes obituary of Hamas terror chieftain killed by IAF
By Haaretz Service
Tags: IDF, Israel, Israel News 

The Guardian, eulogizing a Hamas terrorist commander killed by Israel, branded the fierce supporter of suicide bombings who sent his own son on such a mission as "a man of the street" and "something of a hero."

Nizar Ghayan was killed last Thursday along with his family, and had refused to seek shelter, despite pleas by Hamas leaders who knew his Gaza home was a target for Israeli warjets.

The obituary lauds Ghayan as "one of Hamas's top five decision-makers," and that he had been viewed by many to be more significant than Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh. It says Ghayan, primarily associated with the Hamas military wing, was "highly regarded as an Islamic academic."
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The piece says that Ghayan "strongly advocated" suicide bombings, and states that he sent his son on a suicide mission at the Israeli settlement of Elei Sinai in 2001, where he killed himself and two Israelis.

"We will never recognize Israel," Ghayan is quoted as saying in the paper. "There is nothing called Israel, neither in reality nor in the imagination."

The final line of the obituary reads: "Nizar Rayan, political leader, born 6 March 1959; died 1 January 2009".

Israel's Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Ron Prosor, said he was not surprised by the tone of the obituary.

"This is not the first obituary and it seems it won't be the last that The Guardian grants to Hamas terrorists."

Others recently honored by an obituary in The Guardian include Clash of Civilizations author Samuel Huntington, South African anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman and British Jewish playwright Harold Pinter.
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  1.   Dear Guardian, 20:36  |  ian whitten 05/01/09
  2.   The Guardian does NOT eulogize Nizar Ghayan 20:46  |  Clickfool 05/01/09
  3.   Guardian like the BBC is mentally ill with left-wing disease 20:47  |  SystemF 05/01/09
  4.   Guardian???? 20:48  |  Gerald 05/01/09
  5.   Reading what isn`t there 20:51  |  Don 05/01/09
  6.   #2 clickfool 23:21  |  nemesis 05/01/09
  7.   Guardian normalizes terrorist as "political leader" 23:33  |  D 05/01/09
  8.   The British Council of Cohesion 23:36  |  fiona 05/01/09
  9.   Stupid yes coward no 01:18  |  jojo 06/01/09
  10.   #2 Clickfool is right for once 01:30  |  Meir 06/01/09
  11.   Guardian should have written da Obituaries of London Tube Bombers 01:53  |  Alan 06/01/09
  12.   swine that wrote/printed eulogy would`ve grieved over heydrich. 02:00  |  dante 06/01/09
  13.   Responses to Clickfool 07:09  |  Victor 06/01/09
  14.   #11 07:11  |  bok 06/01/09
  15.   Not Accurate 07:24  |  Paul F. 06/01/09
  16.   dear Guardians 10:19  |  Dooby 12/01/09
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