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Kadima MK Tzachi Hanegbi, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Last update - 15:19 05/02/2008 After Dimona attack, senior MK demands assassination of Hamas leaders By Haaretz Service and Reuters Tags: Hamas, Dimona, terror, Israel A senior member of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's party Tuesday urged the government to order the assassination of Hamas political leaders in response to the Monday suicide bombing claimed by the Islamist group. Hamas' armed wing said it was responsible for the bombing that killed an Israeli woman in the southern town of Dimona on Monday, the first such attack claimed by the group since 2004. Hamas called the Dimona bombing retaliation for Israeli raids. The bomber and his accomplice, shot by police before he could detonate an explosives belt, were also killed. Advertisement Kadima party lawmaker Tzachi Hanegbi, chairman of the influential Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said that Hamas had refrained from carrying out attacks in Israel for years and that the bombing marked a change of policy. "Because of this, the Israeli government should also change its policy and we should no longer allow Hamas's leadership to enjoy immunity," Hanegbi told Israel Radio. According to Hanegbi, the group's formal division into separate political/diplomatic and armed wings was a fiction. He said it made no difference whether Hamas figures "wear explosive suits or diplomatic suits." Israel assassinated top Hamas leaders Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi in the Gaza Strip in 2004, killings that Hanegbi said had a "direct effect on the motivation of the Hamas leadership to continue to carry out suicide attacks." The Israeli military has since largely refrained from targeting Hamas's political wing, but has struck against the Islamist movement's field commanders. "(Hamas's political leaders) have evidently forgotten the bitter fate (of Yassin and Rantissi) and therefore we should add the current leaders of the organisation to that list," Hanegbi said. Commenting on Hanegbi's remarks, Taher al-Nono, a spokesman for Gaza-based Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, said: "The threats are part of continuing Israeli terrorism and crimes aimed at achieving political gains. "We will not hide or be frightened by these threats." 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Unwanted praise Hezbollah leader Nasrallah compliments on the Winograd Committee report.   1.   If it were done 12:58  |  Yonatan 05/02/08   2.   Yonatan: possibly 13:23  |  Star of David 05/02/08   3.   Just do it 13:30  |  Vinny 05/02/08   4.   LIKE COWARD Nasrallah they are probably deep in hiding 13:48  |  PETER SM 05/02/08   5.   Stop Talking And Start Doing! 14:29  |  Bill Foonman 05/02/08   6.   1Yonatan,you know what happened to the speaker of those lines 14:38  |  lakshmi 05/02/08   7.   Ismail Haniyeh, said: 14:46  |  akiva (zionist) 05/02/08   8.   can`t anyone read!!! 15:06  |  gil 05/02/08   9.   Hanegbi and the Chickens Coming Home to Roost 15:23  |  Yaakov Sullivan 05/02/08   10.   It`s all so clear from Perth 15:23  |  A Jew 05/02/08   11.   Sounds like a fanatical state 15:55  |  Tim 05/02/08   12.   jew= biggest terrorist 16:07  |  endisrael 05/02/08   13.   10 Yakoov...wrong 16:10  |  uday 05/02/08   14.   of course. better late than never. kill them now. 16:16  |  frenz 05/02/08   15.   What Is The Demographic Make Up Of Gaza? 16:16  |  Eli 05/02/08   16.   Let it be done 16:26  |  If not now, When? 05/02/08   17.   you are targeting the wrong leadership 16:29  |  chaim 05/02/08   18.   uday good luck with your "war" 16:35  |  Yaakov Sullivan 05/02/08   19.   Safety of Israeli citizens 16:40  |  herb glatter 05/02/08   20.   #18 16:58  |  B 05/02/08   21.   13uday,wrong! killing Yassin &Rantisseri,only strengthened Hamas! 16:59  |  lakshmi 05/02/08   22.   it`s a war stupid... (duck and cover is NOT the answer) 17:06  |  jewish doctor 05/02/08   23.   Read the Greek story of the multi-headed dragon 17:14  |  Mark B. 05/02/08   24.   The psychopathic fringe 17:16  |  oliver masterman 05/02/08   25.   Hamas enjoyed immunity? 17:20  |  Ramzi 05/02/08   26.   Just wondering 17:24  |  Noura 05/02/08   27.   Yaakov the liar 17:47  |  Ofer Maimon 05/02/08   28.   B, well, let`s analyse that 17:49  |  Yaakov Sullivan 05/02/08   29.   I wonder what the International communities.. 17:54  |  Deborah 05/02/08   30.   Just another grandstand performance by a korrupt kadima klique... 18:15  |  bat yam 05/02/08   31.   #24, Masterman, what anignorant post!!! 18:26  |  DR 05/02/08   32.   Ofer maimon In Praise of War 18:30  |  Yaakov Sullivan 05/02/08   33.   After the Israeli aggression in 67 18:31  |  John 05/02/08   34.   #2 Star of David - Your analogy is icorrect 18:33  |  Yonatan 05/02/08   35.   #32 To Sullivan the Fake Jew 18:39  |  Yonatan 05/02/08   36.   hamas leaders 18:47  |  Shmuelshachor 05/02/08   37.   Yonathan from KS with more BS 18:49  |  Yaakov Sullivan 05/02/08   38.   #33 John, How Unproductive 19:02  |  Natallie Durson 05/02/08   39.   What fun, another pointless cycle of escalation 19:04  |  Pablo B 05/02/08   40.   Dimona attack 19:06  |  Brod 05/02/08   41.   For Palestinians the world stands on the moral high ground. 19:21  |  Akram Zekaria 05/02/08   42.   Akram Zakaria.....oooooooooooooooh, this one is dangerous 19:29  |  Yaakov Sullivan 05/02/08   43.   Elders of Chelm come to a verdict.. 19:39  |  Hopes is. Hopeless 05/02/08   44.   41# Yaakov Sullivan : A Question with my Answer. 19:54  |  Akram Zekaria 05/02/08   45.   Oliver Masterman 20:00  |  Jake 05/02/08   46.   OK, and then...? 20:20  |  Fortuna Benmayor 05/02/08   47.   22# The Jewish Doctor have the right medicine. 20:36  |  Akram Zekaria 05/02/08   48.   How about a 1 state solution..Israel 20:52  |  Nemesis 05/02/08   49.   only the leaders? rubbish. kill *all* of hamas. 21:02  |  frenz 05/02/08   50.   31 DR the blind liar ! 21:14  |  Sean 05/02/08   51.   chaim said you are targeting the wrong leadership he is correct 22:38  |  gil 05/02/08   52.   Yaakov Sullivan_Akram Was Not Advocating Genocide 23:24  |  Eli 05/02/08   53.   Mr. Hanegbi: Are you that dumb? 19:47  |  Janet 06/02/08   54.   52# Eli. Halla bik. 05:41  |  Akram Zekaria 07/02/08

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