Sofia wrote:Bush can't go to the bathroom without something being blamed on him when he comes back.
He's like, ".....what?"
I'm sure everything can be blamed on him somehow. It's almost like the hatred we see in the Palestinians. Here's the latest development in their horror story...
Hamas leader Rantisi killed in IAF strike in Gaza City
By Amos Harel, Yoav Stern and Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondents, and Agencies
The Hamas leadership has appointed a new chief to replace the organization's assassinated leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi, Israel Radio quoted the Al Manar television station as saying Sunday. However, according to the report, the new leader's name will not be revealed.
The head of the Hamas politburo Khaled Mashaal called from Damascus on the organization to appoint an heir to Rantisi immediately, but to avoid revealing his name, fearing another assassination, the radio said.
Hours after the Hamas leader was killed in an Israeli helicopter missile strike on his car Saturday evening in Gaza City, Hamas's armed wing issued a statement vowing "100 retaliations" that will shake "the criminal entity".
Two other people - Rantisi's driver and one of his bodyguards - were also killed in the strike.
The White House early Sunday declined to criticize the strike, saying instead that Israel "has the right to defend itself from terrorist attacks" and urging restraint in the region.
Rantisi was one of the Hamas leaders at the top of Israel's target list, after the assassination last month of Hamas founder and leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
Hamas on Saturday vowed revenge for the assassination and said it would not be deterred in its struggle to destroy the Jewish state.
"Israel will regret this. Revenge is coming," said a senior Hamas leader at the Gaza hospital where Rantisi was pronounced dead.
"This blood will not be wasted. It is our fate in Hamas and it is our fate as Palestinians to die as martyrs. The battle will not weaken our determination or break our will," Ismail Haniya told reporters.
The missile attack took place a block from Rantisi's house in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City. The dead were identified as bodyguard Akram Nissar and driver Ahmed El-Rara.
Rantisi's wife was also in the car, but her condition and location was not known, hospital sources and Hamas officials said.
Rantisi was taken to Gaza's Shifa Hospital in critical condition, his body pocked with bloody wounds, and rushed into emergency surgery, but he died five minutes after arriving at the hospital.
About 2,000 angry Palestinians marched through the streets carrying pieces of Rantisi's car shouting, "revenge, revenge." Shooting was heard in the center of Gaza City and people were chanting Rantisi's name.
The attack came several hours after a Border Policeman was killed and three other Israelis were wounded in a suicide bombing at the Erez Crossing in Gaza, which Hamas jointly claimed with the military wing of Fatah.
Rantisi was the newly-appointed head of the militant group in Gaza, following Yassin's assassination. He was one of the most hardline members of the militant movement, which rejects all compromise with Israel and calls for the destruction of the Jewish state.
Israel had previously tried to kill Rantisi on June 10 last year, when three Apache helicopters fired at least seven missiles toward his car in a crowded Gaza thoroughfare, reducing his vehicle to a scorched heap of metal. Rantisi escaped with a wound to the right leg. Two Palestinian bystanders were killed.
During the mourning period for Yassin, Rantisi was defiant about Israel's threats against him. "We will all die one day. Nothing will change. If by Apache or by cardiac arrest, I prefer Apache," he said.
Thousands of Palestinians poured into the streets of Gaza to protest the assassination and Hamas leaders vowed revenge. "This blood will not be wasted. It is our fate in Hamas and it is our fate as Palestinians to die as martyrs. The battle will not weaken our determination or break our will," Hamas official Ismail Haniya told reporters.
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia pointed a finger of blame at the U.S. "The Palestinian cabinet considers this terrorist Israeli campaign is a direct result of American encouragement and the complete bias of the American administration towards the Israeli government," he said.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Jonathan Peled said, "Israel... today struck a mastermind of terrorism, with blood on his hands."
"We have to continue this war, every time and every place. And this story with Rantisi shows how the army can get everywhere. We have to continue, we have no other choice," said Cabinet Minister Gideon Ezra.
Rantisi was born in 1947 in the village of Yavna near the southern coastal city of Ashkelon. During the War of Independence his family fled their home and settled in the Khan Yunis refugee camp. Rantisi, who attended school at the refugee camp, had 11 sisters and brothers. After completing his high school studies, he went on to study medicine in Egypt.
Rantisi returned to the Gaza Strip during the 1970s and worked as a pediatrician at the Naser Hospital in Khan Yunis.
The IDF first arrested Rantisi in 1983, for attempting to organize a boycott of tax payments to the Israeli civil administration authorities. He was arrested a second time in 1988, and was jailed for two and a half years for his involvement in Hamas.
Rantisi was placed in administrative detention in 1990, and was included in the 400 Hamas members who were deported to Lebanon in December of 1992.
Upon his return to the Strip, Rantisi was arrested numerous times by the Palestinian Authority. Recent attempts to arrest him were foiled by armed Hamas activists.
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