Sheikh Ahmed Yassin / Ariel Sharon

Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was a political opponent of one of the most brutal illegal occupation regimes in the world. This regime, based on hatred towards the Arabs, assassinated him. His blood and his assassination do not seem to pose a moral problem for Israeli Jews who have brought notorious war criminals to power.

Who are the murderers ? Those who, like the Palestinians, defend themselves or those who expell them from their land and kill them ? Those who violate Palestinian land and airspace with missiles and rockets or a people which rises up against their oppressors ?

After the assassination
(Al-Jazzeera)
Murdering a handicapped person who leaves the place of prayer in a wheel chair is obviously a crime. Sheikh Yassin, however, is not a criminal but a man who called on his people to resist unlawful occupation.

Sheikh Yassin resisted spiritually and that was his honour. Resistance against a military occupying power, including by armed struggle, is an internationally recognized legal right of any occupied people. When Alexandre Adler tells us that Yassin "incarnates the radicalisation of the battle against the West" he serves us an indigestible dish of Israeli propaganda. Alexandre Adler takes care not to mention that Hamas is a popular resistance movement, that Hamas struggles inside a united front of all Palestinian political parties and religious movements in a just combat: To liberate Palestine from Israeli (Zionist) occupation.

Destroying Hamas is like destroying a whole people.

In designating resistance movements such as Hamas as a terrorist organisation, the apologists of Israeli occupation try to let us forget who are the real oppressors and facilitate the dirty work of the occupation forces. When the European Union designated the political wing of the Islamic movement Hamas as a terrorist organisation, it gave Israel the green light for assassinating Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. This is extremely grave.

Instead of facilitating assassinations, Europe should protect the Palestinian people who are doubly victimized: By Israeli machine guns and by Western media disinformation.