OT: Gotta Love the Israelis

Israel warns: free soldier or PM dies
Middle East correspondent Martin Chulov
July 01, 2006
ISRAEL last night threatened to assassinate Palestinian Prime Minister
Ismael Haniyeh if Hamas militants did not release a captured Israeli
soldier unharmed.

The unprecedented warning was delivered to Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas in a letter as Israel debated a deal offered by Hamas to
free Corporal Gilad Shalit.

Hamas's Gaza-based political leaders, including Mr Haniyeh, had already
gone into hiding.

But last night's direct threat to kill Mr Haniyeh, a democratically
elected head of state, sharply raised the stakes.

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