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Hamas, Ahmed Yassin, Abdel Aziz Rantisi
After Yassin assassination, a reshaped table
A reshaped table
GRAHAM USHER
al Ahram Weekly, 1-7 April 2004
The assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin empowered Hamas and the only way to defuse its effect is to accept this, writes Graham Usher from Gaza and Ramallah
"We know Bush is the enemy of God, the enemy of Islam and the enemy of the Muslim people," raged Abdul-Aziz Al- Rantisi, Hamas's new political leader in Gaza. He was speaking on Sunday at a rally at Gaza's Islamic University hours after the US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel's assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin last week. The Arab summit in Tunisia had also just collapsed due to "divisions" over the issue of political reform in the Arab world. Rantisi did not spare Arab leaders the lash of his tongue.
Road map is forgotten at dead end for negotiation
Road map is forgotten at dead end for negotiation
AVI SHLAIM
Observer, 28 March 2004
Israel's assassination of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, marked an extraordinarily dangerous escalation in the conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. There could hardly be a more dramatic demonstration of the disparity in military power between the two parties to this conflict. The trouble is that there is no military solution and there are only losers in this dance of death.
Rantisi named Hamas leader
Rantisi will take Yassin's place in Gaza
SA'ID GHAZALI and DONALD MacINTYRE
Independent, 24 March 2004
Abdel Aziz Rantisi was named yesterday as Hamas chief for the Gaza Strip and immediately repeated the faction's vows of vengeance for the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
Mr Rantisi, 57, a frequent spokesman for Hamas on television, was appointed as the organisation moved swiftly to fill the gaps left by Sheikh Yassin. It designated the exiled Khaled Mashaal, chief of the faction's political bureau, as overall leader.
