Suddenly I feel like a Hamas high-up, goin’ along, doing my thing and then suddenly… Jonah, yes, I thought (and think) that the killing of ’sheikh’ Yassin was unhelpful to US efforts in the Middle East, but don’t interpret that point of view as meaning that I always think that the elimination of Hamas leaders is a mistake. On the contrary. To take one even more recent example, EU leaders may have complained about the killing of Yassin’s successor, the late Dr. Al-Rantisi, but, for my part, I can see no valid objections to it, legal, moral or political.