“Israeli aircraft attacked and killed Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader and founder of Hamas and Israel’s top target, as he was pushed in a wheelchair from morning prayers at a Gaza City mosque early Monday, according to announcements blared over mosques across the city.

…Israeli AH-64 Apache helicopters fired three missiles at Yassin just outside the mosque, killing the partially blind and paralyzed Hamas leader, along with seven other people, including three bodyguards…” —Washington Post Commentators left and right state that this is ‘the end of the peace process’. Pardon me, but what peace process is that? It is arguable that, relative to the Hamas fanatics, Ahmed Yassin was a moderate, restraining their fury, which will henceforth be unbounded. But Sharon has been spoiling for that…