Yediot Aharonot looks at the question: What if the elimination of Osama bin-Laden was carried out by the IDF
and not by the US armed forces. „Would there not be an immediate outcry – murder without trial? Is it possible, in such a sensitive situation, to allow the army to investigate itself? How was it decided to throw his body to sea without first consulting with his family? The author also notes that „On such a critical issue, it is impossible to avoid a petition to the High Court of Justice, which is on record for having dealt with the issue of targeted assassinations and has written a learned opinion on the matter.”
Ma’ariv opines that „US President Barack Obama is the big winner this week. Within three days he presented his birth certificate, as well as the death certificate of his biggest enemy. Although it is impossible to say that the world is a safer place this morning, after the elimination of Osama bin Laden, when every wolf and leper will try to perpetrate a juicy revenge attack. But on the other hand, the world this morning is a better world.”
Yisrael Hayom argues that „The leaders of the Arab world responded cautiously to the elimination [of Osama bin-Laden]. The general Arab population, paradoxically, has expressed empathy to the leader who brought about the miracle of the struggle against the West. The only one who dared to say exactly what he thinks was Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh who mourned the assassination of the fighter of Jihad by the Americans, the enemies of Arabs and Islam.”
The Jerusalem Post states that “while it is clear to most people that the downfall of a mastermind of terrorism is a cause for celebration, similar common sense is not being universally applied to the rise of another terrorist force, Hamas,” and wonders at the outlook some senior world leaders who apparently “believe that Fatah’s alliance with the Israel-loathing Hamas might somehow serve the cause of peace,” despite the fact that Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip, had no compunction about calling bin Laden a martyr and his killers criminals. The editor points out that “Hamas’s predictably despicable reto bin Laden’s death is yet another reminder to those countries that value freedom and denounce terrorism that the global terror chieftain and the Palestinian terrorist movement fall into the same category,” and adds: “How ironic and how tragic that, even as millions in nations around the world spontaneously celebrate the death of one of history’s most evil terror masterminds, another toxic terrorist network is being afforded growing legitimacy in some of the very same nations.”
Haaretz states that if, as a result on the successful elimination of Osama Bin Laden by US forces, “Obama becomes stronger domestically, that could – and should – drive his administration to make a more aggressive effort to bring peace to the Middle East. If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have yet to internalize that, it would be best for them to hear it directly from Obama.”
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