Hamas: Target Of Retribution: My Last Encounter with Ismail Abu Shanab

When you're one of the few public faces of Hamas and your organization kills Israeli civilians, you've got to know you loom large in the enemy's gunsights. But when I asked Ismail Abu Shanab if that worried him, he merely shrugged. "If you expect me to worry about my life, that is terror," he said on a late-June day just a week after Israel had tried and failed to take out his colleague, Abdel Aziz Rantisi. "I do not pay any attention to this. It's not courage, but we have gotten used to this. Is it clever to come with their...

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