Israel will surely go on killing terrorist chieftains of whatever scope, he said to a Moscow roundtable on Mideastern developments.
"Palestinian leaders were dying thirty and forty years ago, too. Loud statements were made on their assassinations-but it's all gone and forgotten. Yassin was sending others to kill civilians. He has paid with his own life now," snapped the expert.
Geidar Jemal, Russian Islamic Committee president and another roundtable speaker, is of a contrasting opinion. He expects the Sheikh Yassin assassination to send Mideastern violence escalating on. The Sheikh was killed in a bad crisis which "US politicians had helped to spread throughout the Middle East", he said.
An Israeli helicopter missile hit Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in Gaza, March 22.
