It does not matter what the Israel-bashers now say.



And it does not matter that it is much too little and much too late.



It does not matter that the anti-Semitic scum of the world is already whining that the assassination of the Bloody Sheikh, the genocidal Yassin, was "illegal" and an "obstacle" to peace. Any peace for which the killing of Yassin is an "obstacle" is one that should be prevented at all costs.



It does not matter that Israeli leftists, including Avraham Poraz from the Shinui party, are already denouncing the killing of the sheikh. They would have also no doubt denounced a targeted assassination of Hitler had they been alive in 1943, or the targeted assassination of Haman.



It does not matter that Ariel Sharon's people are already trying to offset the international heat by expounding the new "goodwill gestures" they hope to make to appease Yasser Arafat and his stormtroopers. Gaza is where the injured Samson took his revenge on the barbarians. Gaza was the Biblical military center of the Philistines, and Sharon is officially pledged to recreating a center for Philistine barbarism there.



It does not matter that all those do-gooders and bleeding hearts now caterwauling about Israel's "provocation" have long forgotten that under Oslo it was the legal obligation of the PLO itself to assassinate Sheikh Yassin. It was only in exchange for such an obligation that Yossi Beilin and his sandbox crew promised to turn the West Bank and Gaza over to the PLO in the first place.



It does not matter that even as Arafat is screaming his love for the genocidal sheikh and proclaiming official PLO support for his beloved comrade-in-arms and for Yassin's program of genocide, the Left is denouncing Israel's "act of terrorism".



It does not matter that Ariel Sharon showed cowardice in not also mowing down the Hamas "mourners" marching in the Bloody Sheikh's funeral procession.



It does not matter that the same people screaming how inhumane it was for Israel to kill the mass murderer who happened to be confined to a wheelchair never had anything to say about the Palestinian terrorists tossing Leon Klinghoffer overboard.



It does not matter that the British Foreign Minister thinks assassinating the Nazi sheikh was an awful provocation, but cheered to the skies when the sons of Saddam Hussein were dispatched and their photos splashed on the network screens.



It does not matter that the media will quickly revert to its position that Israel must be prevented from undertaking any action against terrorism besides total capitulation.



It does not matter that this was the first act in well over a decade by Israel that gave some credence to the slogan of "Never Again", a decade otherwise characterized by craven cowardice and appeasement.



It does not matter that the same Bush administration and US media who spent the weekend cheering because they thought the number two Al-Qaida leader had been killed in Pakistan are now suddenly all squeamish about the killing of Arab Islamofascist terrorist leaders in Israel.



It does not matter that the Israeli political establishment is maintaining a blind eye to the open identification with the Hamas and its leaders by so many Israeli Arabs.



It does not even matter that Israeli super-comic Eli Yatzpan, well known for his impression of the Nazi sheikh, will now need to come up with some new material.



It does not matter that Israel's Tenured Traitors are already turning out their Op-Eds for the world's newspapers, who lease their services in order to denounce Israel's "crime".



It does not matter that Yassin should have been killed decades ago and that he would have been vaporized last year had not Ariel Sharon feared using a heavy-enough bomb, one that might have produced "collateral damage".



It does not matter that some Israeli Far-Leftists were already endorsing "negotiations" with the Hamas and so will now declare that Israel has lost a golden opportunity to make peace.



The world politicians and the media may be bewailing this uncharacteristic manifestation of Israeli courage. Let them. For, you see, the very best commentary on the effects of the assassination of this Nazi sheikh is not on the BBC, nor on CNN, nor in the New York Times; the best commentary is Chapter 15 of Exodus:



"The nations have heard of it and are enraged; panic and shuddering have seized the denizens of Philistine Gaza. The leaders of Edom are frightened, while the champions of Moab tremble. And the courage of the pagan Canaanites melts away. Fear and panic have fallen upon them; for Your mighty arm crushes them like a stone, while Your people proceed ahead."