Hamas' Doctrine of Hate
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A familiar quality of unreality pervades much of the news and commentary about the ascendance of Hamas in recent Palestinian elections.
Note is endlessly made of the fact that Hamas, with its clinics and other welfare operations, is less "corrupt" than the old-guard Fatah chieftains, providing needed services the Palestinian Authority neglected. And many news stories duly report that the radical Islamic organization specializes in suicide bombing and rejects IsraelÂ’s existence.
But as to why Palestinians en masse are comfortable choosing a leadership engaged in the defamation and murder of innocent Jews -- including children, teenagers and the elderly -- very little is said.
Harold Evans, writing in LondonÂ’s Times several years ago, observed: "Everyone talking about Palestine or terrorism is talking in a vacuum, for nothing can be understood without proper appreciation of the way minds have been poisoned." ("Anti-Semitic Lies and Hate Threaten Us All" June 28, 2002)
He had it exactly right. Without addressing the mind-poisoning, there can be no clear understanding of events. Yet, as throughout the Oslo years of journalistic indifference to Palestinian Authority indoctrination of its people in hatred and rejection of Israel, so too current reporting gives scant attention to the calamitous effects of inculcated Jew-hatred in shaping events related to Hamas and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Islamist group has long made clear the importance of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel indoctrination, which occurs intensively throughout its network of charities, schools, mosques, clinics and summer camps. The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center cites a typical leaflet found in the office of a Hamas "charity committee" in Tulkarm entitled "Jewish hatred of the human race." In it, Jews are described as enemies of Islam and its values and murderers of the prophets. The Hamas Charter itself is anti-Semitic, citing, for instance, the "Nazism" of Jews and blaming them for the world wars as well as the French and communist revolutions.
From earliest childhood, lurid messages demonize Zionists and Jews as evil and extol the joys of martyrdom attained in killing them. Hamas is in the forefront of Palestinian groups exploiting the Internet to disseminate propaganda, with approximately 20 sites in seven languages. A children’s on-line magazine called "Al-Fateh"(www.al-fateh.net) – meaning the conqueror – juxtaposes child-like cartoons and stories with shocking images of violence. Issue number 38 of Al-Fateh, includes a photograph of the decapitated head of a female suicide bomber. The caption reads "Zaynab Abu Salem who carried out the suicide bombing attack. Her head was severed from her pure body and her headscarf remained to decorate her face. Your place is in heaven in the upper sky, Zaynab ... sister [raised to the status of heroic] men." Abu Salem had killed two Israeli border policemen and wounded 17.
Menashe Komemi, 19, who helped support a family in which a disabled father was unemployed, and Mamoya Tahio, 20, an immigrant from Ethiopia, lost their lives trying to protect those around them against the female terrorist.
Terrorism specialist Matthew Levitt writes of a Hamas "incitement machine" in the Winter 2004 Middle East Quarterly, describing, for instance, a kindergarten graduation run by a Hamas charitable association. The event "featured 1600 preschool age children wearing uniforms and carrying pretend rifles. A five-year-old girl reenacted attacks on Israelis by dipping her hands in red paint, mimicking the bloodied hands Palestinians proudly displayed after the lynching of two Israelis in Ramallah."
He describes an Islamic school in which "11-year-old Palestinian student Ahmed states, ‘I will make my body a bomb that will blast the flesh of Zionists, the sons of pigs and monkeys ...I will tear their bodies into little pieces and cause them more pain than they will ever know.’" His classmates shout in response, "God is great" and his teacher adds "May the virgins give you pleasure."
The depth of hatred instilled from a young age is such that mothers push their own sons to suicide-murder. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has translated an interview with Umm Nidal Farhat, a woman whose three sons, raised on incessant hatred, joined Hamas, one of them killing five Israelis before being shot, the others engaging in other anti-Israel actions and killed by Israel. Her own remorseless expression of hatred is chilling – and she was just elected by her fellow Palestinians to the Palestinian legislature. Farhat declares in the interview that even women and "old people" are occupiers and "all means are legitimate" against them.
She says: "I am proud and honored to be a terrorist for the sake of Allah."
Why, one wonders, do so many reporters consistently neglect the mind-poisoning that profoundly affects Palestinian views and actions? Why do American journalists, whose own society promotes acute awareness of the power of stereotypes and insensitive language to damage others, seem impervious to the grotesque demonizing of Jews and Israelis and the deadly toll that hatred continues to take? -
After your stupendous performance with your bigotry views in the other thread (Cartoon of Mohammed), the purpose of your effort with this thread can only be viewed with a large dose of cynicism. .
The unreality is pervasive due to the delusions that you allow to fall on the hollowness of your upper structure. .Originally posted by Salman:A familiar quality of unreality pervades much of the news and commentary about the ascendance of Hamas in recent Palestinian elections.
If you have taken the trouble to visit the various sites of the major news agency, you will find copious amount of commentaries and discussions on the shocking turn of event in the Middle-east that has changed the rules of the game.
Where have you been ? .
Your piece of Harold Evans statement is aptly placed - and to borrow the phrase again :
Note is endlessly made of the fact that Hamas, with its clinics and other welfare operations, is less "corrupt" than the old-guard Fatah chieftains, providing needed services the Palestinian Authority neglected. And many news stories duly report that the radical Islamic organization specializes in suicide bombing and rejects IsraelÂ’s existence.
But as to why Palestinians en masse are comfortable choosing a leadership engaged in the defamation and murder of innocent Jews -- including children, teenagers and the elderly -- very little is said. [/quote]"Note is endlessly made of the fact that Hamas ..... is less 'corrupt' " - one would think that this sentence alone will say all that need to be said to explain "why Palestinians en masse are comfortable choosing a leadership engaged in the defamation and murder of innocent Jews".
What more do you wish to be said ? .
Harold Evans, writing in LondonÂ’s Times several years ago, observed: "Everyone talking about Palestine or terrorism is talking in a vacuum, for nothing can be understood without proper appreciation of the way minds have been poisoned." ("Anti-Semitic Lies and Hate Threaten Us All" June 28, 2002)
He had it exactly right. Without addressing the mind-poisoning, there can be no clear understanding of events. Yet, as throughout the Oslo years of journalistic indifference to Palestinian Authority indoctrination of its people in hatred and rejection of Israel, so too current reporting gives scant attention to the calamitous effects of inculcated Jew-hatred in shaping events related to Hamas and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Islamist group has long made clear the importance of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel indoctrination, which occurs intensively throughout its network of charities, schools, mosques, clinics and summer camps. The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center cites a typical leaflet found in the office of a Hamas "charity committee" in Tulkarm entitled "Jewish hatred of the human race." In it, Jews are described as enemies of Islam and its values and murderers of the prophets. The Hamas Charter itself is anti-Semitic, citing, for instance, the "Nazism" of Jews and blaming them for the world wars as well as the French and communist revolutions.
From earliest childhood, lurid messages demonize Zionists and Jews as evil and extol the joys of martyrdom attained in killing them. Hamas is in the forefront of Palestinian groups exploiting the Internet to disseminate propaganda, with approximately 20 sites in seven languages. A children’s on-line magazine called "Al-Fateh"(www.al-fateh.net) – meaning the conqueror – juxtaposes child-like cartoons and stories with shocking images of violence. Issue number 38 of Al-Fateh, includes a photograph of the decapitated head of a female suicide bomber. The caption reads "Zaynab Abu Salem who carried out the suicide bombing attack. Her head was severed from her pure body and her headscarf remained to decorate her face. Your place is in heaven in the upper sky, Zaynab ... sister [raised to the status of heroic] men." Abu Salem had killed two Israeli border policemen and wounded 17.
The depth of hatred instilled from a young age is such that mothers push their own sons to suicide-murder. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has translated an interview with Umm Nidal Farhat, a woman whose three sons, raised on incessant hatred, joined Hamas, one of them killing five Israelis before being shot, the others engaging in other anti-Israel actions and killed by Israel. Her own remorseless expression of hatred is chilling – and she was just elected by her fellow Palestinians to the Palestinian legislature. Farhat declares in the interview that even women and "old people" are occupiers and "all means are legitimate" against them.
She says: "I am proud and honored to be a terrorist for the sake of Allah."
Why, one wonders, do so many reporters consistently neglect the mind-poisoning that profoundly affects Palestinian views and actions? Why do American journalists, whose own society promotes acute awareness of the power of stereotypes and insensitive language to damage others, seem impervious to the grotesque demonizing of Jews and Israelis and the deadly toll that hatred continues to take?
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"Everyone talking about Palestine or terrorism is talking in a vacuum, for nothing can be understood without proper appreciation of the way minds have been poisoned." With the election of Hamas, a cross-road has been reached, and there are two ways to move.
One way is to move ahead and get Hamas to be true to the responsibility that the Palestinians have bestowed on them; OR continue with their waywardness that will bring them into open and direct conflict with Israel, and giving Israel the legitimate and moral right to wage an ALL OUT WAR to wipe out Hamas from the Palestine.
Whatever has happened in the past, the fact of the matter is that the Palestinians have given Hamas the legitimate right to the seat of government, the world community must place its weight on Hamas to play by the Rules of International Relationship as set out by the U.N.
The State of Israel was also born from the efforts of Jewish Terrorism against the British Colonial Government and also on United Nations Officials - which have experienced murder, kidnapping and death by bombings.
Those events are now "water under the bridge", and Israel has polished away its past image of terrorism, and is now a modern state.
With international guidance, goodwill and assistance, Hamas can also achieve the same outcome that the PLO Fatah Organisation could not acheived.
Do you doubt that this can happen ? Will you change your own attitude towards Muslims and help in the crossing of the road junction ? Or will you set out to poison the minds ? . . -
I was testing you with this thread. You fell for it. Now we know you support terrorism and you are anti Jew.
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Originally posted by Salman:
Would you believe that my response was to draw your continued effort in demonising the Muslims so as to expose your true bigotted self ? .
I was testing you with this thread. You fell for it. Now we know you support terrorism and you are anti Jew.
Your bigotry was quite evident in the "no brainer" attitude which you have displayed towards all those whom you claim as "whiners"; and you certainly showed the intensity of your bigotry towards our Muslim Singaporeans in particular, and the wider Muslim population at large. .
Incidentally, how do you answer to the TWENTY MUSLIMS whom you call as your "friends" ? .
From the manner in which all your posting have been made, I suppose you will classify them as "TERRORISTS" too - since they are Muslims, and happen to be associated with you ? .
Since "Terrorists" are known to be "no brainers" - how should we view your role in this ring that you have associated yourself with ? .
Would it not be true that you have TWENTY FRIENDS who are more likely to be 'TERRORISTS', and with you being a "no brainer" - will you not be a more likely suspect ? .
Be a good PAPpy and roll over, maybe PAPa will forgive your silly, childish transgression. -
Cheers, now we know your hidden doctrinal orientation.
You tell us who you really are. -
Originally posted by Salman:
Why only now ? .
Cheers, now we know your hidden doctrinal orientation.
You tell us who you really are.
Surely your brilliance in delusion would have found out my anti-establishment leanings ? . .
Did you not accuse me of such a position before ? .
Or were you distracted by Sumiko and Diana - both of whom 'sucks' - as you have claimed ? . -
no no .... its not your anti PAP, its your pro terrorism stance.
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Pro-terrorism stance ? .Originally posted by Salman:no no .... its not your anti PAP, its your pro terrorism stance.
Can one believe this "no brainer, one-liner" statement ? .
Was it not said that 'Terrorists' are "no brainers" ? .
I do not recall seeing any response from you concerning your "no brainer" association with your TWENTY friends - whom you claim have "no brains" to ask any questions about their faith - a faith that you associate with Terrorism. .
Why are you associating with anyone from a faith that you claim is associated with Terrorism ? .
It is quite obvious the "Terrorist" in this forum is certainly the "no brainer". . -
Hamas won the election through legitimate means in the form of an election. What can we, as outsiders, comment? Regret that a "terrorist" organisation managed to come to power and will vow to wage war against Israel? Hamas won through the election through voting. So the US and other western countries, who vigorously promote democracy and human rights, have no right to be "disappointed" or "shocked" at Hamas winning the election.
Just like Adolf Hitler winning the election and thus making the Nazi party the ruling party in Germany, he won it legitimately. The real thing to analyse is why do people elect him even though he had already made his intentions felt in his book Mein Kampf?
Just like Hamas winning the election, people should analyse why do the Palestines elect Hamas, instead of trying to find fault with them or to "regret" promoting democracy to the Palestines. -
In the first ever democratic exercise, did Hamas won by a landslide margin ?Originally posted by Erwin_Rommel:Hamas won the election through legitimate means in the form of an election. What can we, as outsiders, comment? Regret that a "terrorist" organisation managed to come to power and will vow to wage war against Israel? Hamas won through the election through voting. So the US and other western countries, who vigorously promote democracy and human rights, have no right to be "disappointed" or "shocked" at Hamas winning the election.
Just like Adolf Hitler winning the election and thus making the Nazi party the ruling party in Germany, he won it legitimately. The real thing to analyse is why do people elect him even though he had already made his intentions felt in his book Mein Kampf?
Just like Hamas winning the election, people should analyse why do the Palestines elect Hamas, instead of trying to find fault with them or to "regret" promoting democracy to the Palestines.
According to the 6 February 2006 Newsweek report:
Although Hamas may have won the election, they will need to review their charter and re-organised themselves to reflect their new political reality.
Hamas received only 45 percent of the popular vote. The nature of the electoral system, which magnified the existing fragmentation of Hamas's opposition, is what gave the Islamist movement the 58 percent of the seats it won. The divided Fatah and four other secular parties won a majority of the popular vote—55 percent—but only 39 percent of the seats. (A handful of independent candidates won the rest.)
Hamas's support in the wider population is even lower.
Three quarters of all Palestinians, including more than 60 percent of Hamas supporters, are willing to support reconciliation between Palestinians and Israelis based on a two-state solution. During the last 10 years, the trend among the Palestinians has been to move away from hard-line attitudes and to embrace moderate ones. Indeed, more than 60 percent of Hamas voters support an immediate return to negotiations with Israel.
As a legitimately elected Government, Hamas will have to renounce all terrorist methods against the State of Israel, failing to do so will mean a declaration of War towards Israel.
Failure to do so, will surely guarantee the Israeli destruction of Hamas. -
You think a leopard can change its spots?
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Speaking from the experience of engaging the carvenous mind of a "no brainer" with the characteristic "one liner" - NO.Originally posted by Salman:You think a leopard can change its spots?
A "no brainer" will always be a "no brainer" - even if he is able to exceed the characteristic "one-liners". .
Very sad. . -
You see, even you don't believe, so why should we?
Hamas got elected on a ticket of terrorism.
Can they do otherwise? Nope. They will have to continue to be terroristic in order to stay in power. -
Are you so desparate for any kind of recognition from anyone ? .Originally posted by Salman:You see, even you don't believe, so why should we?
Hamas got elected on a ticket of terrorism.
Can they do otherwise? Nope. They will have to continue to be terroristic in order to stay in power.
Anything on earth I can believe BUT I cannot believe that in a short moment a "no brainer" can change - with his carvenous space filled with all the "one liners" that can be cooked up.
Did you not read the post already made, or do you simply skip through the replies that others make, and then you "whine" that others run away and do not reply you ? .
No wonder, a "no brainer" will always be a "NO BRAINER" - can we expect more from a carvenous space in your hollow upper structure ? .
For your benefit only, the following is repeated :
According to the 6 February 2006 Newsweek report:
Did Hamas win overwhelming support from the Palestinians ? .
Hamas received only 45 percent of the popular vote. The nature of the electoral system, which magnified the existing fragmentation of Hamas's opposition, is what gave the Islamist movement the 58 percent of the seats it won. The divided Fatah and four other secular parties won a majority of the popular vote—55 percent—but only 39 percent of the seats. (A handful of independent candidates won the rest.)
Hamas's support in the wider population is even lower.
Three quarters of all Palestinians, including more than 60 percent of Hamas supporters, are willing to support reconciliation between Palestinians and Israelis based on a two-state solution. During the last 10 years, the trend among the Palestinians has been to move away from hard-line attitudes and to embrace moderate ones. Indeed, more than 60 percent of Hamas voters support an immediate return to negotiations with Israel.
Those who did vote for Hamas, were disappointed with the other alternative in FATAH, which had the opportunity to bring the Palestinians out of the quagmire with all the International Aid, but unfortunately - FATAH was found to be corrupted and ineffective to deal with the highly insecure environment that the Palestinians live in. .
Hamas had shown itself to be non-corrupt, disciplined, and have the determination to work for the good of the Palestinians, as well as to face down the threats and bullying from Israel. .
Did you manage the words up till this point ? .
If the State of Israel was born out of the efforts of Jewish Terrorism, and became a modern and democratic state, why should you or anyone doubt that Hamas cannot bring the Palestinians out of their wilderness to become a comparable and competitive Palestinian state to be equal to Israel ?
Your anti-Muslim bigotry is nothing more then a display of ignorance and immaturity from a self-conceitt brat, who has no respect towards anyone whose views you cannot accept. . .
Your unique ability with broad brush strokes qualify you as a crude painter, and not even to the status of an amateur artist. .
It is ironic that you dare to defend the interests of Singapore and the Singapore Government a.k.a the Ruling Political Party. .
Be a good PAPpy, and make some effort not to step beyond some unseen OB Markers, or you will be ban by PAPa. .