Palestinians embrace suicide cult
Apr 29 2002
The Associated Press
Jenin Refugee Camp, West Bank ? Mohammed Badi, 13, says he wants to die young. “Life is not good here. I’ll do an operation,” the seventh-grader said in a matter-of-fact tone.
In today’s Palestinian parlance, an “operation” means a suicide bombing or a gun attack that is certain to end with the assailant’s death. In either case, an eternity in paradise is thought to await the bomber and the gunman...
A poster in the Jenin Refugee Camp in the West Bank glorifies Palestinian suicide bomber Shadi Zakaria. Zakaria killed 15 people and himself in a March 31 suicide attack in Haifa. Suicide bombings have grown so much in appeal and popularity among Palestinians that a cult has evolved around them...
his words illustrate how the appeal of suicide attacks, once the domain of militant Muslim groups, is striking roots throughout Palestinian society and giving rise to a cult complete with rituals.
Secular Palestinians have blown themselves up in the nearly 60 attacks in 19 months. So have women. So have teen-agers.
After each attack, candy is distributed in the streets, and women often greet the news with joyous shrieks. Attackers videotape their final words against a backdrop of assault rifles and banners with Quranic verses. Posters of the bombers and gunmen in Rambo-like poses are plastered on walls.
Palestinians say the bombings are a legitimate weapon in fighting for their independent state. Israel says they’re intolerable acts of terror and hunted down militants in the West Bank this month in its largest military operation in 20 years. At least 20 of the suicide attackers since September 2000 have come from the Jenin area, including the Jenin camp, a militant stronghold. The shantytown of 14,000 was the scene of the deadliest battle during Israel’s three-week military offensive.
70 percent approval
Opinion polls indicate that more than 70 percent of Palestinians support suicide attacks, and experts say the high regard in which the “martyrs” are held in society is shaping the next generation.
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Is violence Palestinian "disease"?-Hamas official
17 Oct 2006
Source: Reuters
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA, Oct 17 (Reuters) - A senior figure in Hamas, the Islamist group that heads the Palestinian government, published an article on Tuesday condemning internal violence and questioning whether it had become a "Palestinian disease".
Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas who also acts as the spokesman for the Hamas-led government, said he was disturbed by growing factionalism in the Palestinian territories, including recent deadly clashes between rival political movements.
"Has violence become a culture implanted in our bodies and our flesh?" he asked in the sharply worded article, published in the widely read Palestinian newspaper al-Ayyam.
"We have surrendered to it until it has become the master and is obeyed everywhere -- in the house, the neighbourhood, the family, the clan, the faction and the university."
It was the second time in recent months that Hamad, who is based in Gaza, had written an opinion piece in al-Ayyam critical of Palestinian in-fighting.
In August, he criticised Palestinian militant groups fighting Israel, saying they were not doing the cause of Palestinian independence any good by launching attacks at moments when it appeared progress was being made.
Dealing in Death
The West is weak because it respects life? Too bad.
By Steven Stalinsky May 24, 2004
... Leading Muslim clerics often refer to the love of death. Chief Palestinian Authority cleric Mufti Sheikh Ikrimeh Sabri stated, "We tell them, in as much as you love life, the Muslim loves death and martyrdom. There is a great difference between he who loves the hereafter and he who loves this world. The Muslim loves death and [strives for] martyrdom." Saudi Sheikh Abd Al-Muhsin Al-Qassem in Al-Madina added: "The Jews preached permissiveness and corruption, as they hid behind false slogans like freedom and equality, humanism and brotherhood... They are cowards in battle... they flee from death and fear fighting... They love life."
Former head of the Al-Azhar Fatwa Committee Sheikh Atiyyah Saqr was asked the following question in an online chat room on March 22, 2004: "What, according to the Koran, are the Jews' main characteristics and qualities?" He explained one of their worst traits: "Cowardice and love for this worldly life are undisputable traits [of the Jews]." Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah revealed in an interview after the recent prisoner swap between Israel and his group: "We have discovered how to hit the Jews where they are the most vulnerable. The Jews love life, so that is what we shall take away from them. We are going to win, because they love life and we love death."
Soldier of Fortune, Volume 27, Omega Group, Limited, 2002. p. 9.
Amid mostly infants in their strollers, children and their grandparents he detonated himself, wounding 13 children. He killed grandmother Ruth and her 18- month-old granddaughter, Sinai.
This is the real face of Palestinian terrorism's father figure, Yasser Arafat and his evil minions..