Posted on 03/03/2008 10:25:37 AM PST by Crazieman
GAZA (Reuters) - Abu Mohammed picked up his rifle, said farewell to his wife and six children and went out to face the Israeli tanks, helicopter gunships and missile-firing airborne drones.
"Being unable to defeat Israel is no reason to surrender," the Hamas fighter said with a smile as he headed to the Gaza Strip's front line last Saturday, ignoring pleas from his family to stay.
"My children and wife are very dear to me," he said. "But reward in Heaven and the homeland are dearer."
The 38-year-old furniture salesman says he is not afraid to die for the cause of destroying Israel and forging a Palestinian state on all Israel's territory, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
To Israel and its allies, Abu Mohammed and his comrades are Jew-hating terrorists. But Abu Mohammed sees himself on a mission from God to rescue his people from 60 years of misery as refugees since the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948.
Though that conviction may, in some, mingle with bravado and self-interest, it does make Hamas an enemy to be reckoned with, for all that Israel's hi-tech army easily outguns their rifles, home-made rockets and, if they choose, their suicide bomb belts.
After five days of air strikes and ground assaults that it said aimed to halt Hamas rocket fire, Israel pulled out its troops on Monday after appeals from the United States that followed at international outcry at the dozens of civilians among over 100 dead.
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This hatred goes back much further than 60 years. Killing is the very basis of the religion.
Sura (2:191-193) - "And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution of Muslims is worse than slaughter of non-believers...and fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah."
Sura (5:33) - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement"
Sura (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them"
Bukhari (52:177) - Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."
Tabari 7:97 The morning after the murder of Ashraf, the Prophet declared,"Kill any Jew who falls under your power."
Ibn Ishaq: 327 - “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’”
I only got through a couple pargraphs before ralfing.
Jospeh Goebbels could not have done a better job than Al Rueters.
There's your problem right there. There must be about 50 people left of those voluntarily moved from Israel in 1947 in order to help the Arab League kill the Jews. The rest are "refugees" only according to the debased definition of "refugee" used by UNWRA.
” But Abu Mohammed sees himself on a mission from God to rescue his people from 60 years of misery as refugees since the establishment of the Jewish state.”
And in those 60 years, the Palestinians have turned down EVERY OFFER of statehood.
ah yes, nothing like journalistic integrity....you know the impartial view of the truth....
i mean its all over this article....
well the bits i could see on my screen after i puked blood from laughing...
where, in the name of the baby Jesus do they find these people to write this type of fawning BS...
The 800,000 plus Jews expelled from Arab lands after 1948 did not linger in refugee camps. They were accepted and integrated into an emerging society.
Why did the Arabs linger so long in refuge camps? Where were their Arab Brothers?
One needs to look at a map of the Middle East to realize that Israel is but a sliver of land along the Mediterranean Sea.
These “refuges” who for the most part listened to their leaders and left voluntarily while the Jews were supposed to be slaughtered are still not sitting in a homeland? Who is responsible for their fate, after 60 years?
GAZA was given them with no conditions. About 7,000 Jewish settlers were removed from their homes, and look at what the PALIS have turned this piece of their homeland into. Is it not another terrorist camp? I defy any nation on earth to put up with what Israel has with respect to the unending missiles striking Sderot and now Ashkelon.
Nor did the Arabs who remained in Israel, or the 50,000 or so in UNWRA camps within Israel, the refugees assimilated and the camps shut down over a half century ago.
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"My children and wife are very dear to me," he said. "But reward in Heaven and the homeland are dearer."
What do you tell the little wife when you leave, I love you but my virgins are waiting?
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I hope Abu Mo receives his just reward VERY soon. May the piss of Allah be upon him.
Where is all the "hate crimes" legislation that supposedly "protects" Jews elsewhere? In a bizarre inversion, Jews in the Holy Land are considered perfectly legitimate targets by liberals!
This is the bottom line. Not honor. Not face. Not love of family or country. Not obedience to God. Nothing noble. It is sheer personal greed pure and simple, in the form of desire for heavenly rewards.
The god he worships is the Evil One: haSatan. Peace in the world will only happen when all Israel accepts Yah'shua for their salvation. The god he worships is not the Elohim of Abraham.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua
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