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Could anything be more plain? This is what pro-Palestinian liberals support—genocide.
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Islamic Jihad leader: Israel must be wiped out of existence
Organizers say up to 100,000 people attend largest Islamic Jihad rally in Gaza in several years; Hamas leader calls for unity against Israel.
By Reuters
Tens of thousands of supporters of the militant Islamic Jihad movement rallied in the streets of Gaza on Friday, chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”
Young men and boys wearing white T-shirts with a slogan in the shape of a rifle carried portraits of militants killed in combat, under the black flags of Islamic Jihad.
A Palestinian militant of the Islamic Jihad stands guard during a rally in Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 (AP Photo / Hatem Moussa)
Ramadan Shallah, the group's exiled chief, currently residing in Damascus, sent a recorded message marking the anniversary of the assassination of the group's leader Fathi Shiqaqi in Malta in 1995, by presumed Israeli secret agents.
“Israel will not bring peace to the region, it will only bring war and destruction and therefore, the slogan of all should be that Israel must be wiped out of existence,” said Shallah, who is on a United States wanted list.
Islamic Jihad members at the rally in Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 (AP)
Senior leaders of the ruling Islamist group, Hamas, joined the open-air gathering, the largest for years in honor of Islamic Jihad with up to 100,000 attending according to its organizers.
Hamas allowed the group to use city terrain it usually reserves exclusively for its own rallies, and Hamas forces provided security for the parade by its smaller rival.
A Palestinian woman holds a gun as she attends the Islamic Jihad rally in Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 (AP)
‘Referendum against peace talks’
Islamic Jihad carried out a series of stabbing attacks in the 1980s against Israeli citizens who used to visit the Gaza Strip to purchase cheap goods and later turned to suicide bombings inside Israel.
Its militants continue to harass southern Israel with sporadic rocket and mortar fire from inside Gaza, frequently paying with their lives in swift retaliatory strikes by the Israeli air force.
Islamic Jihad officials said Friday’s turnout was a “referendum by the Palestinian people rejecting peace-making with Israel.”
A young IJ supporter at the rally in Gaza City on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 (Reuters)
Negotiations between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have faltered after Israel’s 10-month freeze of settlement construction expired on September 26.
“The choice of negotiation has reached deadlock, and we are wondering why is there such an insistence by the Palestinian Authority on negotiation with the enemy,” said Shallah.
He urged an end to peace talks and fresh efforts to heal the rift between Abbas’ Fatah movement and the Islamist militants.
Raising hopes that the three-year-old split may be coming to an end, Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya said it was time for unity in the face of Israel.
“There is only the choice of Jihad and nothing else... There is no more room to make bets, on the Americans or anyone else,” said Hayya.
President Abbas, however, rules out any return to violence against Israelis in pursuit of Palestinian statehood. He has said he will pursue diplomatic alternatives should the peace talks with Netanyahu collapse definitively.
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No one will convince me that Mahmoud Abbas didn’t fritter away 9 months of a 10-month building freeze deliberately, hoping to use a limited time-frame to extort concessions from Israel, or at the very least, to use the deadline as a reason to blame Israel for the failure of the talks. Whatever else he may be, he’s not stupid—but he misjudges his opponents—and third parties.
At present, no one seems to remember that the terms of office of both the PA President and the Palestinian Parliament have expired. Neither is the “democratically elected representative of the Palestinian people” at this point, and neither has been since March of this year—yet everyone acts as if they are.
Now turn your attention to this “rally”… Note that the “security guard” is facing the crowd and pointing his weapon at it. This is usually the position of prison guards, whose job it is to keep prisoners in prison. Security guards for an event such as a political rally stationed at the perimeter are facing outwards to guard against external threats to the crowd and speakers. His positioning says a lot about the attitude of Islamic Jihad towards the crowd. Were they literally a “captive audience”?
Nothing happens in the Gaza Strip without the permission of Hamas. This “rally” is not just a declaration of a small organization like the Islamic Jihad, it’s a declaration of Hamas’ intentions, as well. Anyone who thinks differently is living in a dream world.
Please don’t insult anyone’s intelligence with the claim that “it’s the occupation” that causes demonstrations like this. There was no “occupation” in 1920 when Arabs in Palestine rioted through the streets of Jaffa and Jerusalem, crying “Itbah al-Yahud!” (“Slaughter the Jews!). Nor was there any “occupation” when Arabs in Palestine went through the Jewish Quarter of Hebron in 1929, going from house to house murdering, looting and raping to the sound of the same cry—“Itbah al-Yahud!” Can yell me what “occupation” were they protesting in Cordoba (1011), Fez (1033), Grenada (1066) and Fez again (1465) to the sounds of the same shout—“Itbah al-Yahud!”?
The Muslim Arab “problem” with Israel is simple and basic—it is totally unacceptable that ANY ethnic group, no matter who they are, should have the same rights as Muslim Arabs in this part of the world. It is totally unacceptable that ANY ethnic group be anything but second-class citizens under the domination of Muslim Arabs. It wouldn’t matter if they were Bahais, Druse, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus or Jews—the very idea of anyone being equal to them is an “abomination”. After all, didn’t God choose the Arabs to be the recipients of His final word? Even non-Arab Muslims are looked down upon by Arab Muslims as “lesser Muslims”.
This is what our liberal voices would have us believe is a “religion of peace”—but the constant war cry of “Itbah al-Yahud” shows the truth—not “Slaughter the Israelis”, but “Slaughter the Jews”.
If that’s not genocide, what is?
