Home          Archives           Jerusalem Center Homepage       View the current issue           Jerusalem Center Videos           
Back

Is Hamas Real or a Bad Joke?


(Hurriyet-Turkey) Burak Bekdil - I am not sure if we poor souls can ever understand the jihadists when they say "they love death more than we love life." Hamas' rhetoric stinks of death, nothing but death - indiscriminate death. Be it "our" death or "the enemy's." And it never metamorphosizes into something more humane, something less nihilist. Most recently, in an interview with Today's Zaman, Gaza's Hamas prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, confidently spoke of "fighting the enemy forever." According to Haniyeh, the nearly 200 dead Palestinians - including Palestinian children killed by errant Hamas rockets - proved Hamas' "prowess." The latest war is over. Hamas is happy because the war gave Hamas what it says it loves more than we love life.
2012-12-06 00:00:00
Full Article

Subscribe to
Daily Alert

Name:  
Email:  

Subscribe to Jerusalem Issue Briefs

Name:  
Email: