COWARDLY HAMAS LION ROARS
FROM HIS PROTECTED CAVE IN SYRIA,
AS PALESTINIAN CIVILIAN’S BLOOD IS SHED
IN THE GAZA STRIP TO HIS SHOUTS OF BRAVADO!
MAYBE THE WIZARD OF IRAN WILL GIVE HIM A HEART!
March 1, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Begin Associated Press Article
Hamas leader: IDF operations in Gaza
– ‘the real holocaust’
Politburo chief Khaled Mashaal lashes out at Israeli operations in Gaza, likens the fighting to Holocaust. Palestinian report 37 fatalities since IDF op began; militants fire 46 rockets at southern Israel over weekend.
Associated Press
Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal denounced Israeli attacks against civilians in the Gaza strip on Saturday, describing it as “the real holocaust.”
Forty-three Gazans, at least half of them civilians, have died in pitched battles between Israeli troops and Palestinian rocket squads that began Wednesday and escalated sharply on Saturday.
West Bank leaders have threatened to suspend peace talks to protest the Israeli attacks, which came as Gaza militants bombarded southern Israel with dozens of rockets and mortars.
“Israeli actions in Gaza since Wednesday is the real holocaust,” Mashaal told reporters in Damascus, where he lives in exile.
He accused Israel of “exaggerating the holocaust and using it to blackmail the world.”
“Israel wants
to exaggerate the holocaust and make from it a tragedy such that no other can have their own tragedy,” he said. “The Palestinian people are the victims and Israel is the hangman and killer.”
Seeking martyrdom
If IDF forces launch a Gaza incursion, warned Mashaal, all Gazans will confront them: “I have only this to say to the terrorists leading the enemy – Olmert, Barak and the rest of you – decide what ever your want. Should you be stupid enough to enter Gaza – we will fight you… not only will you face thousands of warriors, you will have a million and a half people ready to fight you, ready to die as martyrs,” he said.
“With all your weapons you are still cowards… we know you well. You have your equipment to thank for your might. We do not ridicule that, but you use the US, you use the weakness of the Arab nations. This will not last for much longer.
We will defeat you eventually,” he added.
“I wish I could be in Gaza right now. I wish my four sons could fight and seek martyrdom… why this escalation? We have forgotten the truth – the enemy is always looking for excuses to engage in war.
“Israel is undoubtedly after all leaders, not just those of Hamas,” he continued. “Israel will go after Hamas, Jihad, Fatah – everybody. Everyone is in their sights because they are Palestinians.”
He also lashed out at Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, accusing him of “providing a cover for the Israeli holocaust” in Gaza by claiming that Hamas militants were sheltering al-Qaeda terrorists.
He also blamed some European countries, without naming them, for keeping silent on Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians: “It is shameful that some Western countries try to clear their conscience with regards to the Holocaust that took place on their own land by being silent on the real Holocaust being committed by Israel against the Palestinian people,” he said.
Mashaal’s multiple references to the Holocaust appeared to be a reaction to a statement Friday by Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai who told Israeli Army Radio that Israel had “no other choice” but to launch a massive military operation in Gaza.
Vilnai said the Palestinians would be “bringing upon themselves a greater ‘shoah’ because we will use all our strength in every way we deem appropriate, whether in airstrikes or on the ground.”
The Hebrew word “Shoah” Most often refers to the Holocaust but Israelis use it to describe all sorts of disasters
.
Vilnai spokesman Eitan Ginzburg said the deputy defense minister never intended it as a reference to the Holocaust but used the word “Shoah” to denote a disaster. Mashaal warned Israel against the “folly” of invading Gaza, saying Israeli soldiers would be defeated by Palestinians who “will fight like lions.”
The Hamas leader called on Arabs and Muslims worldwide to “go back to the streets in the East and West … To tell the world that ‘we will not stay silent in the face of this Holocaust’.
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