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PALESTINIAN SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP: \"BLESSED IS HE WHO KILLS JEWS\"
The Palestinian grudge against Israel is not just a political one, but a religious one as well. So says Director of Palestinian Media Watch Itamar Marcus in his recent report and at a recent oral presentation at Tel Aviv University\'s Jaffe Center for Strategic Studies. In his paper entitled \"Islam\'s Mandatory War Against Jews and Israel,\" Marcus documents Islamic holy leaders declaring Jews to be \"the eternal enemies of Allah,\" and the killing of Jews to be Allah\'s will.
Palestinian Media Watch monitors the Palestinian media and issues regular reports, which can be had by emailing.
\"The Palestinians have redefined the conflict from one over borders, in which compromise may be a solution, into a religious war for Allah in which compromise is heretical,\" Marcus explains.
Religious leaders in the Palestinian Authority who lead Friday services in mosques continuously emphasize the following eight points:
* Jews are the enemy of Allah
* The killing of a Jew is a religious obligation
* All agreements with Israel are temporary in nature
* Islam is fighting a religious war against the Jews
* Palestinians are the vanguard in this war against the Jews, but all of Islam is obligated to assist them
* All the of the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is Islamic trust and any Muslim who relinquishes his land is damned to hell
* Allah will replace Muslims who shirk their duty to fight Israel
* The ultimate destruction of Israel is a certainty
Marcus notes a number of horrifying quotes straight from the mouths of Palestinian Authority religious leaders that make the above points, including the following:
“We the Palestinian nation, our fate from Allah is to be the vanguard in the war against the Jews until the resurrection of the dead, as the prophet Muhammad said: \"‘The resurrection of the dead will not arrive until you will fight the Jews and kill them…\'\"
- - Dr. Muhammed Ibrahim Madi, Palestinian Television, 30 March 2001
“The Jews are the Jews... They are all liars… They are terrorists. Therefore it is necessary to slaughter them and murder them, according to the words of Allah… it is forbidden to have mercy in your hearts for the Jews in any place and in any land. Make war on them any place that you find yourself. Any place that you encounter them, kill them. Kill the Jews and those among the Americans that are like them… The Jews only understand might. Have no mercy on the Jews, murder them everywhere…”
- - The preacher Dr. Ahmed Yousuf Abu Halabiah, a member of the Palestinian Sharianic (Islamic religious law) Rulings Council, and Rector of Advanced Studies, the Islamic University, Palestinian Television, 13 October 2000
\"Blessed is he who fights Jihad in the name of Allah, blessed is he who [goes on] raids in the name of Allah, blessed is he who dons a vest of explosives on himself or on his children and goes in to the depth of the Jews and says: Allahu Akbar, Blessed be Allah. Like the collapse of the building upon the heads of the Jews in their sinful dance-hall, I ask of Allah that we see the Knesset collapsing on the heads of the Jews.\"
- - Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim Madi, Friday Sermon, Palestinian TV, June 8, 2001
“The Day of resurrection will not come without the victory of the believers over the descendants of the monkeys and pigs and with their annihilation.”
- - Sheikh Muhammed Abd Al Hadi La’afi, Responsible for Religious Teaching and Instruction in the Office of the Wakf in the official P.A. newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, 18, May 2001
**Quotes from PA religious leaders regarding territorial compromise:
“We are discussing the current problems and when we speak about Jerusalem it doesn\'t mean that we have forgotten about Hebron or about Jaffa or about Acre….we are speaking about the current problems that have priority at a certain time. It doesn\'t mean that we have given up... We have announced a number of times that from a religious point of view Palestine from the sea to the river is Islamic.”
- - Sheikh Ikrima Sabri - The Palestinian Authority appointed Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine on Palestinian Television, 11 January 2001
“Even if agreements were signed [regarding] Gaza and the West Bank, we will not forget [the currently Israeli cities of] Haifa, Acre, Jaffa, the Galilee Triangle, and the Negev. It is only a question of time…”
- - Dr. Ahmed Abu Halabiah, Palestinian Television, 13 October 2000
“All of the agreements entered into [with Israel] are temporary, until the decree comes from Allah and until the destiny from Allah is realized.”
- - Dr. Muhammed Ibrahim Madi., Palestinian Television, 28 July 2000
“We exaggerate when we say ‘peace’... what we are speaking about is ‘Hudna’, a temporary ceasefire.\"
-- Arab Knesset Member Abdel Maleh Dahamshe, Palestinian Television, 1 September 2000
**What they Teach in School
\"Patriotism in Islam: In Islam, it is not improper for a Muslim to love his homeland. To the contrary, Islam encourages this, and established its defense as an obligatory commandment for every Muslim if even a centimeter of his land is stolen. I, a Palestinian Muslim, love my country Palestine... Islam considers anyone who is killed while defending [the land] a martyr of the highest order...”
- - Islamic Education, sixth grade, Part A, p. 67-68, September 2000
\"...Oh you who are Jews, if you think that you are favored of Allah, to the exclusion of others. Then long for death if you are truthful. But they will never long for it because of the [deeds] their hands have sent before... as for the death from which you flee, that will surely overtake you ...\" - - Reading the Koran, sixth grade PA textbook, p.23
By the time Itamar Marcus sat down at the conference, the attendees were horrified. Arutz-7\'s Ariela Dworetsky, who attended the conference, reported participants asking questions such as, \"In light of these Palestinian goals and truths, how could we ever imagine sharing a lasting peace with them?\" and, \"With incitement like this, do we have to wonder why there are so many Palestinian volunteers ready to kill themselves in suicide attacks?\"
The next speaker, Arab Knesset Member Dr. Ahmed Tibi, was expected to argue against the evidence of hatred and incitement that Marcus had just presented - but instead of refuting it on a logical level, Tibi appealed emotionally on behalf of the \"poor Palestinian refugees who are being ruthlessly murdered by Israeli soldiers.\" However, Tibi soon discovered that after close to a year of post-Camp David violence and killing, there isn\'t much sympathy left for the Arabs even at a public forum in the bastion of the Israeli left - Tel Aviv University. Dr. Tibi was booed repeatedly from start to finish.
PALESTINIAN SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP: \"BLESSED IS HE WHO KILLS JEWS\"
The Palestinian grudge against Israel is not just a political one, but a religious one as well. So says Director of Palestinian Media Watch Itamar Marcus in his recent report and at a recent oral presentation at Tel Aviv University\'s Jaffe Center for Strategic Studies. In his paper entitled \"Islam\'s Mandatory War Against Jews and Israel,\" Marcus documents Islamic holy leaders declaring Jews to be \"the eternal enemies of Allah,\" and the killing of Jews to be Allah\'s will.
Palestinian Media Watch monitors the Palestinian media and issues regular reports, which can be had by emailing
\"The Palestinians have redefined the conflict from one over borders, in which compromise may be a solution, into a religious war for Allah in which compromise is heretical,\" Marcus explains.
Religious leaders in the Palestinian Authority who lead Friday services in mosques continuously emphasize the following eight points:
* Jews are the enemy of Allah
* The killing of a Jew is a religious obligation
* All agreements with Israel are temporary in nature
* Islam is fighting a religious war against the Jews
* Palestinians are the vanguard in this war against the Jews, but all of Islam is obligated to assist them
* All the of the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is Islamic trust and any Muslim who relinquishes his land is damned to hell
* Allah will replace Muslims who shirk their duty to fight Israel
* The ultimate destruction of Israel is a certainty
Marcus notes a number of horrifying quotes straight from the mouths of Palestinian Authority religious leaders that make the above points, including the following:
“We the Palestinian nation, our fate from Allah is to be the vanguard in the war against the Jews until the resurrection of the dead, as the prophet Muhammad said: \"‘The resurrection of the dead will not arrive until you will fight the Jews and kill them…\'\"
- - Dr. Muhammed Ibrahim Madi, Palestinian Television, 30 March 2001
“The Jews are the Jews... They are all liars… They are terrorists. Therefore it is necessary to slaughter them and murder them, according to the words of Allah… it is forbidden to have mercy in your hearts for the Jews in any place and in any land. Make war on them any place that you find yourself. Any place that you encounter them, kill them. Kill the Jews and those among the Americans that are like them… The Jews only understand might. Have no mercy on the Jews, murder them everywhere…”
- - The preacher Dr. Ahmed Yousuf Abu Halabiah, a member of the Palestinian Sharianic (Islamic religious law) Rulings Council, and Rector of Advanced Studies, the Islamic University, Palestinian Television, 13 October 2000
\"Blessed is he who fights Jihad in the name of Allah, blessed is he who [goes on] raids in the name of Allah, blessed is he who dons a vest of explosives on himself or on his children and goes in to the depth of the Jews and says: Allahu Akbar, Blessed be Allah. Like the collapse of the building upon the heads of the Jews in their sinful dance-hall, I ask of Allah that we see the Knesset collapsing on the heads of the Jews.\"
- - Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim Madi, Friday Sermon, Palestinian TV, June 8, 2001
“The Day of resurrection will not come without the victory of the believers over the descendants of the monkeys and pigs and with their annihilation.”
- - Sheikh Muhammed Abd Al Hadi La’afi, Responsible for Religious Teaching and Instruction in the Office of the Wakf in the official P.A. newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, 18, May 2001
**Quotes from PA religious leaders regarding territorial compromise:
“We are discussing the current problems and when we speak about Jerusalem it doesn\'t mean that we have forgotten about Hebron or about Jaffa or about Acre….we are speaking about the current problems that have priority at a certain time. It doesn\'t mean that we have given up... We have announced a number of times that from a religious point of view Palestine from the sea to the river is Islamic.”
- - Sheikh Ikrima Sabri - The Palestinian Authority appointed Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine on Palestinian Television, 11 January 2001
“Even if agreements were signed [regarding] Gaza and the West Bank, we will not forget [the currently Israeli cities of] Haifa, Acre, Jaffa, the Galilee Triangle, and the Negev. It is only a question of time…”
- - Dr. Ahmed Abu Halabiah, Palestinian Television, 13 October 2000
“All of the agreements entered into [with Israel] are temporary, until the decree comes from Allah and until the destiny from Allah is realized.”
- - Dr. Muhammed Ibrahim Madi., Palestinian Television, 28 July 2000
“We exaggerate when we say ‘peace’... what we are speaking about is ‘Hudna’, a temporary ceasefire.\"
-- Arab Knesset Member Abdel Maleh Dahamshe, Palestinian Television, 1 September 2000
**What they Teach in School
\"Patriotism in Islam: In Islam, it is not improper for a Muslim to love his homeland. To the contrary, Islam encourages this, and established its defense as an obligatory commandment for every Muslim if even a centimeter of his land is stolen. I, a Palestinian Muslim, love my country Palestine... Islam considers anyone who is killed while defending [the land] a martyr of the highest order...”
- - Islamic Education, sixth grade, Part A, p. 67-68, September 2000
\"...Oh you who are Jews, if you think that you are favored of Allah, to the exclusion of others. Then long for death if you are truthful. But they will never long for it because of the [deeds] their hands have sent before... as for the death from which you flee, that will surely overtake you ...\" - - Reading the Koran, sixth grade PA textbook, p.23
By the time Itamar Marcus sat down at the conference, the attendees were horrified. Arutz-7\'s Ariela Dworetsky, who attended the conference, reported participants asking questions such as, \"In light of these Palestinian goals and truths, how could we ever imagine sharing a lasting peace with them?\" and, \"With incitement like this, do we have to wonder why there are so many Palestinian volunteers ready to kill themselves in suicide attacks?\"
The next speaker, Arab Knesset Member Dr. Ahmed Tibi, was expected to argue against the evidence of hatred and incitement that Marcus had just presented - but instead of refuting it on a logical level, Tibi appealed emotionally on behalf of the \"poor Palestinian refugees who are being ruthlessly murdered by Israeli soldiers.\" However, Tibi soon discovered that after close to a year of post-Camp David violence and killing, there isn\'t much sympathy left for the Arabs even at a public forum in the bastion of the Israeli left - Tel Aviv University. Dr. Tibi was booed repeatedly from start to finish.