"Palestinian Authority Television hosts and participants alike are calling the Israeli moves from its towns a 'great victory for Allah'," write PMW's Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook.
PMW cites a Hamas website featuring posters with this "religious victory" theme. One poster shows the laughing face of Hamas founder and arch-terrorist Ahmed Yassin, next to that of a somber religious Jew, with the caption: "Our Koran proves that we were right and your Talmud proves that you were wrong."
Another Hamas poster shows a rifle and the Koran, with the words: "With these two together, the victory has been achieved."
In Jewish tradition, defeat of the Jews by their enemies is considered to be one of the highest forms of Chilul Hashem, a desecration of G-d's Name. The renowned 12th-century commentator Rashi, to Ezekiel 39,7, wrote, "Israel's lowliness is a Chilul Hashem, as 'The nations say of them: These are G-d's people' (Ezek. 36,20), yet He cannot save them.'"
Some Hamas posters ignore the religious theme. One popular poster on Gaza City walls shows a masked gunmen walking atop crumbling Jewish settlements.
PMW cites a Hamas website featuring posters with this "religious victory" theme. One poster shows the laughing face of Hamas founder and arch-terrorist Ahmed Yassin, next to that of a somber religious Jew, with the caption: "Our Koran proves that we were right and your Talmud proves that you were wrong."
Another Hamas poster shows a rifle and the Koran, with the words: "With these two together, the victory has been achieved."
In Jewish tradition, defeat of the Jews by their enemies is considered to be one of the highest forms of Chilul Hashem, a desecration of G-d's Name. The renowned 12th-century commentator Rashi, to Ezekiel 39,7, wrote, "Israel's lowliness is a Chilul Hashem, as 'The nations say of them: These are G-d's people' (Ezek. 36,20), yet He cannot save them.'"
Some Hamas posters ignore the religious theme. One popular poster on Gaza City walls shows a masked gunmen walking atop crumbling Jewish settlements.