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Friday, June 07, 2013

Hamas says how horrible it was to co-exist with Jews

I just came across this article on the Hamas interior ministry website, originally published in Hamas newspaper Felesteen.
When I was a little kid in the seventies we would attend demonstrations on the occasion of Land Day, or the anniversary of the Nakba, and I would hear people shouting: "Khyber Khyber O Jews, Muhammad's Army will be back." At the time we heard this chanting, Palestine was far from Islam. Women wore scandalous short clothes, and grocery stores sold liquor in public, and the Jews were coming every Saturday shopping at our markets and walking safely in our streets.  The Jewish employers would share their happy occasions with  their Palestinian workers, dancing with them and drinking liquor and beer at weddings together. The ideas that were prevalent at the time were closer to Kafr (heresy) than to the faith, such as: Arab nationalism, communism and secularism. Even so, the chants could be heard throughout Palestine: "Khyber Khyber O Jews, Muhammad's Army will be back."
After discussing the history of the massacre of Jews in Khyber, the author says that the Arab Spring Islamic revolutions were sparked by Hamas in Gaza, and he has no doubt that soon we will hear all Arab nations chanting ""Khyber Khyber O Jews, Muhammad's Army will be back."

Anyone who still thinks that Hamas' goals are anything but genocidal needs to read this. Again and again.