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JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Nizar Rayyan of Hamas on God’s Hatred of Jews….
Instapundit —
JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Nizar Rayyan of Hamas on God’s Hatred of Jews.
"An Offense Against God"
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
The late Nizzar Rayyan on Israel. Goldblog: The question I wrestle with
constantly is whether Hamas is truly, theologically implacable. That is
to say, whether the organization can remain true to its understanding
of Islamic law and God's word and yet enter into a long-term
non-aggression treaty with Israel. I tend to think not, though I've
noticed over the years a certain plasticity of belief among some Hamas
ideologues. Also, this is the Middle East, so anything is possible. I suspect that's the correct level of expectation. ...
Gaza and the Law of Armed Conflict
Winds of Change.NET —
... Proportion, as defined by Beehner and the Hague Conventions, is impossible between Israel and Hamas. The Israel Defense Forces are more professional, competent and technologically advanced than Hamas and will inflict greater damage as a matter of course. And Hamas’s war aim is entirely out of proportion to Israel’s. Israel wants to halt the incoming rocket fire, while Hamas seeks the destruction or evacuation of Israel. ...
What Has Israel Done to Earn Such Hate from the West?
The Sundries Shack —
... rockets indiscriminately down on any other nation in such quantity for so long? Make no mistake, these rockets have no certain target. Hamas is not trying to hit an Israeli military installation. They are lighting off rockets certain to land somewhere in Israel and Hamas could care less whether they blow up a tank or a playground. This is acceptable behavior to the Palestinians and the world. A top Hamas leader, before he was blown up by a targeted Israeli missile, says that “Israel is impossible” and Jews “are a cursed people” and spend his life trying to kill every ...
Nizar Rayyan: no peace with Israel possible
Israpundit —
Jeffery Goldberg recalls his interview of Rayyan who was just killed by the IDF
[..] There was no flexibility with Rayyan. This is what he said when I asked him if he could envision a 50-year hudna (or cease-fire) with Israel:
“The only reason to have a hudna is to prepare yourself for the final battle. We don’t need 50 years to prepare ourselves for the final battle with Israel. There is no chance that true Islam would ever allow a Jewish state to survive in the Muslim Middle East. Israel is an impossibility. It is an offense against ...
Which Side Supports Genocide?
Rhymes With Right —
... advocates of moral equivalence take to agree with him. But on the other hand, Zahar has indicated that Hamas will consider a ceasefire provided that Israel refrain from defending its people from terrorism and Hamas is allowed to openly import the weapons used to commit its war crimes against Israeli civilians by sea and freely send terrorists into Israel by land without fear of discovery by IDF checkpoints. And lest you think that the Zahar is alone in his views, consider the views of one Hamas leader recently dispatched to Hell by the IDF . There is no chance that true Islam ...
Finding Moral Light through a Tangle
TPMCafe —
... Consider also these words of Hamas leader Nizzim Rayyam, interviewed by Jeffrey Goldberg two years before he was killed, along with two of his wives and several of his children, by an Israeli air attack last week: ...
NBC’s Gregory Describes Hamas as ‘Terrorist Group Bent on Destruction of Israel,’ Ceasefires for Regrouping
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... state to survive in the Muslim Middle East. ‘Israel is an impossibility. It is an offense against God..’ ‘What are our crimes?’ I asked Rayyan. ‘You are murderers of the prophets and you have closed your ears to the Messenger of Allah,’ he said. ‘Jews tried to kill the Prophet, peace be unto him. All throughout history, you have stood in opposition to the word of God.’"
Goldberg’s blog posting titled "Nizar Rayyan of Hamas on God’s Hatred of Jews" can be found here.
Last week, CBS’s Mark Phillips notably chose the word "victim" to refer to ...
The Malice of Mondoweiss
the sad red earth —
... The obvious reality, historically demonstrated far more forcefully than Blumenthal’s petty propagandistic distortions, is that if one sought it out, one could find the same vile bigotry voiced by (non-Jewish) whites against blacks, French and Dutch against Algerians and Muslims, Italians against Albanians – oh, dear, need I go on? And dare I say – Palestinians against Jews? (One small example, via Jeffrey Goldberg, from the late Nizar Rayyan: “I asked him if he believed, as some Hamas theologians do [and certainly as many Hezbollah leaders do] that Jews are the ...
