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Hamas co-founder Mahmoud Al-Zahar: "Allah willing, their expulsion from Palestine in its entirety is certain to come. We are no weaker or less honorable than the peoples that expelled and annihilated the Jews. The day we expel them is drawing near." memri.org/tv/hamas-leade…
Zahar, on Jews: "We extended our hands to feed these hungry dogs & wild beasts & they devoured our fingers. We've learned the lesson – there is no place for you among us & you have no future among the nations of the world. You are headed to annihilation." memri.org/tv/hamas-leade…
Deputy Speaker of the Hamas Parliament Ahmad Bahr: "Oh Allah, destroy the Jews and their supporters. Oh Allah, destroy the Americans and their supporters. Oh Allah, count them one by one, and kill them all, without leaving a single one." memri.org/tv/hamas-offic…
Deputy Speaker of the Hamas Parliament Ahmad Bahr: "A woman may set out [on Jihad] without her husband's permission, and a servant without his master's permission. Why? In order to annihilate those Jews." memri.org/tv/hamas-offic…
Hamas co-founder Mahmoud Al-Zahar said "removing the Jews" from Israel is "an immutable principle" appearing in the Quran. "[The Quran says] 'Kill them wherever you may find them'...We will fight them wherever we can..." memri.org/tv/hamas-offic…
Hamas cleric Yunis Al-Astal: "The [Jews] are brought in droves to Palestine so that the Palestinians – and the Islamic nation behind them – will have the honor of annihilating the evil of this gang...[B]acteria are far less dangerous than the Jews." memri.org/tv/hamas-mp-an…
Al-Astal: "It is this Jewish cruelty that spurs our youth, the Palestinian people & the Islamic nation to confront these cruel beasts, in order to uproot them from our blessed lands & to wipe them out of existence, because they pose a threat to mankind." memri.org/tv/hamas-cleri…
Friday sermon on Hamas TV: "We Muslims know best the nature of the Jews... Allah willing, the moment will come when their property will be destroyed and their sons annihilated, until not a single Jew or Zionist is left on the face of the Earth." memri.org/tv/hamas-tv-fr…
Friday sermon on Hamas' TV channel: "Our doctrine in fighting you [the Jews] is that we will totally exterminate you. We will not leave a single one of you alive, because you are alien usurpers of the land and eternal mercenaries." memri.org/tv/hamas-sermo…
Hamas cleric and TV host Abu Funun: "I want to swear on the Quran that not a single Jew will remain on this land... By Allah, we will dig up your bones from the graves and get them out of this country. We will not leave any trace of you on this land." memri.org/tv/hamas-cleri…
Hamas sermon: "Oh Allah, bring annihilation upon the Jews. Oh Allah, bring annihilation upon the Jews. Paralyze them, destroy their entity, tear them apart, bring upon them a terrible punishment. Oh Allah, enable us to get to the necks of the Jews." memri.org/tv/rafah-gaza-…
Children on Hamas TV:
HOST: Zakariya, what would you like to be [when you grow up]?
ZAKARIYA: An engineer.
HOST: An engineer? Why do you want to become an engineer?
ZAKARIYA: So that I can blow up the Jews. memri.org/tv/children-ha…
A young girl on a children’s show on Hamas TV: "We will wipe out the people of Zion, and will not leave a single one of them." memri.org/tv/children-ha…
Dialogue from a children's show on Hamas' TV network:
TULIN: I will shoot the Jews.
RAWAN: All of them?
TULIN: Yes.
RAWAN: Good. memri.org/tv/hamas-tv-ch…
HOST: His name is Assud ["Lion"].
GIRL: How come you are called Assud even though you look like a rabbit?
ASSUD: Because a rabbit is not good. He's a coward. But I, Assud, will get rid of the Jews, Allah willing, & I will eat them up, Allah willing, right memri.org/tv/hamas-bunny…
Hamas cleric Yunis Al-Astal: "[T]he Jews are the enemies of mankind, and not just of the Islamic nation...Allah described the Jews as 'the worst of beasts in the sight of Allah.' Therefore, none of the evil creatures are as evil as the Jews." memri.org/tv/hamas-cleri…
Hamas cleric Yunis Al-Astal: "Our jihad will be a blessing from Allah to all mankind. It is incumbent upon the blessed Palestine to wage jihad, in order to rid the world of the evil of the Jews. Thus, the blessing of Palestine will shine in the world..." memri.org/tv/hamas-cleri…
Hamas Interior Minister Fathi Hammad: "The Jews have become abhorred and loathed outcasts, because they live off corruption and the plundering of the peoples – not only the Arab and Islamic peoples, but all the peoples of the world." memri.org/tv/hamas-inter…
Imam and Hamas TV host Sheik Iyad Abu Funun: "Why did Hitler annihilate a number of Jews? The figure is still in dispute...If the Jews had been a respectable, well-bred people, who treated others with respect, he would not have done those things to them." memri.org/tv/palestinian…
Hamas MP Marwan Abu Ras: "Those Jews are the vilest and most despicable nation in history. They never command good or forbid evil, and they never abide by any pact they make with Muslims or with infidels. They have betrayed everybody they have known." memri.org/tv/hamas-mp-ma…
Palestinian preacher Bashir Al-'Ashi on Hamas TV: "The Jews are not the enemies of the Palestinians alone. If I could, I would say this in English, so that the people of the whole world would understand that the Jews are their enemies." memri.org/tv/preacher-ha…
Al-Ashi: "The Jews are the enemies of the Christians worldwide. They are the enemies of the Americans and of all the nations, not just of Palestine...The Jews are prepared to sow corruption in the world, and to ignite strife and wars between the nations." memri.org/tv/preacher-ha…
Hamas cleric Yunis Al-Astal said the Quran "indicates that we must massacre [the Jews] in order to break them down & prevent them from sowing corruption in the world." The Jews "spark the flame of war, but Allah has taken it upon Himself to extinguish it." memri.org/tv/hamas-mp-al…
"Jews and their leaders...appeal to the sentiment of their people by quenching their thirst for sucking the blood of others.... All the nations of the world should know that sucking the blood of non-Jews and killing them is in the very nature of the Jews." memri.org/tv/preacher-ha…
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For millennia, Christians hated Jews. Christians said that Jews murdered God (Jesus) and that every Jew was responsible.
Matthew 27:25 quotes Jews saying of Jesus: "His blood be on us and on our children!"
Fast forward to the 19th century. Hatred based on religion is less cool.
There's a new attitude: Follow the science.
The science said that humanity was divided into races. Jews were an inferior race. This "scientific" hatred of Jews got a scientific-sounding name: antisemitism.
רוב השנה, לא התרחש שום דבר דרמטי בעולמות הסושיאל של דו"צ.
זה השתנה לקראת סוף 2012, עם תחילת ההסלמה בעזה.
רקע קצר: באמצע נובמבר 2012, חמאס ירה יותר מ-100 טילים מעזה לישראל. עשרות אלפי ישראלים נמלטו למקלטים. במקביל, מחבלים מהארגון פיצצו מנהרה מתחת לגבול וירו טיל נ"ט לעבר חיילים ישראלים. ה-"הרתעה הישראלית" לא היתה בשיאה.
It's been ten years since I joined the @IDF Spokesperson's Unit.
Until now, I've said very little about my service.
It's time to tell some stories, correct the historical record, and publish a portfolio of my work.
This is a thread about war and social media.
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My role in the @IDF: managing editor, English social media platforms.
The year is 2012.
For most of the year, nothing dramatic happened on our social media.
That would soon change.
Some context: In mid-November 2012, Hamas fired more than 100 rockets from Gaza into Israel. Israelis were running to shelters. Hamas also detonated a bomb in a tunnel under the border and fired an anti-tank missile at Israeli soldiers. Israel's "deterrence" was clearly lacking.
Attention foreign diplomats in Israel: We appreciate your condemnations of terror attacks. But as far as I can tell, not one of you has condemned Palestinian leaders for repeating the "Al-Aqsa is in danger" lie that inspires these attacks. If you want to help, please start there.
Some underreported information about Ra’ad Hazem, the Palestinian terrorist who opened fire at a bar in Tel Aviv on April 7 and murdered three people. A thread ⬇️
Hazem was a criminal from the Jenin "refugee camp" in the northern West Bank. I write "refugee camp" in quotes because the people there are neither refugees nor are they living in a camp. It's a neglected part of town. I suspect many people there knew Hazem was up to no good.
Hazem was in a financial dispute with other Palestinian criminals in Jenin. Whether he owed them money or was being extorted, the point is that he wasn't paying. He received death threats. After he was shot at, he knew his days were numbered. That's when he decided to buy a gun.