by Dr. Reuven Berko
Leaders of Islamist
terrorist movements act according to an operational code comprised of
their own interpretations of the Prophet Muhammad's biography.
Implementation of the
code occurs in stages with the aim of creating a global Islamic
caliphate. The Jews' realization of their dream to return to Zion, which
also appears in the Quran, is a slap in the face of a worldview that
considers Islam the only modern religion that is supposed to rule in the
world.
The leaders of Hamas,
who are the products of such a view, gave Israel's Operation Pillar of
Defense in Gaza the name "Operation Ibn Gewil." The term appears three
times in the Quran and pertains to the mass extermination of infidels
and evildoers. Two of these three events describe God's destruction of
Sodom, when He rained down "Gewil stones" upon the city's residents.
One doesn't need to
have graduated from Al-Azhar University to understand that senior Hamas
members equated the missiles and Qassam rockets they fired at Israel to
those same stones hurled by God at the infidels of Sodom. Their
application, however, was only partially successful: Instead of a
heavenly barrage of stones the terrorist organizations in Gaza fired,
with the grace of Allah, missiles at Israelis, and in contrast to the
Quran's story of the Elephant, the Hamas terrorists cowardly used their
civilian population, which elected them to power, as a human shield
against the IDF's firepower.
The terrorist leaders
have thus far called for destroying "the Jews," just like Muhammad did
at Khaybar. However, in his latest speech in Gaza, Khaled Mashaal
adopted the anti-Semitic manipulation prevalent in the West, which
exhibits "tolerance" toward Jews but hatred toward the Zionists.
In his new version,
Mashaal claims that Islam has nothing against the Jews, but the
"Zionists" who have no rights to the land (some six million Jews living
in Israel) will be destroyed.
With his generosity,
Mashaal turned to Western nations, asking them to evacuate the Jews to
save them from destruction. With a flattering wink to Europe, he
declared that in the Islamic state of Palestine to be created, Muslims
and Christians would live side by side. Mashaal forgot to mention the
persecution of Christians (the infidels and crusaders who will convert
to Islam by threat of the sword), and the incidents of rape, robbery and
church burnings that have led to Christian emigration from the region.
He didn't mention the status of "dhimmi," stipulating that under Islamic
law all Christians would be designated as second-class citizens.
The West's recognition
of Palestine as an observer state in the United Nations, against
Israel's wishes, was hasty. This recognition provided Islamist
terrorists from across the globe an al-Qaida-type base in Gaza and the
West Bank, because Mashaal's precondition for Palestinian unification
lies in the continuation of the armed struggle.
The demonstration of
missiles and Hamas flags in the West Bank are harbingers of a Third
Intifada, which will include, of course, Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas' collapse and Hamas "Gewil stone" missile fire toward the
center of Israel.
Hamas has learned that
Israel will continue to find itself in a judgmental stranglehold forcing
it to use "proportionate responses," applied by the same Western
nations that themselves burned entire cities to the ground during World
War II. Hamas has learned, therefore, that Israeli efforts have been
channeled into defensive measures, which since the days of the Crusader
fortresses have been a formula for certain defeat.
These lessons are based on the
moral catch Israel has put itself in, which exposes its citizens to
missiles that fly over its army and prevents it from hurting and
deterring the enemy. Because a deterring punishment of Hamas' leaders
and its electorate is an existential requirement, it isn't advisable for
Hamas to lean on these lessons for very long.
Dr. Reuven Berko
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=3066
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