Hamas's War Crimes and Crimes against Islam

by Bassam Tawil • September 4, 2014 at 5:00 am

There is no horror more appalling than forcing the Gazan population to endure the stockpiling of rockets in mosques, the construction of tunnels under their kitchens, the situating of terrorist headquarters under their hospitals and the perverted use made of UNRWA facilities (some of whose personnel collaborated with Hamas and willingly concealed weapons). The West must disband UNRWA.

The tragedy is that the Gazans, in fear of their lives from Hamas terrorists, are afraid to protest.

Hama leaders should be tried for war crimes, and Abbas should remember that since he heads the national consensus government with Hamas, he himself is liable to be tried in the Hague for the war crimes Hamas has committed against the Israelis.

Why is the Oslo II Agreement of 1995, assuring the complete disarmament of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, even being renegotiated, and why was it not implemented in the first place?

As Qatar is a country without a people and the Palestinians are a people without a country, Qatar should be turned into the national home for the Palestinians, "Palestine."

Hamas boasted that Palestinian civilians were killed while Hamas's terrorists remained alive, hiding in their underground bunkers and tunnels. (Image source: Hamas video screenshot)

Hamas violates Islam by fighting and indiscriminately killing Jewish women, children and the aged, while its missiles launched at Jerusalem could easily harm Arabs and Christians, and hit Al-Aqsa mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

The claim voiced by Muhammad Deif and Ahmed al-Jaabari, leaders of Hamas's military-terrorist wing, that all Jews in Palestine will die, sounds suspiciously like the precursor to the campaign waged by the Islamic State [IS] against the Christians, the Yazidi and the Shi'ites in Syria and Iraq -- and it contradicts Islam.

Even before Hamas launched their missiles at Israel and activated their terrorist tunnels, its leaders sent their suicide bombers from the West Bank to kill Jews deep inside Israeli territory. To prevent suicide bombing attacks and protect its population, a decade ago the Israelis constructed the security fence, separating the Palestinian Authority from Israel.

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How to Be "A Disgrace to Humanity" in Turkey

by Burak Bekdil • September 4, 2014 at 4:00 am

"Who is going to protect me from the police?"

Fact-checking and accuracy are not typically the journalistic concepts embraced by the Turkish Islamist daily, Yeni Akit. Incidentally, Yeni Akit always found a seat aboard President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's private jet during his travels abroad.

"A Disgrace to Humanity," is the title of an Islamist newspaper in Turkey, Yeni Akit, and also apparently deemed fit to describe this columnist after the first two parts of "Sorry to Remind You 'Once' Again – but Golda Meir Was Right" were published in the English-language Turkish daily, Hurriyet Daily News.

The story in Yeni Akit accused me "of criticizing Turkey's defense industry and legitimizing Israel's every attack on Palestinians." But Turkish Islamists, though unwillingly, can create humor too. Yeni Akit's story went on to say that this columnist once "claimed" that the Turks had invaded Istanbul. Claimed?! Funny, it is the same Islamists who on every May 29 celebrate the "Conquest of Istanbul" with spectacular fanfare. This year was the 561st anniversary – unless the Turkish jihadists mysteriously believe Constantinople was the Turks' birthplace in Central Asia.

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