by Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre
Paris, 24 November 2023
The Years of Hamas Charter’s incendiary “articles on the Jews” have now become “the Hamas Doctrine”, with 7 October dubbed as their “first large-scale military exercise”.
They have been using access to the Arab press as a propaganda outlet for their Charter, in particular articles 22, 32 and 35, that speak of “the evils” of the Zionists worldwide, controlling the UN (sic!), peddling imperialism and colonialism, etc. a language taken nearly verbatim from “the Protocols of the Elders of Zion” (the Russian 19th century antisemitic forgery).
Hamas has also berated Israel’s Arab interlocutors, who will “pay the price” of negotiating with Israel, in particular:
- Saudi Arabia, as custodian of the Holy Sites (Mecca and Medina) “may once again be attacked by the Houthis”;
- the King of Morocco, as leader of the Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Committee, “has to join the fight as custodian of the third Holy Site in Islam”.
Hamas claims to be “creating a Political Islam to say ‘NO’ to Israel and unite the Muslims against the Zionist entity.”
It is no secret that the leaders of Hamas are not in Gaza, next to their “people”. In fact, the multimillionaires Ismail Haniyeh, Moussa Abu Marzuk and Khaled Mashal live in the luxury of Doha, travelling by private jet to Istanbul, where they are well received by their “Muslim Brother” Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
From outside of Gaza, they are presently calling the shots for the “hostage deal” first round, i.e. innocent children and women, kidnapped and brutalized on 7 October, in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, mostly women and teenagers, arrested for attempting to stab or kill Jews in the streets of Israeli towns...
They feel sure of taking the Left Bank from the PA, in an eventual ballot, as young Palestinians vote mostly for “Hamas”.
Meanwhile, Hamas has called on Hezbollah to open a new front from Lebanon, to wreak havoc in the north of Israel. The UNIFIL peacekeeping “thin Blue Line” of observers is told to stay hidden and look away!
Above all, the godfather of Hamas is the Islamic Republic of Iran, who grants money, weapons, training, advice on tactical and strategic aspects of warfare, while threatening to build an atomic bomb “to first and foremost, wipe Israel off the maps” and, as an endgame, wanting to impose Shia Islam as the leading trend of the Muslim world.
Hamas’ hate of the Jews was no secret, now their genocidal intent is clearer than ever!
Our mentor, Simon Wiesenthal, would have once again reminded the world that “what begins with the Jews does not end with the Jews!”
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