Hamas doesn’t care to protect civilians. Hamas wants its civilians dead, so that it can use them in its propaganda. And Westerners continue to fall for this.
“Egyptian Journalist Ibrahim Eissa: Hamas Considers The Lives Of Palestinians Cheap, It Does Not Care How Many Palestinians Die; They Built Tunnels To Shelter Their Weapons, Instead Of Women And Children,” MEMRI, October 18, 2023:
Egyptian journalist Ibrahim Eissa criticized Hamas in his October 18, 2023 monologue on Al-Kahera wal Nas TV (Egypt), saying that Palestinian lives are cheap to them and they do not care about the Palestinian cause. He said that Hamas did not prepare bomb shelters in order to protect its women and children, rather, it has prepared underground tunnels in order to shelter its weapons and ammunition. Eissa said that the result of the October 7 attack is that Hamas is destroying the Palestinian cause altogether, “under the pretext of waging resistance.” He warned that the result of the October 7 attack might be the emigration of more than a million Palestinians or the death of 10,000 Palestinians.
Ibrahim Eissa: “For 16 years, Hamas has been ruling the Gaza Strip with an iron fist, but has not dug and built any bomb shelters for the Palestinian civilians. The 3,000 people killed [in Gaza] – 64% of whom were women and children – could have been safe in bomb shelters now. Hamas dug tunnels and built an underground city, for its weapons, ammunitions, and its means of killing and destruction, but did not build bomb shelters for the living. Why? Because life is cheap to them.
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“The group behind the [October 7] attack is irresponsible. This is a group that does not take into any consideration whatsoever the lives of people or the future of the Palestinians and their cause. Neither me nor anybody else should defend this attack, or its truly sensational success so long as its outcome is so catastrophic.
“This attack has revealed that this group we are dealing with has not only hijacked Palestinian decision-making, but is losing Palestine altogether, under the pretext of waging resistance. The simple question is whether they should not wage resistance. I say, with all due respect: Don’t.
“If this resistance leads to the destruction of the Palestinian cause… If this resistance leads to the emigration of 1.1 or 1.2 million people, nobody really knows the numbers yet… If as a result of this resistance 5,000 [Palestinians] will die… They say: ‘But we killed 2,000 of them.’ Really? Are our lives that cheap? Are lives so cheap that it does not matter if 5,000 or 10,000 of our people die, so long as we know that we killed 2,000 people from the other side? This is how [Hamas] views Palestinian lives. This is the culture of death they are possessed with.”
mgoldberg says
Meanwhile, at the same time, the endless other side of the muslim brainwashing goes on. Here is an article from today over at elderofziyon.
https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2023/10/two-antisemitic-articles-in-major.html
…Al Masry al Youm, an influential and non-partisan Egyptian newspaper, published at least two antisemitic articles today alone.
One summarizes a book about Jews called “The Children of Israel in the Qur’an and the Sunnah,” by the late Imam Dr. Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi who was the head of Al-Azhar.
Tantawi said part of his motivation to write this book was to expose Jewish lies. The book says that examples of their corruption on earth include murder, assassination, espionage, concealment behind religions, inciting strife and wars, and spreading vice. It says that Jews deserved all of the expulsions from different countries through history because of their corruption.
The book also says that Judaism says that Jews have the right to steal from someone who is not a Jew, to deceive him, to lie to him, and to kill him if they are confident that their crimes will not be discovered.
The last chapter says the Jews did not learn their lesson from Nazi Germany, and they are continuing in the Nazi path in how they treat Palestinians. Which is obviously the reason this book written years ago is being featured in today’s newspaper.
CogitoErgoSum says
This illustrates how despicable Islam is. This man has a spark of what we perceive as decency in his heart with his concern for human life. However, the fighters in Hamas undoubtedly consider him to be one of the “hypocrites” who holds this life above the life that Muhammad told them awaits them if they are killed fighting the Infidels. For Hamas and others who think the way they do (the true believers) there are no civilians. Everyone who is Muslim is part of the army of Islam and every Infidel is an enemy of Islam. The members of Hamas did not see the Israeli settlers as civilians, only as Jewish Infidels to be killed. Their goal was death for the Jews and death for themselves as martyrs if Allah willed it. They believe every Muslim who dies in the fight with the Infidels will be rewarded with Paradise by Allah so of what concern is it to them if even the children are killed in the Jihad. This is their mindset and too many of us cannot comprehend it but sooner or later we must.
somehistory says
He says this, but biden and crew would deny it, because they know more about their “other team” than this Egyptian.
Raghu says
Expected from savages, not at all shocked.