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by Bassam Tawil
• January 10, 2017 at 5:00 am
- The murderous
legacy and personality of Yahya Ayyash, a Hamas mass murderer who
masterminded a wave of suicide bombings, are being glorified not only
by his Hamas supporters, but also by the "moderate"
Western-funded Palestinian Authority (PA), headed by Mahmoud Abbas.
- Ayyash won his
reputation on the murdering and maiming of hundreds of Israelis, most
of them innocent civilians. Had he fought for peace and coexistence,
Ayyash would have been condemned as a "traitor" and gone
down in history as a "defeatist" and
"surrenderist."
- "The mosque
that produced the mujahed [warrior] Ayyash is continuing to
produce heroes." – Sheikh Yusef al-Qaradawi, spiritual leader of
the Muslim Brotherhood.
- It is in these
mosques that Ayyash was taught that Islam permits people like him to
build bombs and dispatch suicide bombers to blow up buses. It is also
in these mosques where he was taught that devout Muslims are best
engaged in spilling Jewish blood.
- Children and
youths who attend prayers at these mosques are being fed the same
hate-speech rhetoric that their hero Ayyash was exposed to in his
childhood. Hence it is no surprise that the mosques in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip continue to this day to churn out new terrorists, many
of whom aspire to become like Ayyash – mass murderers.
- Thus, despite
Fatah's double-talk about a two-state solution and "peace"
with Israel, mass murderers still take top billing in its hall of
fame. Fatah is also making it known that its former leader, Yasser
Arafat, approved of such terrorism against Israel.
- The voices of the
Palestinians who reject this education for wholesale slaughter are
being marginalized by the European leaders doing business with the
still-wealthy members of the Arab elite who fund these imams and these
mosques.
- These European leaders
wrongly image that if they get rid of Israel, it will be only Israel.
They fail see that Israel is just the first course. They imagine that
if they accede to Muslims' wishes, they will be safe. What they fail
to see, as in France, Germany, Sweden, Belgium and Britain, is that
they will be next.
An image recently posted to Twitter glorifying Yahya
Ayyash, a Hamas mass murderer who masterminded a wave of suicide bombings
that killed and wounded hundreds of Israelis. The image shows Ayyash's face
superimposed over an Israeli bus that was blown up by a Palestinian suicide
bomber in the 1990's.
Palestinian youths are being urged to follow in the footsteps of Yahya
Ayyash, a Hamas mass murderer who masterminded a wave of suicide bombings
that killed and wounded hundreds of Israelis. Ayyash's expertise in
manufacturing explosive devices earned him the nickname "The
Engineer" and turned him into a hero in the eyes of many Palestinians.
The bomb-maker was killed by Israeli security forces on January 5, 1996,
thereby ending one of the bloodiest chapters of Palestinian terrorism
against Israel.
Two decades later, this arch-terrorist is still being revered as a
hero and martyr. His murderous legacy and personality are being glorified
not only by his Hamas supporters, but also by the "moderate"
Western-funded Palestinian Authority (PA), headed by Mahmoud Abbas.
A few years ago, the PA decided to honor Ayyash by naming a street in
Ramallah after him. The street sign was posted in Ramallah, the
headquarters of the PA where Abbas lives and works, and reads:
by Burak Bekdil
• January 10, 2017 at 4:00 am
- There was only
leader who knew in which language to talk to Erdogan: Vladimir Putin.
In November 2015, two Turkish F-16 jets shot down a Russian Su-24.
Ankara said that as part of the new rules of engagement, any foreign
plane violating Turkish airspace would be shot down. Putin immediately
downgraded diplomatic relations, announced scores of punishing
economic sanctions but, more importantly, he promised that the price
Turkey would have to pay would not be limited to the economy and
trade.
- Erdogan panicked.
He sent envoy after envoy to normalize ties with Russia. Moscow
demanded an apology, which in mid-2016 Erdogan offered to Putin. Since
then, Erdogan has been behaving like a member of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization, led by Russia and China.
- Erdogan's
balancing act has been successful because his Western counterparts
were too naïve in deciphering him and his real political motives. He
keeps fighting until the end, so long as he does not perceive or face
any imminent major political or economic threat to his rule.
In July 2016, Erdogan apologized for downing a Russian
plane, and in August he went to Russia to shake hands for normalization. Pictured:
Russian President Vladimir Putin with Turkey's then Prime Minister Erdogan,
meeting in Istanbul on December 3, 2012. (Image source: kremlin.ru)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, until a few years ago, could
astonish. Now the pattern of his primary political strategy boringly
repeats itself.
The pattern started in 2009 with Erdogan's shocking tirade against
then Israeli President Shimon Peres. "When it comes to killing,"
Erdogan told Peres at the Davos meeting, "You know very well how to
kill." In the following years, that romantic neighbourhood-bully
behaviour against major powers added to his popularity at home -- in
addition to the anti-Zionist rhetoric and Jew-bashing that boosted his
popularity both at home and on the Arab Street.
The target "tyrant" did not have to be non-Muslim.
"Dictator Sisi" -- his reference to Egypt's President Abdel
Fattah al-Sisi, and the "Tyrant, murderer of Damascus" -- his
reference to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are still common currency.
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