http://www.israelnn.com/article.php3?id=2460 The Covenant of Death Israel National News ^ | 02 July 2003 | Prof. Paul Eidelberg "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it..." Thus begins the Covenant of Death, officially known as "The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement" [Hamas]. To grasp the true nature of the war that is being waged against the Jewish State of Israel, and not only by the Arabs in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, let us examine this Covenant of Death. In discussing Islam's war against the Jewish state, the Covenant refers to the Arabs of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza as but a single "squadron" of the "vast Islamic world". "Our struggle against the Jews is very great," and this struggle will go on "until the enemy is vanquished and Allah's victory is realized." The Covenant also refers to the Islamic Resistance Movement as "one of the wings of [the] Moslem Brotherhood in Palestine." It calls upon all Moslems to "raise the banner of Jihad in the face of the oppressors, so that they would rid the land and the people of their uncleanness, vileness and evils." Contrary to the puerilities of the media, the Moslem Brotherhood is not a fanatical sect of Islam; it is Islam authentic and resurgent. Again: "The Islamic Resistance Movement is a distinguished Palestinian movement, whose allegiance to Allah, and whose way of life is Islam. It strives to raise the banner of Islam over every inch of Palestine." The Movement has the support of Egypt. When the Egyptians took over Taba from the Israelis, they raised banners declaring "TABA TODAY, PALESTINE TOMORROW." "The Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realization of Allah's promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: 'The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight and kill the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslem, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.'" Unlike the cult of peace, Moslems regard "Death for the sake of Allah [as] the loftiest of wishes." Hence these Moslems are prepared to drench "Palestine" with blood. They are not about to be bought off with the bourgeois policy of "territory for peace." This policy arouses in Arabs contempt for Jews. It makes Jewish blood cheap by making the Land of Israel cheap. It is precisely this betrayal of the Jewish Covenant of Life that has given rise to the Islamic Covenant of Death. "The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf, consecrated for the future Moslem generations until Judgment Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered; it, or any part of it, should not be given up." With utter contempt for Israeli prime ministers like Ariel Sharon, who call for peaceful co-existence between Jews and a subtle manifestation of moral the Covenant of Death proclaims: "There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors." Israels ruling elites lack the intestines to face the totalitarian dimensions of this Covenant: "The day the enemies usurp part of Moslem land, Jihad becomes the individual duty of every Moslem. It is [therefore] necessary to instill in the minds of the Moslem generations that the Palestinian problem is a religious problem, and should be dealt with on this basis." Hence, the Covenant enjoins upon Moslems the following oath: "I swear by the holder of Muhammad's soul that I would like to invade and be killed for the sake of Allah, then invade and be killed, and then invade again and be killed." Hard for the demagogues of peace to take such heady stuff seriously. Having learned nothing from the past, these demagogues persist in negotiating with the successors of the Nazis, the PLO-led Palestinian Authority, while the Covenant of Death proclaims: "The [PLO] Palestine Liberation Organization is the closest to the heart of the Islamic Resistance Movement." The Covenant of Death concludes by emphasizing that Jihad is "the only way to liberate Palestine. There is no doubt about the testimony of history. It is one of the laws of the universe and one of the rules of existence. Nothing can overcome iron except iron." The Covenant of Death actually expresses the genocidal goal of the PLO-Palestinian Authority, still ruled by Yasser Arafat. No government of Israel has had the courage to destroy that despotic regime. Nor will it, until Israel embraces the Covenant of Life.39 responses total.
If you dig through the 60's, you can find the black panthers saying much the same thing. Are you arguing that because some crazed arabs wrote this we should support discrimination against all the rest?
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re#1: Are you saying that because they write this kind of stuff and then act accordingly that we should pretend they don't really mean it? I'm sure that mvpel could find equally disturbing writings by equally disturbing israelis - the difference is that Israel doesn't allow those disturbed writers to act (or at least tries not to) and the PLA currently does.
Re #1: Are you arguing that the presence of peace-loving people in the West Bank means that they should give Hamas terrorists a free pass?
I Dont agree with the Arab position or their methods, but the one thing Im sure of is that Sharon is a blood-thirsty ASSASSIN. He is behaving exactly in the same way the Nazis did before and during WWII.
Back that up, if you can.
Yes please back that up with some facts. He is only responding to suicide attacks on his own people. If those attacks would stop then Sharon would stop responding.
Yes, I agree with bis (#5). Ariel Sharon is obviously SO much more evil than the Hamas militants, and the militants who plan and execute the incineration of innocent civilians on buses and in cafes and dining halls are VASTLY morally superior to Sharon, who tries to kill them first. How dare he interfere with such an important task? The talk of 60% of Palestinians being out of work must be a cover for the Israeli work camps where they are all actually being used as slave labor. The gas chambers and crematoria will no doubt be discovered in due course, along with the falsification of the population records showing that the Palestinian population isn't shrinking due to the genocide - the figures showing growth in their numbers faster than Israel's has to be a pack of vicious lies. I'd like to thank bis for setting us SO straight. Sharon = Hitler - yeah! (does dripped sarcasm hurt keyboards?)
No, but drool tends to gum up the springs when it dries.
Re #9: Ah, the voice of experience.
Yeah. I remember cleaning up after you.
[Cool! That was like a double "I'm rubber, you're glue," "No, *I'm* rubber, *you're* glue."] I don't see why Hamas should get to have a covenant of death just by calling shotgun on it. What about us? We turned murderous after 9/11 on a scale Hamas and the others still haven't grasped. Bush officials keep saying it isn't even close to being over yet. That's what I call a covenant of death. The Hamas thing is more like "The Palestinian Hissy Fit" or something.
Re: 3 - the closest Israel comes to this is the rhetoric of the Kach and
Kahane Chai groups, and they've both been outlawed by the Israeli government
since 1994.
Under the "Roadmap," the PA is required to carry out the dismantlement of
terrorist capabilities and infrastructure, confiscate their weapons, arrest,
disrupt, and restrain them, etc. They did none of this as of the ninth week
of the Roadmap ( http://www.zoa.org/pressrel/20030701b.htm ), so it stands
to reason that the PA, Israel's so-called "partner in peace" shares the
Hamas goal of driving Jews out of the "occupied territories," that is,
"every inch of Palestine."
http://www.middleeastfacts.com/images/pal-e-s.jpg
- a map published by the PA in 2001.
How is Israel supposed to achieve peace and security in such a situation?
(re#12: Glad you liked it. Being a breeder helps, you get a better understanding of the behaviour of children.)
Why should the rest of us have smartass children of our own as long as we have Beady to watch?
Yeah. Feel free to enjoy, russ. Think of it as evolution in action. While you are trying to impregnate kleenex, I am expressing my genes.
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I -- for one -- am very happy you bred, pvn. Don't let Russ get you down.
Kid karate. "He doesn't want your Skittles, Lindsey, he just wants your Skittle's *space*."
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birth?
Funny, I distinctly recall ol' Beady saying that he thought his wife "couldn't", so he's now trumpeting his... accident. That's about what I'd expect from someone who just finished reading _Snow Crash_. To have taken so long, he must move his lips when he reads.
re#20: Thier parents? Who said it was finished for the first time? I also read and liked _True Names_ - have a first edition hardbound as a matter of fact. I've even played the game on paper that is the plot element behind saberhagen's _Octagon_ and saw the IBM360 in operation that coordinated it.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33569 The killing of Jews is a mandatory religious obligation established by Islam's founder Muhammad, according to a Muslim academic who spoke on Palestinian Authority television. "Muhammad said in his Hadith: "The Hour [Day of Resurrection] will not arrive until you fight the Jews, [until a Jew will hide behind a rock or tree] and the rock and the tree will say: 'Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!'" said Hassan Khader, founder of the Al Quds Encyclopedia. Khader spoke during a lecture, broadcast Sunday, on what he describes as the war of the Jews against Palestinian "trees." The program was monitored by Palestinian Media Watch, or PMW, an Israel-based group. PMW director Itamar Marcus says Khader's statement was one of many instances in recent years of Palestinian religious leaders teaching publicly that this Hadith part of Islamic traditions attributed to Muhammad is a current obligation of Islam. Marcus says these teachings challenge the common belief that the premise for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians is over borders. "Palestinian religious and academic leaders publicly teach that the Israel-Palestinian conflict is part of Islam's irreconcilable religious war against the Jews," he says. "To justify this view," he adds, "Palestinians repeatedly cite Islamic sources to demand as religious doctrine, that Jews be hated, even demanding the killing of Jews as the will of Allah." Marcus says "the continued expression of this PA worldview is most ominous." "For by depicting redemption as dependent on Muslims' murder of Jews, the murder of Jews is being presented as mandatory religious obligation," he says. =========== So much for the "no incitement" condition of the latest so-called truce.
Stop spamming, scum.
Re #24: How many times are you going to cut-and-paste this?
I posted it where it's apropos, which happened to be two different items. Is anyone going to comment on it and its implications for a lasting peace between Israel and its enemies?
Well, my comment would be that with this sort thing being passed off as "discussion" then Israel/Palestine is probably in for another 40 years of conflict.
R #6 ... Does anybody need moer proof than the wall that SHARON is building in Israel; Isn't that NAZI Behavior?
Not actually. The NAZIS tended to drive around walls rapidly with their tanks. Building them wasn't so much a NAZI thing.
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While I can understand why the Palestinians are against the idea, I think it is probably a good idea. If a wall is what it takes to make Israelis feel secure, it probably will end up being good for the Palestinians in the long run. Besides, if a time comes when it is no longer necessary, it can be torn down.
Lynne might be surprised to find me disagreeing with the above, but I'm actually just quibbling. (: A wall isn't what it takes to make Israelis feel secure. It's what can provide security (not just a "feeling", as can be seen from the success of a similar security fence in Gaza) in the absence of a Palestinian Authority with the backbone to prevent terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians and due to the reality of neighboring governments (e.g. Syria & Iran) who support terrorism because they are not interested in ending the violence and peacefully coexisting.
Ok. A fence is a reasonable defensive measure.
If they can't get along with each other, a big fence is probably a good idea. Maybe it should be garrisoned by neutral troops, with orders to shoot anyone who tries to cross in either direction with a weapon.
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I think it should be patrolled... by NINJAS!!!
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Math joke: They're going to build a fence around Israel and then declare themselves to be on the outside.
You have several choices: