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Source: IMRA
Tue Dec 3,2002 -- Hamas' "Popular Army": Struggle with Israel is part of struggle with the West.
IDF Spokesperson 1 December 2002
The "Popular Army" was founded by Hamas in mid 2002 and dozens of youths have been recruited to it in order to integrate them to the fighting ranks of the Hamas leading up to a possible IDF operation in Gaza. Hamas' spiritual leader Sheik Yassin has said that the organization follows the Jihad way, and is part of Islamic organization's legitimate struggle against the West. Another of the spiritual founders, Sheikh Yussuf Kradawi, further endorsed this outlook.
http://www.idf.il/newsite/images/1201-2p1.gif A Hamas placard : the hand of Hamas stabbing a knife through the flags of the United States, Israel and the USSR and in the background it is written : "Islam is the Answer".
On November 29, 2002, the Hamas held a huge rally in the Sabra neighborhood in Gaza. Throngs of Palestinians joined in to mark the day that the Prophet Muhammad conquered Mecca. Mahmud A-Zahar, one of the senior Hamas leaders, spoke at the rally and said:
- "The era in which Jihad warriors have had their weapons confiscated, have been arrested and sent to prison is long gone. The circumstances have changed, and especially so in light of the establishment of the Hamas' new "Popular Army".
- "The Hamas will never lay down its weapons. It will continue on the path of Jihad, and struggle. The Hamas will not listen to the disturbing voices of those who call for an end to the Intifada".
- "The path of struggle has become the path of the entire Palestinian population and can therefore not be silenced".
The Hamas website described how, at the end of the rally, dozens of armed masked fighters of the "Iz Al Din Al Qassam Brigades" (the military wing of the Hamas) and the "Popular Army" (the new branch of Hamas) took part in a military style march.
Salah Shehadeh (late head of the Hamas' military wing) established the Hamas' "Popular Army" in mid 2002. Shehadeh was killed in an IDF operation in July 2002. Dozens of young Palestinians were drafted to this new organization, where they were given military training for when they would later join the fighting ranks of the Hamas. This was done in preparation for the possible upcoming IDF operation in Gaza. The "Popular Army" operatives were given small arms, machine guns, hand grenades, anti tank missile launchers, mortar bombs, Qassam rockets and different kinds of explosives, some of which weighed up to 200kg and were intended for use against Israeli tanks.
The establishment of the "Popular Army" is part of the Hamas organization's interest in becoming the leading movement in Palestinian politics. In the Hamas' view, the conflict between the Hamas and the Fatah movement over the control of the Palestinian public has already been determined in Hamas' favor. It is a conclusion that can easily be reached by looking at the Palestinian population's ever growing adherence to the way of "the struggle" and the "Jihad" against Israel.
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Hamas is a terrorist organization that receives political and financial support from Islamic organizations in both Europe and America. Hamas' views were clearly expressed in a letter by Sheikh Yassin to Muslims worldwide.
Following are excerpts from the letter (http://www.islamonline.net/fatwa/arabic/FatwaDisplay.asp?hFatwaID=2042 for those that can read Arabic):
- Muslims must prepare themselves for a long battle because this century is the century of Islam, its ability and its victory.
- The Jihad is a religious must, its purpose being to impose the Islamic faith on the whole world and to liberate it from the rule of America and its allies.
(And Islam is a "religion of peace"?? Recently the EU moved to strike the Hamas from the list of terrorist organizations?? Where are the hate-crime outcries here?? How about WAR CRIMES??)
- In this battle, the choice is between triumph and being killed in a Jihad
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God bless,
Kindgo
Inside the will of God there is no failure. Outside the will of God there is no success.
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