Palestinian TV Broadcast Calls for Killing Jews and Americans
(October 2000)
Following are excerpts from a Friday sermon in
the Zayed bin Sultan Aal Nahyan mosque in Gaza, broadcast live on the
official Palestinian Authority television. The speaker is Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabiya, Member of the PA
appointed "Fatwa Council" and former acting Rector of the
Islamic University in Gaza.
"...None of the Jews refrain from committing
any possible evil. If the Labor party commits the evil and the crime,
the Likud party stands by it; and if the Likud party commits the evil
and the crime, the Labor party stands by it.... The Jews are Jews,
whether Labor or Likud... They do not have any moderates or any
advocates of peace. They are all liars. They all want to distort
truth, but we are in possession of the truth."
"O brother believers, the criminals, the
terrorists are the Jews, who have butchered our children, orphaned
them, widowed our women and desecrated our holy places and sacred
sites. They are the terrorists. They are the ones who must be
butchered and killed, as Allah the Almighty said: 'Fight them: Allah
will torture them at your hands, and will humiliate them and will
help you to overcome them, and will relieve the minds of the
believers...."
"O brothers in belief, this is the case of
the Jews and their habitual conduct, and what happened yesterday, and
has been going on for two weeks, and before that for many years, and
which will be repeated in future years unless we stand up like men
and unless we have the known Muslim position, [the position] of those
who wage Jihad in the path of Allah, those who defend their rights
and who sacrifice all that is dear to them."
"O brothers in belief, the beautiful bride
has a costly price and dowry.... Our bride is paradise, O brothers in
belief. ...The cost and the dowry of this bride, the dowry of this
paradise, is that we fight in the path of Allah, and kill and be
killed."
"Allah has purchased from the believers their
persons and their property in return for the promise that they shall
have paradise, for they fight in the cause of Allah, and they slay
the enemy and are slain. This is a promise that He [Allah] has made
incumbent upon Himself, as set out in the Torah, the Gospel, and the
Koran..."
"...We say to the Jews, and we say to
Clinton, and we say to all those who supported the Jews and still
cooperate with the Jews, we say to them, that this will not shake us,
we are the Palestinian people, who are positioned in the land of the
Isra' and Mi'raj. It will not shake a single hair of ours. Our
determination will not sway. We will raise the banner of
Jihad..."
"...America and Europe and the world were
shocked by the kidnapping of three tramps, the kidnapping of three
wretched soldiers, and the killing of two in Ramallah. But their
feelings were not moved, and they did not shudder when they saw the
children Muhammad ad-Durrah and others women, and men, and youths
being martyred by cannons and missiles, and all the barbaric
instruments that the Jews possess."
"They were moved, for the sake of five
persons, and the world went into turmoil and it will not stop for
Clinton or for the old hag Albright, they will not be relieved, and
they will not cease to be concerned, and they will not rest until the
Jews return to their families. But as for the Palestinians, as for
this pure blood, it can go to Hell in the eyes of the Americans and
Europe and the Jews..."
"This is the truth, O Brothers in belief.
From here, Allah the almighty has called upon us not to ally with the
Jews or the Christians, not to like them, not to become their
partners, not to support them, and not to sign agreements with them.
And he who does that, is one of them, as Allah said: 'O you who
believe, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies, for they
are allies of one another. Who from among you takes them as allies
will indeed be one of them...'"
"...The Jews are the allies of the
Christians, and the Christians are the allies of the Jews, despite
the enmity that exists between them. The enmity between the Jews and
the Christians is deep, but all of them are in agreement against the
monotheists against those who say, 'There is no God but Allah and
Muhammad is his messenger,' that is they are against you, O
Muslims."
"Even if an agreement of Gaza is signed - we
shall not forget Haifa, and Acre, and the Galilee, and Jaffa, and the
Triangle and the Negev, and the rest of our cities and villages. It
is only a matter of time. The weak will not remain forever weak, and
the strong will not remain forever strong... If we are weak today ...
and we are not able to regain our rights, then at least we have to
pass on the banner waving high to our children and
grandchildren..."
"...None of the factions is allowed to stand
on the sidelines at this stage, or not to think well of avenging our
pure martyrs and wounded. ...Our people must unite in one trench, and
receive armaments from the Palestinian leadership, to confront the
Jews. By Allah, the Jews, O brothers in belief, do not know, nor have
they ever known throughout history, anything but force and Jihad in
the path of Allah. The Jews are like a [gas] pedal as long as you
step on it with your foot, it doesn't move, but if you lift your foot
from it, it hurts you and punishes you. This is the case of the
Jews."
"Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where
they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you are. Wherever you
meet them, kill them. Wherever you are, kill those Jews and those
Americans who are like them and those who stand by them they are all
in one trench, against the Arabs and the Muslims because they
established Israel here, in the beating heart of the Arab world, in
Palestine. They created it to be the outpost of their civilization
and the vanguard of their army, and to be the sword of the West and
the crusaders, hanging over the necks of the monotheists, the Muslims
in these lands. They wanted the Jews to be their spearhead ..."
"... Let us put our trust in Allah, close
ranks, and unite our words, and the slogan of us all should be,
'Jihad! Jihad! For the sake of Palestine, and for the sake of
Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa!'"
"...We will not give up a single grain of
soil of Palestine, from Haifa, and Jaffa, and Acre, and Mulabbas [Petah
Tikva] and Salamah, and Majdal [Ashkelon], and all the land, and
Gaza, and the West Bank ..."
"...Allah, deal with the Jews, your enemies
and the enemies of Islam. Deal with the crusaders, and America, and
Europe behind them, O Lord of the worlds...."
Sources: MEMRI |