Q&A with Hamas guy Sheik Abdul Yassin, translated to non-spin

Material from http://www.islamonline.net/livedialogue/english/Browse.asp?hGuestID=XbQ5ap

re: Abu Mazen

“In the name of Allah, I don’t see in Abu-Mazen a new leadership, more than an added leadership to the old one because he (Abu Mazen) is considered a member of the executive committee of the PLO”

NON-SPIN: “PLO meaning ‘not trying to kill all the Jews fast enough’”

“I will tell you that he is the architect of the Oslo agreement.”

NON-SPIN: “Die die die die!”

“In fact, the Palestinian people are not demanding a new Prime Minister, but these are American-Israeli demands. Palestinians need to liberate their land and country and lift the occupation and the siege.”

NON-SPIN: “So let’s move along and drive the Jews into the sea!”

re: Civilians being killed by Hamas

“I urge you to look with your own eyes and hear with your own ears; why do you only hear about the killing of Israeli women and children and don’t hear about the killing of Palestinian women and children? Why don’t you demand Israel too to stop killing Palestinian women and children? And if I told you that for every Israeli child killed, four Palestinian children were killed… do you not hear or read of that?”

NON-SPIN: “Look over there, I swear the Jews are doing something! If you don’t see it then you are being blinded by them, if you do then you should demand they do something instead. It’s not my fault”

re: Innocence

“Who is the innocent? Is the Jew who took my home, land, and expelled me from it by force, killed my children, wife, and parents… is he innocent?”

NON-SPIN: “There was a big mob of big hook-nosed Jews who took my home, I think, so that means no Jew is really innocent to me.”

“Every Muslim is demanded to go to Jihad with himself and with his money, and if he can’t fight, he must do that with his money.”

NON-SPIN: “Then again, as you can see from the last six wars with Israel, Muslims around here can’t fight, so we might as well take some mercenaries, or you can send your money to me”

re: Civilians

“My brother, certainly we don’t target women, children or the elderly in our operations.”

NON-SPIN: “But we are pretty poor shots with our bombings”

“But the “Mujahed” goes out to find a concentration of soldiers and military men, whether in civilian or military clothes and attack them.”

NON-SPIN: “Usually we think they’re around markets or public areas. Damned Jews must have invisable uniforms”

“Some children may have fallen by mistake. If you go back to the lists of killed children on both sides, you will find that, statistically, for every Jewish child killed, four Palestinian children are killed by the Israeli army; its tanks, planes and settlers.”

NON-SPIN: “I will show you in ONE HOUR”

re: Weapons

"Mr. John, we don’t own F-16s, Apaches, rockets or even tanks. "

NON-SPIN: “Although part of the Jihad thing probably tells you to give any rockets you have to us”

“Why don’t Israelis stop the tanks and fight us with rifles so the fight would be equal? Instead of asking the Palestinian people to stop defending themselves, you should ask the Israeli occupying aggressor to stop the occupation and the massacres.”

NON-SPIN: “We want equality in fighting, the Israelis can also fight us with suicide bombings and rock throwing to make it equal. We’d do the same if the shoe was on the other foot, then we’d use the shoe to kill the filthy beast”

Needless to say… I don’t think this guy has a Roadmap to reality. :rolleyes:

Gee Fal, are you a follower of Meir Kahane?

Nice response there…

I’m not a follower of Kahane.

I am sure the hell not gonna believe any bullshit from Mr. Hamas over there

Some of the people asking questions are a tad suspect also, methinks.

Someone by the name of Rosenberg is slamming the Zionists? Is this Bizarro World?

Anyways. Robbie, it’s the leader of Hamas. Did you expect reasonable dialogue? You can’t get that from any extremist, no matter what religion is used as a shield for their madness.

True…

I must say that I was not let down by Hamas, in connection to my expectations for dialogue.

As for the Rosenberg… well… you think the good Sheik noticed his name, or did he ignore Dawud Rosenberg in order to say “I don’t hate all Jews, just all the Jews except the following”

Let’s hurry up with the Palestinian state. They have a right to independence.

[sub]Of course, given the present state of the Palestinian areas, any new state will likely be a base for more attacks on Israel. It will therefore get reoccupied, and we can move on to trying this all over again. [/sub]

I agree that Hamas is hell bent in thinking that Palestinian security can be achieved by the destruction of Israel.

I don’t like this but Palestine need either a Giuliani-type leader, or the Oppupied territories may go into all out internecine war before anything significant positive changes happen.

So, er, capacitor, do you wish to explain your remark that somebody who is disgusted by Hamas and thinks Yassin might be speaking in euphemisms is automatically a Kahane follower? Incidentally, since you’re (presumably) against Kahane, does that mean you’re for Hamas?