Israel Battles the Gaza "Death Industry"
One of the main upsets expressed by the international media, when Israel is at war, refers to the death or injury to “the civilians.” Indeed this is a sad statistic and it offends our human nature to see the innocent suffer. But that is not the case in the hardnosed world of Islamic terrorism. The Hamas radicals speak openly of a “death industry.” They explain that a good Muslim seeks martyrdom and desires death.
A Hamas spokesman addressing the Palestinian Authority [PA] legislative council this year spoke of his pride in using women and children as human shields. He said, “Palestinians desire death with the same intensity that Israelis desire life.”
The Palestinian Media Watch monitored a recent program broadcast by Al Aqsa TV (Hamas). Hamas representative Fathi Hamad said: “For the Palestinian people death became an industry, at which women excel and so do all people on this land; the elderly excel, the Jihad fighters excel, and the children excel. Accordingly [Palestinians] created a human shield of women, children, the elderly, and Jihad fighters against the Zionist bombing machine, as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy, ‘We desire death as you desire life.’”
It is a sad case of ignorant journalism when Western writers blame Israel for a strategy, which Hamas believes honors Allah. By calling on their people to die, they actually believe they are serving him.
In another Al Aqsa TV report a Palestinian girl spoke emotionally about the death of her family members killed in an Israeli bombing raid. The girl said: “We were sleeping seven girls in the room. We were asleep and didn’t know what was happening. In the morning the bricks were on top of my head, and on the heads of all my sisters. My 4-year-old sisters lying next to me, was dead.”
She was asked: How many were you? “Seven. In the other room were my mother, my father, my younger brother, and another sister, who is 13-days-old,” she said. Then came her staggering assessment: “I say, Hamas is the cause, in the first place, of all wars!” (Al Aqsa TV, Dec 29, 2008)
So before you believe the inept, ill-informed stories of journalists who write from the comfort of an air-conditioned office, far from the action, think about the truth.
Many people in Gaza hope and pray Israel will remove Hamas from the brutal administration of their lives. The Middle East is being subjected to a continued barrage of bloodthirsty thuggery and God bless Israel as it alone seeks to end the misery for everyone.
(By Ron Ross, BFP Israel Mosaic Radio, December 30, 2008)
Prayer Focus
Pray that life will overcome death and the so-called “death industry” will claim no more innocent victims.
Scripture
“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil” (Deuteronomy 30:15).