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Media Mourns ‘Moderate,’ ‘Pragmatic’ Hamas Leader Who Wanted to Kill All the Jews
Frontpagemagazine ^ | August 1, 2024 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 08/02/2024 6:53:34 AM PDT by SJackson

"We love death like our enemies love life.”

After attending the inauguration of Iran’s new president among the festive chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh found death waiting for him.

“We always shout: ‘Death for the sake of Allah is our loftiest aspiration,’” Haniyeh had claimed.

The Hamas billionaire who lived in luxury in Qatar hadn’t actually wanted to die, but he should have been careful what he wished for before the missile granted him the death he cheered for.

After the Hamas atrocities of Oct 7, Haniyeh had declared that we need the “blood of the women, children, and elderly” to awaken the “revolutionary spirit”. But his his dreams of killing all the Jews and seizing Israel ended when he left the protection of U.S. terrorist “allies” like Qatar and Turkey, and visited Iran.

Haniyeh never left Iran.

Earlier, Israel had taken out Fuad Shukr, the number two figure in the Hezbollah Islamic terrorist group, still wanted by the United States for his role in the Marine Corps Barracks bombing in Beirut which killed 241 American military personnel. It followed that up by taking out Haniyeh even as he was staying under the terrorist regime’s military protection in the heart of Tehran.

Allies from Doha, Moscow, Beijing and D.C. to CAIR to BLM to the BBC mourned his death.

“Never say that those martyred in the cause of Allah are dead—in fact, they are alive!” CAIR San Francisco head Zahra Billoo tweeted. “Tonight, we mourn Ismail himself but know his martyrdom is not in vain.”

White BLM leader Shaun King, who recently converted to Islam, cried that, “the United States and Israel have just assassinated the dear brother Ismail Haniyeh,” he declaimed. “These genocidal monsters think that this weakens Hamas, or weakens the resistance, but it does neither. It will only strengthen both.”

Haniyeh had previously condemned America for killing Osama bin Laden, describing the Al Qaeda leader as a “Muslim Mujaheed” or Islamic Jihadist, and hailed Abdullah Azzam, the brains behind Al Qaeda’s theology, as “a knight of Jihad and resistance against the enemies of Allah.” But the media still rushed to redefine him as a “pragmatic” peace-seeking “moderate.”

The BBC described Haniyeh as “moderate and pragmatic”. Reuters confusingly claimed that, “tough-talking Haniyeh was seen as the more moderate face of Hamas”. “Ismail Haniyeh was the pragmatic face of Hamas,” Sky News told viewers. The Guardian hedged a little by describing Haniyeh as “relatively pragmatic” compared to, say perhaps, the Caliph of ISIS.

Relativism was also the order of the day at the New York Times which quoted someone from the European Council on Foreign Relations describing Haniyeh as “a relatively pragmatic counterpoint”. The Washington Post lauded Haniyeh as “a more moderate force in Hamas.”

The very moderate Hamas leader had previously bragged that his Arab Muslim colonists in Israel “sacrifice their children, their sons, for the sake of Palestine and for the sake of the land of Islam and the Muslims. The might of the nation of Jihad is revealed on the land of Palestine, as well as in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Sudan, and in all the fronts of confrontation with the enemies of Allah.” By “enemies of Allah”, the Hamas leader meant Christians, Jews and all non-Muslims.

But the media had its pragmatic and moderative narrative. The Wall Street Journal jumped in with “Strike in Iran Kills Hamas’s Leading Advocate for a Gaza Cease-Fire”.During the Oct 7, Haniyeh had prayed in gratitude to his god ‘Allah’ for the initial Hamas successes in killing Israelis. He had then urged Muslims to wage war to ethnically cleanse all the Jews from Israel.

Stories quickly followed about the “dangers of escalation” and a “regional war”, as they do every time Israel fights back against Islamic terrorism. Islamic terrorism is never an escalation, only defending against it is. Muslim terror victims are just statistics, but the death of Muslim terrorists is always the subject of worldwide concern in the international capitals of terrorist appeasement.

The Putin regime in Moscow, which has been responsible for ‘suiciding’ political opponents around the world, declared that “the elimination of Haniyeh is a political murder that is completely unacceptable to us.” As opposed to the ones that are acceptable to it.

China, which had recently hosted a Hamas delegation, condemned Haniyeh’s execution and claimed that the Communist regime, which keeps threatening to invade Taiwan, “has always advocated resolving regional disputes through negotiation and dialogue.”

The Biden administration worried that the death of a murderous terrorist who had urged a “Jihad of Swords” and proclaimed that “we should hold on to the victory that took place on October 7 and build upon it” would undermine its attempt at “peace negotiations” with Hamas.

Oct 7 was a horrifying lesson in the fact that peace doesn’t come from making deals with terrorists but by standing up to them and putting them down. The Big Lie of negotiating with terrorists is based on falsely describing them as “pragmatic” and “moderate”. Every Jihadist, no matter how horrifying, is characterized as a leader looking to make a deal for the right terms.

No one takes Islamic terrorists at their word. And they should.

Jerusalem, unlike D.C. and Brussels, has begun taking Islamic terrorists at their word. When they talk about destroying Israel and killing all the Jews, they no longer assume that’s a negotiating position, but a plan. And when the terrorists say that “Death for the sake of Allah is our loftiest aspiration”, they don’t assume that’s empty rhetoric, but a genuine aspiration.

And Israel is fulfilling their pragmatic and moderate dreams of being martyred for Allah.

“We love death like our enemies love life,” Ismail Haniyeh, pragmatic moderate, once claimed.

A man should do what he loves. And politicians and the media should stop lying about what he is. And about what Hamas is. And about what Islam is.


TOPICS: Editorial; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: danielgreenfield; greenfield; israel; sultanknish; whataretheirfrnicks

1 posted on 08/02/2024 6:53:34 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: texas booster

ping


2 posted on 08/02/2024 6:53:50 AM PDT by SJackson (Lot of people put my grandpa through hell, and he’s still standing, Kai Trump)
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Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
3 posted on 08/02/2024 6:54:41 AM PDT by SJackson (Lot of people put my grandpa through hell, and he’s still standing, Kai Trump)
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To: SJackson

The Great Greenfield is, as usual, 100% correct here.


4 posted on 08/02/2024 6:58:18 AM PDT by Blennos ( Byaasearepeat itnbelow.)
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To: SJackson

you shall reap what you sow


5 posted on 08/02/2024 7:02:40 AM PDT by xp38
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To: SJackson

I love it and it leaves me speechless how moderate the terrorists are.


6 posted on 08/02/2024 7:05:54 AM PDT by californian by choice
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To: SJackson

Please pray for שי לי בן מרינה. He is a soldier on the front lines of the “The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness”.


7 posted on 08/02/2024 7:12:19 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: SJackson

BTTT


8 posted on 08/02/2024 7:15:06 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: SJackson

Please pray for שי לי בן מרינה. He is a soldier on the front lines of the “The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness”.


9 posted on 08/02/2024 7:18:55 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: 100American; 21twelve; 2nd amendment mama; A Conservative Thinker; Absolutely Nobama; ...
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam and leftism.

The Biden administration worried that the death of a murderous terrorist who had urged a “Jihad of Swords” and proclaimed that “we should hold on to the victory that took place on October 7 and build upon it” would undermine its attempt at “peace negotiations” with Hamas.

Sharp words from Mr Greenfield. But accurate.

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As always, please FReepmail me if you want on or off the esteemed Daniel Greenfield ping list.

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10 posted on 08/02/2024 7:21:08 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: SJackson

unfortunately, cutting off the head of the Islamic snake ... while an excellent excellent and most necessary achievement....only results in another Satanic mass murderer stepping forward from the stinking lair of Islamicists ... to attack and slaughter more innocent people

it is necessary to take out the entire bunch of them, not just a few gang leaders here and there

so, congrats to whoever managed to dispatch the badturd to Jahannam (Moslem Hell)
but please, please...keep up the good work! There are many miles to go before anybody can sleep safely in this world


11 posted on 08/02/2024 7:37:59 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Blennos

What the media misses is that Israel’s objective is the defeat of Hamas and pushing Hezbollah back in the north. Not a cease fire.


12 posted on 08/02/2024 7:39:15 AM PDT by SJackson (Lot of people put my grandpa through hell, and he’s still standing, Kai Trump)
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To: SJackson

The Marine barracks were blown up almost 40 years ago-—I r 1983.

This ‘leader’ organized that event. 240 +++ marines died.

HE deserved the mattress bomb.


13 posted on 08/02/2024 7:50:55 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: SJackson

14 posted on 08/02/2024 7:56:05 AM PDT by Rummyfan (I’m In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: SJackson
“We love death like our enemies love life,” Ismail Haniyeh, pragmatic moderate, once claimed.

He got what he wanted. AMF.

15 posted on 08/02/2024 7:57:17 AM PDT by Rummyfan (I’m In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: SJackson

Weird.


16 posted on 08/02/2024 9:07:36 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: SJackson
May Ismail Haniyeh have great company in the hell he has created for himself and the whole of the residents of GAZA.


AlahWAHOO Whackbar !



17 posted on 08/03/2024 4:59:30 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: SJackson

The key word is Hamas.

Hamas is no longer allowed to exist

Haniyeh and all that follow must die where ever they are.


18 posted on 08/03/2024 5:06:22 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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