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Let's see the loons work overtime on this.

I expect the usual denial and quoting of Hamas spokesmen writing in Western papers that Hamas is not really anti-Semitic.

After all, Hamas says so. So we should believe them.

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Derogatory Descriptions of the Jews

In many of its publications Hamas employs harsh derogatory descriptions of the Jews, often taken from the Koran, such as 'blood suckers,' 'brothers of apes,' 'killers of the prophets,' 'human pigs,' and warmongers 'the descendants of treachery and deceit,' 'butchers.' They are a 'cancer expanding' in the land of Palestine, 'threatening the entire Islamic world.' They are 'spreading corruption' in the land of Islam. 'Deceit and usury are stamped in their nature,' and they are all 'thieves, monopolists, and usurers.'7

Almost every issue of the Hamas organ, Filastin al-Muslima contains articles enumerating the evil deeds and character of the Jews based on an analysis and exegetes of specific suras (chapters) from the Koran.
Particularly significant, in view of the historical record, are the equations, which Hamas makes between the Jews, the Zionists and the Nazis and the denial of the Holocaust. Hamas argues that Israel's actions exceed those of the Nazis, and that 'the Jews represent Nazism in its most criminal form.'8 Yet, following the Stockholm conference on the Holocaust, held in January 2000, Hamas declared that the conference had:

A clear Zionist goal, aimed at forging history by hiding the truth about the so-called Holocaust, which is an alleged and invented story with no basis . . .. The invention of these grand illusions of an alleged crime that never occurred, ignoring the millions of dead European victims of Nazism during the war, clearly reveals the racist Zionist face, which believes in the superiority of the Jewish race over the rest of the nations.9

Abd al-cAziz al-Rantisi, Hamas leader from Gaza, went further by denying the Holocaust, while simultaneously charging that 'the Zionists were behind the Nazis' murder of many Jews,' with the aim of intimidating and forcing them to immigrate to Palestine. Furthermore, he claimed that the Nazis 'received tremendous financial aid from the Zionist banks and monopolies,' prior to their seizure of power and that 'this great financial aid helped the Nazis build the military and economic force needed to destroy Europe and annihilate millions.' 'When we compare the Zionists to the Nazis,' Rantisi concluded, 'We insult the Nazis,' he concluded. 10

Reviewing the life of the late Pope John Paul II, the Hamas weekly al-Risala concluded that his 1998 letter, in which he apologized to the Jews for the Holocaust was his 'greatest crime'.11

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