Death Is Coming

The photograph below shows a Hamas poster. The translated caption reads: "Death is coming, O Zionists, hide yourselves". The words are par for the course. But the photograph shows what are meant to be Israeli citizens, covering their heads against incoming rockets. This gives away the Hamas policy: citizens are their targets. We know this, of course, but this poster illustrates it very clearly. Not that the media will pay it any heed.

Professor Moshe Sharon, advisor on Arab and Islamic affairs to Israel's Prime Minister Begin from 1977-1982, provided us with a quote from the Hadith, in his book "Judaism, Christianity and Islam" (page 103), that deals with the "Islamic tradition describing the conditions for the 'Final Hour', for the Day of Judgment and for the establishment of the (ideal) Islamic divine order. According to this tradition, attributed to the prophet Mohammed himself, the 'Hour' will not come before the Muslims fight a final battle with the Jews and annilhilate them. In the course of the war, the Jews will hide from their Muslim pursuers behind rocks and trees. On that day, Allah will give mouths to the rocks and to the trees and they will call out: 'O Muslim, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.'"

The same quote still appears frequently on handbills issued by the Hamas terrorist organization in territories administered by Israel as a rallying cry to kill the Jew.