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by Samuel Westrop
• December 4, 2014 at 5:00 am
Debates
over the causes of radicalization and extremism in Britain invariably
focus on how to tackle support for groups such as ISIS and Al Qaeda. But
why is it that Hamas and PFLP are deemed moderate regardless of how many
civilians they murder?
"God
be praised for the martyrdom operation in Jerusalem and news of the state
of the killed and injured." — Interpal partner Ahmed Brahimi, in
response to the murder of Israeli Jews praying in a synagogue.
Ahmed Brahimi with Ahmad Bahar, a senior Hamas
official who has called
for the killing of Jewish children across the world.
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The response to the murder of four Israelis praying at a synagogue
in Jerusalem on November 18 was, in some quarters, one of jubilation.
Although Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the murders,
officials of his political party, Fatah, were careful to explain on
Palestinian television that the terrorists were "blessed…soldiers of
Allah" and that Abbas had only issued a condemnation for
"diplomatic reasons... [he] is forced to speak this way to the
world."
Other Palestinian groups were less oblique. The Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which claimed responsibility for the
murderous attack, described the terror operation as "heroic"
and handed out sweets on the streets of Gaza.
Hamas praised the attack and described the murders as "a
quality development... an appropriate and functional response to the
crimes of the occupation."
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