500 terrorists or civilians? Catch the idea? Erakat doesn't differentiate between terrorists and civilians. Israel is in there for one purpose: to defend it's borders and citizens from savage murderers that strap explosive devices to themselves and detonate these devices without regard for themselves or their innocent victims. Islam has done nothing to foster peace with Israel...it's not a peaceful religion. The very center-piece of Islam's existence is: convert or conquer.
Islam Regarding the Jews:
- Jews are the enemy of Allah. (so are Atheists, Christians, Buddhists, and anyone who is not Islamic)
- Islam is fighting a continuous religious war against the Jews.
- The killing of Jews is a religious obligation.
- Palestinians are the vanguard in this war against the Jews, and all Islamic nations are obligated to assist in this war.
What Islam Teaches Regarding Israel:
- All of the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea (which includes all of Israel) is a religious Waqf -- an Islamic religious trust. Any Moslem who relinquishes any part to Israel is damned to Hell eternally.
- All agreements with Israel are inherently temporary in nature, and are signed only because of Israel's temporary balance of power advantage.
- Allah will "replace" Moslems who shirk their obligation to battle Israel.
- The ultimate destruction of Israel is a certainty.
The Palestinians repeatedly use Islamic sources to defend this religious hatred, even demanding the killing of Jews as a current obligation and the will of Allah. At least four times in recent months, Palestinian religious leaders have taught publicly that the following Hadith (Islamic traditions attributed to Mohammed) is an authoritative directive of Islam today, expressing Allah's will that obedient Moslems kill Jews. According to Sheikh Muhammed Abd al Hadi La'afi, quoted in the official P.A. newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (May 18, 2001), and Dr. Muhammed Ibrahim Madi, delivering the main Friday sermon on Palestinian TV, the Hadith itself states:
"The Day of Resurrection will not arrive until the Moslems make war against the Jews and kill them, and until a Jew hiding behind a rock and tree, and the rock and tree will say: 'Oh Moslem, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!'"
On Palestinian TV (March 30, 2001) the preacher Dr. Muhammed Ibrahim Madi attacked Arab-Moslem world leaders because they are avoiding attacking Israel with missiles and tanks, and threatened them that Allah is liable to "replace them with other men... that fight for Allah... to liberate the lands from the defilement of the Jews."
"My dear brothers, so continues the struggle between the Moslems and the Jews from the past, both near and far, in the present and in the future. And in this matter the word of Allah will be fulfilled: 'There will not be found [anyone] more hostile to the believers than the Jews and the idolaters." (Palestinian Official TV, quoting the Koran - Sura 5,84)