Duaa for Gaza

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

The Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wa'sallam said:

"The Muslim is a unique Ummah among the whole of mankind:
Their Land is ONE, their War is ONE, their Peace is ONE,
Their Honour is ONE and their Trust is ONE."
[Ahmad]

[Event]ACTION FOR GAZA: Gaza Crisis - March to the Arab Embassies Jan 11

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

The Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wa'sallam said:

"The Muslim is a unique Ummah among the whole of mankind:
Their Land is ONE, their War is ONE, their Peace is ONE,
Their Honour is ONE and their Trust is ONE."
[Ahmad]

Latest updates on Gaza raids

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/12/2008122916531937971.html

The Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wa'sallam said:

"The Muslim is a unique Ummah among the whole of mankind:
Their Land is ONE, their War is ONE, their Peace is ONE,
Their Honour is ONE and their Trust is ONE."
[Ahmad]

[Audio Talk] Tears of Aqsa

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

Tears of Aqsa

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Letter written in blood reveals...

that Muslim women are being kept without clothes in prison.

"If Muslims exist on the face of this earth, then it is binding on them to save the Muslim women whom the Russian forces have kept in prison without clothes."

These words are from a letter written by a Chechen youth being held in prison by the Russians. This letter has been written in blood. This writer did not have anything else to write it with, the brave and bold youth who put his life in line for this letter wrote the above mentioned words twice, at the end of these lines he wrote that he has ran out of this ink and has no more blood to write, this Chechen youth must have thought that just maybe his blood will have the power to awaken the insensitive and callous Muslims of the world to the plight of Chechen Muslims.

The Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wa'sallam said:



"The Muslim is a unique Ummah among the whole of mankind:



Their Land is ONE, their War is ONE, their Peace is ONE,


Their Honour is ONE and their Trust is ONE."


[Ahmad]

Part 6: Conclusion

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim


In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful


Part 6: Conclusion

Ibrahim Ghosheh

Contents

Part 1: The 1948 Nakba : Facts and Lessons

Part 2: Israeli acts of aggression against Al-Aqsa

Part 3: Massacres against Palestinians

Part 4: A Message From Hell - Victor Ostrovsky

Part 5: History of Aggression

Part 6: Conclusion

This is the 6th and the final part from an-Nakbah series concerning the "Israeli"-Palestinian issue.

While closing this series, I would like to mention, what a brother mentioned to me concerning this catastrophe, that the reason why the Muslims have been afflicted with these calamities, is due to their distancing themselves from the true understanding of Islaam, which honoured them back in the history in the first place. It is indeed very unfortunate to know that Muslims in general, due to their lack of knowledge, cannot differentiate between Tawheed and Shirk, Sunnah and Bid'ah, like 'Umar bin al-Khattab said that Islaam will be taken apart bit-by-bit, until there comes in Islaam (a person) who does not know what Jaahiliyah is.

Therefore, we see a group of Muslims calling to innovations in the religion, that sometimes even amount to Shirk with Allah - Most High, while another group calling towards Arab Nationalism, thinking in that there is hope for their revival, whereas it was Islaam initially that honoured them. Similarly we find Muslims rushing to extremes in religion, by concentrating either on the spiritual side, while neglecting the material side of Islaam, or the other extreme from the "Islaamic" political organisations who concentrate mainly on the material aspects, while neglecting the spiritual side.

Another obvious reason for the downfall of the Muslims is of course the abandonment of Jihaad in the path of Allah as the Messenger of Allah SAW clearly stated, "If you deal in 'Eenah (a type of interest), and hold on to the tails of cows, and become pleased with agriculture, and abandon Jihaad, Allah will place upon you humiliation, which will not be removed from you, until you return to your Deen".

It is time for us to return to our Deen by responding to the call of Allah and His Messenger as Allah stated in His Book:

"O you who believe! Answer Allah (by obeying Him) and (His) Messenger when he (SAW) calls you to that which will give you life" (al-Anfaal 24)

A Tusbal-Muslimaatu Bi Kulli Thaghrin

Wa 'Aish al-Muslimeena Ithan Yateebu

Amaa Lillahi wal-Islaami Haqqun

Yudaafi'u 'Anhu Shubbaanun Wa Sheebu

Fa Qul Li Thawil-Basaa`iri Haithu Kaanu

AjeebuLlaha Waihakumu Ajeebu

Are the Muslim women being oppressed in every land?

Will the livelihood of the Muslims ever become good?

Doesn't Allah and Islaam have a right?

That every youth and aged, for it should fight?

Then say to those with sight, wherever they may be...

Respond to Allah, woe be to you, respond!

Abuz-Zubair

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The series ends with a few random quotes, as a summary of the series as well as a reminder for us all.

I would like to clarify that this series dealt with the political ideology of Zionism, and not Jews as a people, as Islam does not permit hatred or enmity based on purely racial origin. In doing so one would be no better than the Zionists.

It may also be noted that the best critiques of Zionism and Israel have been done by the likes of Noam Chomsky, Dr. Israel Shahak, and journalists such as Gideon Levy and Amira Hass, all of whom are Jewish. Their contribution has proved invaluable, in a quality which has not been produced by any Arab or Muslim writer/academic. I would encourage all to read their works on the issue.

An extensive section on Zionism, Palestine and Israel can be found in the Al-Waaqi web site which will finally be complete by the end of this month (June), alhamdulillah.

I sincerely hope that this series has been informative, and has stimulated you all to do further reading on the Palestinian issue.

Webmaster, Al-Waaqi Islamic Mail

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"There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist." - Golda Meir, former Prime Minister of Israel

"We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel.... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours ... When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do will be to scurry around like drugged roaches in a bottle." - Rafael Eitan, Israeli Chief of Staff

"... we have no solution, that you shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wants to can leave - and we will see where this process leads? In five years we may have 200,000 less people - and that is a matter of enormous importance." - Moshe Dayan, encouraging the transfer of Gaza strip refugees to Jordan

"I ask Rabin to make concessions, and he says he can't because Israel is too weak. So I give him arms, and he says he doesn't need to make concessions because Israel is strong" - Henry Kissinger

"I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism." - Moshe Sharett, Israel's first Foreign Minister and later a Prime Minister

"Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves .. politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country. ... Behind the terrorism [by the Arabs] is a movement, which though primitive is not devoid of idealism and self sacrifice." - David Ben Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel

"This reform is needed badly because the existing corruption has many advocates who would like to make this area (the Middle East) an open market for the Israelis, who will, consequently, affect the ideology, culture and commerce in this region, not to mention the military aspect. Hence, it is a plan to make us slaves in our own land at the mercy of our enemies.. Meanwhile, no one is allowed to express his/her opinion. We are simply told to agree to everything without objection or risk facing punishment by the security forces.." Shaykh Salman al-Awdah, Saudi Arabia

"The PLO is the one who finished the Intifada which shaped the right of Palestinians for struggle." Dr. Edward Said

"Sinking Israel in the sea, as former Egyptian President Jamal Abdul Nasser wanted is not good enough. There are many who know how to swim and come back." The Iraqi 'Babil' newspaper

"If the hour of liberation is far away, this doesn't mean it is now the hour of surrender." George Hadad, a Jordanian writer

"The plenty of honour and dignity is only one, however the plenty of humiliation is many..." Shaheed Sayed Qutb, Egypt

IslamicAwakening.com

The Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wa'sallam said:



"The Muslim is a unique Ummah among the whole of mankind:

Their Land is ONE, their War is ONE, their Peace is ONE,

Their Honour is ONE and their Trust is ONE."

[Ahmad]

Part 5: History of Aggression

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim


In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful


Part 5: History of Aggression

Ibrahim Ghosheh

Contents

Part 1: The 1948 Nakba : Facts and Lessons

Part 2: Israeli acts of aggression against Al-Aqsa

Part 3: Massacres against Palestinians

Part 4: A Message From Hell - Victor Ostrovsky

Part 5: History of Aggression

Part 6: Conclusion

- In 1948 thousands of Palestinians took refuge or were driven from their homes during the war that followed the proclamation of the state of Israel. Many settled in Lebanon.

- In 1968, Israeli commandos blew up 13 airliners at Beirut airport Israel said the attack on Beirut airport was a reprisal for an attack in Athens by Lebanese-trained Palestinian guerrillas.

- In April 1973, Israeli elite troops, including present-day FM Ehud Barak disguised as a woman, entered Beirut flats and shot dead three Palestinian guerrilla officials. Israel said those targeted played a role in a guerrilla attack on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics a year earlier.

- In March 1978, in retaliation for the killing of more than 30 bus riders in a raid by sea-borne guerrillas near Tel Aviv, Israel attacked PLO positions in south Lebanon and occupied a 10 km (six mile)-wide strip north of the Lebanese border. About 1,500 people were killed, mostly Lebanese and Palestinian civilians. Some of the Israeli forces pulled out, but not before handing over the area Lebanon's civil war. U.N. Security Council resolution 425 ordered the Israelis to leave. They refused. The United Nations set up UNIFIL, a 5,000-strong peacekeeping force to help restore Lebanese state authority down to the border. Israeli troops did not let it reach the border.

- In 1981, PLO guerrillas rained Katyusha rockets into northern Israel and the border strip. Israel launched air raids on Beirut in retaliation, killing hundreds of civilians.

- In July 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon with the declared aim of routing Palestinian guerrillas. It cited as justification an attack that seriously wounded its ambassador in London. Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon promised his army would stop after 40 km (25 miles) but it encircled Beirut, 40 km further north. After bombardments, PLO fighters agreed to leave the city. About 20,000 people were killed, mostly Palestinian and Lebanese civilians.

- In September 1982, Israeli forces stormed west Beirut after pro-Israeli Christian leader Bashir Gemayel, who days earlier had been elected president, was assassinated. Israeli troops ringing the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila allowed revenge-seeking Christian militiamen into the shantytowns. More than 1500 of refugees were slaughtered and Israel was widely condemned.

- In 1985, Bruised by world outrage and hurt by mounting guerrilla attacks by Hizbullah guerrillas, Israel, under Prime Minister Shimon Peres, pulled most of its forces out of Lebanon and set up a 15 km (nine mile) wide occupation zone to stop cross-border attacks. But its continued presence stirred the resentment of local south Lebanese. Israel then faced a more relentless resistance, Hizbullah.

- In February 1992, Israeli helicopter gunships rocketed the car of Hizbollah leader Sheikh Abbas Musawi, killing him, his wife and son. Rocket attacks into northern Israel followed, and then Israeli forces stormed two villages north of the occupation zone.

- In July 1993, Israel unleashed "Operation Accountability," of weeklong air, artillery and naval blitz in which 130 people; mostly Lebanese civilians, died and 300,000 fled their homes. This was in response to killing seven Israeli soldiers by Hizbullah resistance.

- In April 11, 1996, Israel unleashed "Operation Grapes of Wrath" in which more than 170 people; mostly women and children had been killed so far, including 102 refugees shelled at a U.N. base in the south.

- In May 23, 2000, Israeli forces finally pulled out of southern Lebanon humiliated by the Hizbullah resistance. Threats of invasion to Syria and Lebanon followed, if northern Israel was attacked by Hizbullah. Israel pointed out the vulnerability of the 35,000 Syrian troops garrisoned in Lebanon. What remains to happen; only time will tell...

IslamicAwakening.com

The Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wa'sallam said:



"The Muslim is a unique Ummah among the whole of mankind:

Their Land is ONE, their War is ONE, their Peace is ONE,

Their Honour is ONE and their Trust is ONE."

[Ahmad]

Part 4: A Message From Hell - Victor Ostrovsky

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim


In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful


Part 4: A Message From Hell - Victor Ostrovsky

Ibrahim Ghosheh

Contents

Part 1: The 1948 Nakba : Facts and Lessons

Part 2: Israeli acts of aggression against Al-Aqsa

Part 3: Massacres against Palestinians

Part 4: A Message From Hell - Victor Ostrovsky

Part 5: History of Aggression

Part 6: Conclusion

From 'The Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs', March 2000, pages 35-36,78. Former Mossad case officer Victor Ostrovsky is the author of 'By Way of Deception' and 'The Other Side of Deception' Occasionally an article appears that is so disturbing in nature that one wants to cry out to the world in anger and frustration, "stop!" The Tel Aviv daily Ha'aretz carried just such an article, by Aviv Lavi, on Dec. 23. For the most part Ha'aretz translates its articles-or somewhat sanitized versions-into English and makes them available on its Web site. But others, like the one described below, remain untranslated for reasons that will become obvious. It is the story of Haim Peretz, a seemingly ordinary Israeli who grew up in the small town of Ofakim-not a place overflowing with left-wing activists. Nevertheless, in clearing him for obligatory military service, Israeli officials overlooked a character flaw. This ordinary young man from an ordinary town had, unnoticed by the authorities, developed a conscience. It apparently went unnoticed while Haim Peretz spent almost three years working on F-16 aircraft as an Israeli air force technician. However, with only two weeks left to complete his three years of obligatory service, this first sergeant with a clean record was sent for a two-week stint as a security guard at the holding facility at the Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip. It is not at all unusual that soldiers reaching the end of their service are volunteered by their units to bolster manpower in under-staffed units to which no one wants to be assigned. Peretz had no intention of making waves at that facility. He just wanted to finish his two weeks and return to civilian life. The holding facility is on the Israeli side of the Erez checkpoint and it is designed to incarcerate Palestinians arrested while trying to enter Israel without the proper documentation. The majority of the prisoners are people who were apprehended while trying to get into Israel to find work. They are arrested and brought to the facility where they await trial. The wait can extend from a week to three months. Usually the facility holds about 60 inmates and is run by a regular crew of IDF soldiers, bolstered by temporary help sent in from various units, as was Haim Peretz. He arrived at the facility in March of 1999. After he was released from the military and was a civilian again, he came forward and described his experiences at Erez to Ha'aretz. Below are some excerpts: Peretz spent his last two weeks of military service at the Erez crossing's holding facility. "From the first day I started to understand what was going on there. Six to seven prisoners are housed in every three-by-three meters (about nine-by-nine feet) cell. There are no beds. The prisoners (men of all ages, from teenagers to old men) sleep on blankets on the (concrete) floor. "The cell is windowless except for two small barred ventilation slots. There is no toilet in the cell: the prisoners are given access to a toilet once a day when they are taken out in the morning for their daily walk. The rest of the time they use a large bucket that is placed in the center of their cell. By the way, this practice prevents them from praying (as their religion requires them to do five times daily) because the bucket turns the cell into a washroom, an environment in which Muslims are not allowed to pray. "Regulations specify that the prisoners have the right to a full hour's walk every day. But an hour is a flexible thing: Sometimes the sergeant (a reference to whomever is responsible for the prisoners, usually a corporal or even a private) decides that it will be only a half hour, or even 15 minutes. Letting the prisoners outside their cells for the daily walk is a hassle for him, and in most cases he does not want to bother. "At this time all of the prisoners are supposed to go to the toilet, using two stalls for 20 people, since 20 are taken for their walk at a time. Often there is no toilet paper. When they ask for it, sometimes they are told yes, sometimes no, sometimes maybe. "On the sabbath there is no walk. After all, the sergeant has to get his sabbath rest. So the prisoners are locked in for a full 48 hours, from Friday morning to Sunday morning. "Everyone is entitled to two cigarettes a day, but the guards use the cigarettes as a bargaining chip, taking the prisoners through seven stages of hell before they receive their smokes. Sometimes the guards don't give the prisoners any cigarettes, just because they don't feel like doing it. "The prisoners are taken out for a shower once a week, on Wednesday. It's a horrible sight: the prisoners are pushed in a large group into two showers, with one cake of soap for the entire group. Meanwhile the guards hold a stopwatch, shouting at the prisoners to hurry. 'Some of the prisoners just forego the humiliation and stand aside. There were some in the prison who did not take a shower for weeks. There is no reason for letting them take only one shower a week except that to provide more showers would be a bother for the sergeant. Even after taking a shower the prisoners have to get back into their own dirty clothing. They are not given any clean clothing or even a towel. Sometimes they sit for months in the same dirty clothes. "There are 12- and 13-year-old kids there. When I was there (in March), there was one kid who arrived barefoot. That was the way he stayed. He walked around that way and was brought in front of the judge that way. "They have no contact with their families. The day they are arrested they are allowed one telephone call, and if there is no one at home, that's their problem. Whoever is brought to trial is entitled to a conference with a lawyer, but that doesn't happen often because the trials themselves appear to be an aberration. "The lawyer promises that if he is hired he will get the prisoner off with a 1,500-shekel fine. That from people who tried to infiltrate Israel to work for 50 shekels a day. [Note : Shekel is the currency of Israel. 1 Israeli Shekel is equivalent to about 17p in the UK and 20c in the US. - Al-Waaqi Editor] "I would escort the prisoners to trial as a security guard. The trials took place in a small room in an adjacent facility. These are assembly line trials. They are worthless. The lady judge and the lady prosecutor have lunch together before the hearings and are themselves bored by the routine. They call each other by their first names. They hand out sentences of several months or a fine, and because most of the prisoners do not have any money to pay a fine, they remain in jail. "One 15- or 16-year-old kid was fined 300 shekels. I took him aside and gave him 200 shekels that I had on me. The officer saw the exchange from the corner of his eye and yelled at me for wanting to bail out an Arab. I saw the kid a week later still in jail, just because he did not have all of the money to pay the fine. "They get three meals a day. In the morning a large plate is placed in the cell on which the guards throw a loaf of bread, a small container of white cheese, and some vegetables. The single small container of cheese is supposed to be enough for seven people. At lunch there are rice and one or two hotdogs per prisoner. How many depends on how much the prisoner sucks up to the soldiers. "When there was a visit from Amnesty International to the facility the inspectors were taken to the cell where the collaborators were housed. The collaborators told the visitors the food was great. In the evening the prisoners get the same thing as in the morning. Most of the time they are hungry. If someone happens to be out for a trial during lunch, or if he has been taken away for any other reason, he will not be given his lunch. When I tried to change that, I was told to shut up. Even as it is, I was told, the upkeep of the prisoners is costing the country too much and "These leeches are ruining our lives." "Once a week, on Tuesday or Wednesday, the prisoners are given a hot drink. One week when I was in the facility they did not get a hot drink. It is pitiful to see people who have been looking forward for a full week to a hot cup of tea begging when they do not get it. (This was winter and there was no heating in the cells.) The only reason the tea was not made was that the cooks didn't want to bother." It is a rarity that an Israeli breaks ranks and tells the public the minute details of what is really going on inside such government installations. It is not an easy thing to do, and Haim is still trying to understand why he felt it was up to him to come forward and tell his story. "Maybe it's because I myself have come from a place where affluence was not the norm, and I saw people enduring hard times. I couldn't stand seeing people so mistreated. For God's sake, we were not dealing with terrorists here, or people who wanted to harm anyone. All these poor people wanted to do was work so they could feed their families. "When I was in high school I worked in a textile factory where most of the workers were Arabs. I had a great relationship with them. I learned a few words of Arabic before I went into the army. I also had the opportunity to take a couple of courses in Arabic and Islam in the Open University. That is probably the reason that I, unlike most other soldiers, did not regard every Palestinian as a terrorist and I didn't look down on them." Liaison Between Guards and Prisoners Due to his partial knowledge of Arabic Haim became a liaison between the guards and the prisoners. He escorted them to trial or to the nurse or the doctor. There a prisoner might have expected to find an island of compassion, someone who, in compliance with the Hippocratic oath he or she had taken, would relieve some of the prisoner's suffering. But the reality was different. "The medical treatment they get is a story in itself. When they arrive they are given a medical check-up to verify that they are healthy enough to be held in prison. That checkup is meant to provide the facility with a cover of legitimacy. "In fact, the doctor did not touch or check the prisoners. He just asked them if they were all right. He did not speak one word of Arabic and couldn't understand what they answered-not that there was much chance that they would complain anyway. "The doctors are rotating reservists. When I was there, the doctor did not let the prisoners sit or lie on the bed when he checked them. He didn't want to get it dirty, so he told them to lie on the floor. During one of the visits, when a prisoner complained of some pain the doctor said in my presence: "They should die, these Arabs, they should get one bullet each and be done with them. Who needs to treat them?" Later he said he was only joking, but I know he was not. "From the beginning he treated them like garbage. He only pulled them or pushed them, barked at them and cursed them. "What is your name, dirty Arab?" he would say. On a good day he would give them Acamole [an Israeli version of aspirin], which was not much help. "One day one of the prisoners swallowed several pills and lost consciousness. He lay there for over an hour, but the doctor was in no hurry. "Let him wait, no one told him to commit suicide," the doctor explained. "One fewer Arab will be better." "One of the prisoners had a bad rash, which he got from the military blankets. The prisoner was accused of arriving from Gaza that way. But I know he was well when he came. He was 16 and had been caught the day before when he and his brother tried to infiltrate Israel. The doctor said that he should be placed in isolation. "When the prisoner was placed in isolation, still suffering from an extremely itchy rash, he was crying and yelling for help. He stayed like that for a long time, freezing in a small cell with very little to eat. I begged the officer to let me explain to him why he was isolated and try to calm him down. I was not allowed to do so. "The doctor said that the prisoner needed to have a shower every day. And even if he had a shower, it probably wouldn't help as he would have to get back into his old clothing afterward. "Most soldiers regarded the Palestinians as animals. I saw soldiers who would, for the fun of it, spit into the plates of the prisoners. When the prisoners arrive they already have been beaten up by the borderpatrol that caught them. "On one of the first days I saw a border patrol soldier beating up a kid right there in the facility. I asked him to stop. "shut up, you Arab-loving lefty," he said to me. At the time I still didn't want to get involved, so I backed off. "The sergeants beat up the prisoners all the time. It appears the soldiers expect the prisoners to speak fluent Hebrew, and every word a prisoner speaks in Arabic sounds to the guards like a curse word. If a prisoner who did not know better complained, he would be beaten up. "During a roll call one of the prisoners said something and the guard thought he was talking back so he twisted the prisoner's hand behind his back and threw him against the wall. The guard then placed him in isolation in a tiny cell. The prisoner was moaning in pain for several days before I was asked to take him to the doctor, who diagnosed a broken arm. When I told the doctor what had happened, he wrote in his report that it was the result of the prisoner tripping. When I insisted that it was a beating, one of the male nurses made it clear to me that if I opened my mouth they would "blow my head off."? After Haim went public he was harassed and regarded by many of his friends as a traitor. The military said it would look into his revelations and an official investigation was promised. The commander of the facility was removed from office. It must be remembered, however, that there are many more facilities like this one in Israel, and there are many prisoners who are simply unaccounted for. In additon, one should not forget the hostages Israel has kidnapped from Lebanon and who are held as pawns for future exchanges with the Hezbollah. Five such Lebanese hostages were released recently. One was 31 years old and had been in captivity-without trial and without committing a crime-since he was 16-15 years ago. Haim's exposé made very few ripples in Israel. Is it possible that the well of Israeli compassion has totally run dry? The most worrisome element of this story is the uncalled for and unnecessary cruelty displayed by what one can only regard as "regular Israelis." It appears to vindicate the many predictions made by psychologists that the prolonged Israeli occupation of the territories might rob the Israelis of their souls. When and if peace is achieved, and hopefully that day is near, where will "the new Israeli" release all his stored up cruelty, hatred and violence? Already the rates of violence by Israelis against Israelis, starting with their own families, may be the final revenge of Israel's hundreds of thousands of innocent victims.

IslamicAwakening.com

The Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wa'sallam said:



"The Muslim is a unique Ummah among the whole of mankind:

Their Land is ONE, their War is ONE, their Peace is ONE,

Their Honour is ONE and their Trust is ONE."

[Ahmad]

Part 3: Massacres against Palestinians

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim


In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

Part 3: Massacres against Palestinians


Ibrahim Ghosheh

Contents

Part 1: The 1948 Nakba : Facts and Lessons

Part 2: Israeli acts of aggression against Al-Aqsa

Part 3: Massacres against Palestinians

Part 4: A Message From Hell - Victor Ostrovsky

Part 5: History of Aggression

Part 6: Conclusion

Ahallal-Kufru bil-Islaami Dhaiman Yatoolu 'Alaihi lid-Deen an-Naheebu Fa Haqqun Dhaa'iun Wa Himan Mubaahun Wa Saifun Qaati'un Wa Damun Sabeebu al-Kufr, detrimentally substitutes Islaam for itself While the wailing for the Deen is only prolonged So the rights are being lost, sanctuary being made lawful [to the enemies] And the sword is penetrating [the flesh] while the blood is spilt The following list of massacres is by no means exhaustive, but they reflect the nature of the Zionist occupation of Palestine and show that massacres and expulsions were not aberrations that happen in any war, but organized atrocities with only one aim, that is to have a Zionist state which is 'goyim rein' List of Massacres committed by Zionists against Palestinians: Yehida Massacre 13 December 1947: men of the Arab village of Yehiday (near Petah Tekva, the first Zionist settlement to be established) met at the local coffee house when they saw a British Army patrol enter the village, they were reassured especially that Jewish terrorists had murdered 12 Palestinians the previous day. The four cars stopped in front of the cafe house and out stepped men dressed in khaki uniforms and steel helmets. However, it soon became apparent that they had not come to protect the villagers. With machine guns they sprayed bullets into the crowd gathered in the coffee house. Some of the invaders placed bombs next to Arab homes while other disguised terrorists tossed grenades at civilians. For a while it seemed as if the villagers would be annihilated but soon a real British patrol arrived to foil the well-organized killing raid. The death toll of 7 Arab civilans could have been much higher. Earlier the same day 6 Arabs were killed and 23 wounded when home made bombs were tossed at a crowd of Arabs standing near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. In Jaffa another bomb killed six more Arabs and injured 40. Khisas Massacre 18 December 1947: Two carloads of Haganah terrorists drove through the village of Khisas (on the Lebanese Syrian border) firing machine guns and throwing grenades. 10 Arab civilians were killed in the raid. Qazaza Massacre 19 December 1947: 5 Arab children were murdered when Jewish terrorists blew up the house of the village Mukhtar. ash-Sheikh Village Massacre 1 January 1948: On that night around two hundred Zionists armed with hand grenades and machine guns sneaked into a small village called al-Shaikh village (5km South East of Haifa). The attackers came through the southern hills (most possibly from Nisher Jewish settlement which lies about 5Km south of the village). They attacked the houses on the edges of the village with hand-grenades and finished off with machine-guns killing around 40 of the Palestinians inhabitants of the village, mostly women and children. Deir Yassin Massacre 9-10 April 1948: The massacre that became the symbol of Zionist aggression fo the Palestinians as well as Zionist treachery. The Mukhtar of the village had agreed with the Zionists to provide information on the movement of strangers in the area as well as other intelligence provided their village is spared. The Zionists were not to keep their side of the promise. In an operation, which was called Operation Unity, the Haganah co-operated with the Irgun and the Stern Gang is this operation. At 4:30 am on Friday 9th April 1948 surrounded the village, which was overlooked by two Jewish settlements, Givat Shaul and Montefiore. For two days Zionist terrorists killed men women and children, raped women and stole their jewellery. A chilling account of the massacre is given by a Red Cross doctor who arrived at the village on the second day and saw himself -- the mopping up as one of the terrorists put it to him. He says that the mopping up- had been done with machine guns, then grenades and finished of with knives. Women's bellies were cut open and babies were butchered in the hands of their helpless mothers. Around 250 people were murdered in cold blood. Of them 25 pregnant women were bayoneted in the abdomen while still alive. 52 children were maimed under the eyes of their own mothers, and they were slain and their heads cut off. The Jewish Agency and the commander of the British ground troops knew of the massacre while it was going on, however, no one intervened to stop it. Naser ad-Din Massacre 13-14 April 1948, a contingent of Lehi and Irgon entered this village (near Tiberias) entered the village on the night of 13 April dressed as Arab fighters. Upon their entrance to the village the people went out to greet them, the terrorists met them with fire, killing every single one of them. Only 40 people survived. All the houses of the village were raised to the ground. Beir Daras Massacre 21 May 1948, after a number of failed attempts to occupy this village, the Zionists mobilized a large contingent and surrounded the village. The people of Beit Daras decided that women and children should leave. As women and children left the village they were met by the Zionist army who massacred them despite the fact that they could see they were women and children fleeing the fighting. Dahmash Mosque Massacre 11 July 1948, after the Israeli 89th Commando Battalion lead by Moshe Dayan occupied Lydda, the Israelis told Arabs through loudspeakers that if they went into a certain mosque they would be safe. In retaliation for a hand grenade attack after the surrender that killed several Israeli soldiers, 80-100 Palestinians were massacred in the mosque; their bodies lay decomposing for 10 days in the mid-summer heat. The mosque still stands abandoned today. This massacre spread fear and panic among the Arab population of Lydda and Ramle, who were then ordered to march out of these towns after they were stripped of all personal belonging by Israeli soldiers. Yitzak Rabin, Brigade Commander then says: - There was no way of avoiding the use of force and warning shots in order to make the inhabitants march ten to fifteen miles to the point where they met up with the legion-. Most of the 60,000 inhabitants of Lyda and Ramble came to refugee camps near Ramallah, around 350 lost their lives on the way through dehydration and son stroke. Many survived by drinking their own urine. The conditions in the refugee camps were to claim more lives. Dawayma Massacre 29 October 1948, the following is the testimony of a soldier who participated in the occupation of the village of Dawayma (in the Haifa subdistrict):-.. They killed between 80 to 100 Arab men women and children. To kill children they fractured their heads with sticks. There was not one home left without corpses .... One commander ordered a soldier to bring two women into a building he was about to blow up... Another soldier prided himself on having raped an Arab women before shooting her to death...-. The massacre was perpetrated by the 89th Battalion, the authors of Lydda massacre. Sharafat Massacre 7 Febraury 1951, Israeli soldiers crossed the armistice line to this village (5Km from Jerusalem) and blew up the houses of the Mukhtar and his neighbors. 10 were killed (2 elderly men, 3 women and 5 children) and 8 were wounded. Kibya Massacre 14 October 1953, 9:30 pm about 700 regular Israeli troops attacked the border Jordanian village of Kibya, north west of Jerusalem. Using mortars, machine guns, rifles and explosives they blew up 42 houses, the local schools and the mosque. Every man woman and child found by these criminals was killed. 75 innocent villagers were murdered in cold blood. The raids were ordered by Ariel Sharon. Kafr Qasem Massacre 29 October 1956 Israeli frontier guards started at 4pm what they called a tour of the Triangle Villages. They told the Mukhtars of those villages that the curfew from that day onwards was to start from 5pm instead of 6pm. They reached Kafr Qasem around 4:45 and informed the Mukhtar protested that there are about 400 villagers working outside the village and there is not enough time to inform them of the new times. An officer assured him that they would be taken care of. Then the guards waited at the entrance to the village 43 Kafr Qasem inhabitants were massacred in cold blood by the army as they returned from work, their crime was violating a curfew they did not know about. On the northern entrance of the village 3 were killed and 2 were killed inside of the village. Amongst the dead were men, women, and children. Lutanat Danhan was touring the area in his jeep reporting the massacre, on his wireless he said "minus 15 Arabs" after a while his message on the radio to his H.Q. was "it is difficult to count". as-Sammou' Massacre 13 November 1966, Israeli forces raided this village, destroyed 125 houses, the village clinic and school as well as 15 houses in a neighboring village. 18 people were killed and 54 wounded. Sabra and Shatila Massacre 15-18 September 1982, after the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon Phalangist puppets of the Israelis massacred over 3000 Palestinian men, women and children under the watchful eyes of the Israeli army. A body count by the International committee of the Red Cross revealed 2750 dead, the real figure is thought to be much higher and may never be known. Oyon Qara Massacre (RISHON LEZION): 20 May 1990, an Israeli soldier lined up Palestinian labors and murdered seven of them with a sub-machine gun. 13 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in subsequent demonstrations at the massacre. al-Aqsa Mosque Massacre 8 October 1990, Israeli police opened fire on worshipers in al-Aqsa mosque killing 22 people. Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre 25 February 1994, A Jewish terrorist, from Keryat Arba' settlement massacred 60 worshipers in the Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil (Hebron) and wounded about 200. Later massive demonstrations took to the streets of Palestine and the Zionist army responded by life ammunitions killing 23 and wounding hundreds more. Reports indicate there were 3 Jewish settler gunners, not only one. The Jabalia Massacre 28 March 1994, A Jewish undercover police opened fire on Palestinian activists brutally killing 6 and injuring 49. Some of the wounded activists were taken out of their cars and shot in their heads to death. Eretz Checkpoint Massacre 17 July 1994, Palestinian sources reported that the occupation forces had committed Sunday morning a disgusting massacre against Palestinian workers at Eretz Checkpoint. Eyewitnesses and Israeli sources reported that 11 Palestinians have been shot dead and 200 injured. Israeli sources also reported that 21 Israeli soldiers including 1 settler were injured. Two soldiers were shot by bullets, one died. As reported by Palestinian and Israeli sources, the scene was described as a war zone which lasted for 6 hours. Four Israeli tanks and helicopters were brought by the occupation forces, while number of settlers were taken part firing at Palestinians. Protest had spread all over the Occupied Territories. In Gaza, Palestinians raised black flags and called for revenge. In Ramallah, shops closed while several clashes were reported. Several clashes were reported at Hebron University yesterday, and today two Palestinians were shot in Hebron. These are just some of the massacres committed against the Palestinians by the Zionists. If the raids on southern Lebanon old and new were to be taken account the true magnitude of Zionist crimes against humanity could start to emerge. If one were to go into the gruesome details of the atrocities committed in 1948 the -mopping up operatons -, the deliberate humiliation and massacre of Arabs and the desecration of the holy places of both Muslim and Christian as well as the looting of these holy places and personal property by the Israeli army and settlers; one might just start to appreciate what Zionism is all about.

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The Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wa'sallam said:



"The Muslim is a unique Ummah among the whole of mankind:

Their Land is ONE, their War is ONE, their Peace is ONE,

Their Honour is ONE and their Trust is ONE."

[Ahmad]

Part 2: Israeli acts of aggression against Al-Aqsa

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim



In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

Part 2: Israeli acts of aggression against Al-Aqsa

Ibrahim Ghosheh

Contents

Part 1: The 1948 Nakba : Facts and Lessons

Part 2: Israeli acts of aggression against Al-Aqsa

Part 3: Massacres against Palestinians

Part 4: A Message From Hell - Victor Ostrovsky

Part 5: History of Aggression

Part 6: Conclusion

The "Farthest Mosque" or better known as "al-Masjid al-Aqsaa" is the holiest sanctuary, after al-Haramain. Allah Subhaanahu wa-Ta'aala mentioned this Masjid in the Noble Qur`aan by saying: "Glorified (and Exalted) be He (Allah) [above all that (evil) they associate with Him]. Who took His slave (Muhammad SAW) for a journey by night from Al-Masjid-al-Haram (at Makkah) to the farthest mosque (in Jerusalem), the neighbourhood whereof We have blessed, in order that We might show him (Muhammad SAW) of Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, lessons, signs, etc.). Verily, He is the All-Hearer, the All-Seer" (al-Israa` 1) Unfortunately, this site has been occupied by the invaders for half a century, while al-Aqsaa remains chained up by the shackles of politics of the Jews, and bogus promises of our leaders. As a poet said... Uthakkiru Ikhwati fee Kulli Ardhin - Bi Anna al-Qudsa Dannasahal-Yahoodu Fa ya 'Ajaban Bimadha an-Nawmu 'Anhaa - Wa Qad La'ibat Bi Masjidihal-Quroodu. I remind my brothers in every land - that al-Quds is being defiled by the Jews... Then how amazing is it, that we are asleep regarding this - When the its Mosque is being played around by the monkeys... Wa HasbunAllah Huwa Ni'mal Wakeel (Allah is Sufficient for us, and He is the Best Disposer of affairs) Twenty-six years have passed since Messianic Jews tried to and partially succeeded in burning-down Islam's third holiest sanctuary, the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. The nefarious sacrilege was by no means, as the Israeli government then suggested, and isolated act committed by a deranged man who acted on his own. Quite the contrary, the morbid Israeli designs against the sacred Muslim Shrine show that diabolical feat was a deliberate collective act of aggression carried out with the unmistakable acquiescence of the Israeli political establishment and the active encouragement of much of the world's Jewry and their fundamentalist Christian allies. The following is a list of the acts of aggression and desecration against Al- Aqsa Mosque since June 7,1967: June 7,1967: The occupation authorities confiscated the keys of the Western Gate known as Bab El-Magharba immediately after Israeli troops seized the town from the fleeing Jordanians. June 9,1967: The congregational Friday prayer was not held on orders from the occupation authorities. That was the first time the Juma'a prayer didn't take place since the liberation of Jerusalem from the hands of the Crusades in 1167 AD on October 19,1990, The Juma'a prayer was delayed for two hours because the the occupation authorities denied Muslim worshiper entry to the Haram compound. June 21,1969: An Australian-born terrorist, Denis Michael Rohan, entered the mosque and set the magnificent Nurrukin Zinki Mihrab on fire. The fire gutted the unique Mihrab, which has restored. The sacrilegious act against the mosque was condemned world-wide, but was praised by wide segments of world Jewry and Christian fundamentalists who view the creation of Israeli in Palestine as a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy and a precedence to the second advent of Jesus. November 16, 1969: The Israeli occupation authorities seized the Fakhriyya Corner on the south-western side of the Haram Al-Sharif. August 14,1970: The Gershon Salmon group, and ultra-fanatic group dedicated to the so-called rebuilding of the Temple of Solomon of thesite of Al-Aqsa Mosque after it is demolished, forcibly entered the premises of the Haram, but were repulsed by Muslims. The confrontation resulted in tens of worshiper being injure by Israeli troop gunfire. April 19,1980: A group of Jewish Rabbis and sages held a semi-secret conference devoted to exploring ways and means "to liberate the Temple Mount from Muslim hands". August 28,1980: The Israeli occupation authorities dug a tunnel right underneath the Mosque. March 30,1982: Numerous leters were sent Muslim Waqf authorities urging them to abandon the Temple Mount and warning them of the dire consequence of their "usurpation of our Temple". The letters were written in Hebrew, English, French ,Spanish and Polish. May 20,1982: Several Zionist organizations sent death threats to Waqf officials. April 11,1982: An Israeli soldier named Allen Goodman stormed the interior of the Mosque, spraying worshipers with bullets from his M-16 assault rifle, killing and wounding over 60 Palestinians. March 26,1983: The main entrance to the Jerusalem's Waqf department collapsed due to Israeli excavations underneath. August 21,1985: The Israeli police permitted Jewish extremists to hold prayers within the confines of the Haram premises. August 4, 1986: A group of Rabbis issued final ruling allowing Jews to pray at the Haram Al-Sharif, and demanded the establishment of a Synagogue in the area. May 12,1988: Israeli soldiers opened fire on a peaceful Muslim march at the Haram, Killing and wounding about a hundred Palestinians. August 8,1990: The Israeli authorities committed a grisly massacre at the Al- Aqsa Mosque, Killing 22 worshipers and injuring over 200. And on July 25, 1995, the Israeli High Court of Justice issued a ruling, allowing Jews to pray at the "Temple Mount". The decision sparked off widespread protests among Muslims.

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The Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wa'sallam said:



"The Muslim is a unique Ummah among the whole of mankind:

Their Land is ONE, their War is ONE, their Peace is ONE,

Their Honour is ONE and their Trust is ONE."

[Ahmad]