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Hamas calls for ''sea of blood''
Hamas on Wednesday called on all its cells of activists in the Palestinian territories and Israel to prepare to unleash a "sea of blood" against Israel, the group's armed wing said in a statement. That's pretty bloodcurdling... "We call on all our groups within the 1948 borders to be ready to hit the Zionists at any place and at any time," the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades said. It said "students" of the Brigades' leader Salah Shehade, killed in an Israeli air strike late Monday, fired the group's homemade Qassam rockets at Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip overnight. Two people were slightly injured in the attacks on the settlements, the Israeli army said. Because I have a tiny little butterfly mind, I sometimes find myself wondering: are there any Qassam brigades that aren't Izzedine? Are some, for instance, "Muzzadine", or "Paradine?" "This was the first and simple answer in the sea of blood that the Zionists will see because of this crime," the group warned. "'Cuz we don't have to worry about a cycle of violence, 'cuz there ain't no sech thing as cause and effect. That's a western invention..." For his part, Hamas spokesman Mahmoud al-Zahar, said "Every Israeli, at any time and in any place, is now a target for strikes by the Palestinian resistance." Quoted by Egypt's news agency (MENA), he said "Hamas will not accept any condition for halting the resistance operations to avenge the Palestinian martyrs." Zahar stated Hamas would carry out attacks that would "teach Israel the lesson that it will have to think a thousand times before undertaking such crimes again". Zahar's a member of Hamas' politburo. Wonder if he's taken Shehadeh's place as Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-07-25 |
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