An ere is another interesting reading from the forces of "Traditionalism":
From Hamas, With Hatred
20 September 2001
In a long and gloating open letter entitled “To America,” the Gaza-based al-Risala, affiliated with
the Hamas, states that because of the tendency of “Dick Cheney and his girlfriend Condoleezza
Rice” to gloat at Arab misfortune, “We stand in line and beg Allah to give you to drink from the
cup of humiliation and behold, heaven has answered.” The terrorist attacks on New York and
Washington were “the sword of vengeance” that has “reached the neck of your honor and
shamed you… You cannot but realize that the perpetrator will strike again and again if you
continue with your corruption...”
The letter called on America to face a litany of crimes it has committed and to reevaluate its
policies in the Islamic and Third Worlds. The letter bids America remember its actions in
Vietnam, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Korea, regarding slavery in America and even the conquest
of Native American lands. The al-Risala article asks, “America, Oh sword of oppression,
arrogance and sin; do you remember how you crushed the humanity of man?” America “planted
in the hearts of all men and animals the seedling of hatred… [and] never considered that the day
would come when the saplings would grow and put out your eyes, even if those eyes were
placed at the top of the World Trade Center, among the clouds… the thorns have reached the
eyes of your strong Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, who thought that he was too strong
to be hurt by the thorns of vengeance for what he did with his own hands…”
Turning to the local venue of the Middle East, the open letter asks Americans to consider
“…how the children in the al-´Amariya [shelter in Iraq], or at Kana [in Lebanon], sinned? Why
do you pour this continuing oppression on the head of Baghdad, as you do on the head of
Jerusalem, on the head of Jenin, and on every head with two eyes that do not see what you see
and do not walk the path of justice that
your sinning hands paved for every idiotic eunuch that you crown His Eminence or His Royal
Highness?” Furthermore, the Hamas paper enumerates several American weapons systems and
asks, “why do you give these weapons to any murderer, war criminal, and enemy of humanity,
like Karadzic, Shamir, and Sharon?”
Finally, al-Risala turns to Israeli military operations to rout terrorism in Israel, saying, “They
destroy our shacks. What happened tonight in Jenin [the Israeli incursion] is not very different
than what happened to you.” Indeed, America is the primary source of Arab losses at the hands
of the Israelis, for “…it has reached the point where you tightened the rope around our entity and
opened the gates of the Pentagon so that every Jew could equip himself with a knife in order to
slaughter us!”
Repeating a theme that appears again and again in the writings of Arab and Moslem apologists
for terrorism, the Hamas newspaper refers to “humiliation” of “arrogant” America. “You must
think, America, whether you are capable of silencing your extremism, your impudence, and your
arrogance!” In reference to the American measures taken to prevent possible terrorist attacks,
the open letter rhetorically asks, “Do the giants fear and flee, as the oppressed do, Oh
America?” Then, again tying America to the Israeli-Arab conflict, “America, it transpires that
that you are weaker than the weak, and that you are as wretched as any refugee that you forced
to flee with his children, his wife, and the clothes on his back from a village that was once on the
coast of Palestine.” According to al-Risala, the intelligence failure of the CIA and America’s
“second eye, the Mossad,” occurred because “men of honor have caps of
invisibility and when they don them, they dress you in garments of horror and humiliation.”
The Hamas’ open letter to America ultimately reaches the obvious conclusion, “Have you asked
yourself who the real perpetrator is? Allow me to answer you: Yes, it is you, America!” |
