În aceste zile, Palestina lăcrimează mai mult decît de obicei.
A pierdut un fiu dintr-o familie exemplară, dedicată păcii şi propăşirii celui mai asuprit popor din lume.
Ştiu la ce va gîndiţi. Vampirii sionişti l-au omorît înainte de termen.
E vorba despre termenul împlinirii oricărui destin nobil de palestinian, martiriul de shaheed, cînd agresorii sionişti sînt miniaturizaţi în sute de bucăţi de tehnologia palestiniană high-tech, iar shaheedul ia calea unui rendez-vous etern în paradis, unde zeci de virgine sint permanent disponibile să răsplătească vitejia şi pioşenia nestrămutate.

Nu şi nu. Acest tînăr promiţător şi cu o educaţie aleasă a comis cea mai gravă crimă. S-a convertit la creştinism.

A moment before beginning his supper, Masab, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, glances at the friend who has accompanied him to the restaurant where we met. They whisper a few words and then say grace, thanking God and Jesus for putting food on their plates.

It takes a few seconds to digest this sight: The son of a Hamas MP who is also the most popular figure in that extremist Islamic organization, a young man who assisted his father for years in his political activities, has become a rank-and-file Christian. „I’m now called Joseph,” he says at the outset.

Masab knows that he has little hope of returning to visit the Holy Land in this lifetime.

„I know that I’m endangering my life and am even liable to lose my father, but I hope that he’ll understand this and that God will give him and my family patience and willingness to open their eyes to Jesus and to Christianity. Maybe one day I’ll be able to return to Palestine and to Ramallah with Jesus, in the Kingdom of God.”

Nor does he attempt to hide his affection for Israel, or his abhorrence of everything representing the surroundings in which he grew up: the nation, the religion, the organization.

„Send regards to Israel, I miss it. I respect Israel and admire it as a country,” he says.

„You Jews should be aware: You will never, but never have peace with Hamas. Islam, as the ideology that guides them, will not allow them to achieve a peace agreement with the Jews. They believe that tradition says that the Prophet Mohammed fought against the Jews and that therefore they must continue to fight them to the death.”

Is that the justification for the suicide attacks?

„More than that. An entire society sanctifies death and the suicide terrorists. In Palestinian culture a suicide terrorist becomes a hero, a martyr. Sheikhs tell their students about the ‘heroism of the shaheeds.’”

And yet, in spite of the criticism of the place he left, California can’t make the longings disappear.

„I miss Ramallah,” he says. „People with an open mind. … I mainly miss my mother, my brothers and sisters, but I know that it will be very difficult for me to return to Ramallah soon.”

Hamas’ Christian convert: I’ve left a society that sanctifies terror

Dar Gaza e bărbată şi merge mai departe. Acest trădător va arde sigur în flăcările iadului.

Speranţa stă în excelentele tabere de vară construite cu fonduri donate generos de ONU şi Uniunea Europeană, unde tinerele vlăstare se antrenează pentru o viaţă virtuoasă şi eroică sub supravegherea părintească a instructorilor Hamas. Aici, în aceste oaze de recreere şi fortificare, cei mai capabili copii palestinieni învaţă tainele lansatoarelor de rachete, a luptei corp la corp, cum să mînuiască delicatele veste de autodetonare şi multe alte tradiţii populare transmise din generaţie în generaţie.

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