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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
MEMRI: Following the Shalit Deal - Hamas-Affiliated Columnists: There Will Be More Abductions; Fatah-Affiliated Website: Shalit a Monster Who Carried On the Legacy of His Ancestors, the Apes and Pigs; Al-Ahram: No to Further Abductions

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MEMRI Special Dispatch |4212|October 18, 2011

Hamas/Palestinians/Egypt/Jihad & Terrorism Studies Project/Lantos Archives
on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial

Following the Shalit Deal - Hamas-Affiliated Columnists: There Will Be More
Abductions; Fatah-Affiliated Website: Shalit a Monster Who Carried On the
Legacy of His Ancestors, the Apes and Pigs; Al-Ahram: No to Further
Abductions

Following the signing of the deal in which Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was
to be exchanged for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners, many articles on
Hamas-affiliated websites called the deal a victory and stated that it
proved the effectiveness of the strategy of resistance. They urged to kidnap
more Israeli soldiers in order to liberate the remaining Palestinian
prisoners.

A website affiliated with Fatah published a venomous article about Shalit
which described him as a murderer and a monster who "carried on the legacy
of his fathers, the apes and pigs."

On the other hand, an editorial in the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram
called on the Palestinians to honor the deal and its positive outcomes, but
to refrain from urging and engaging in further abductions. It called on
Israel to honor the deal as well, and to refrain from re-arresting the
liberated prisoners or seeking retribution against them.[1]

Fatah-Affiliated Website: Shalit Spent His Time in Bars and Brothels, and
Engaged in Robbery, Murder, and Rape

An article published on a Fatah-affiliated website, by journalist Sami Foda,
stated: "[Gilad Shalit is] a young man who spent his time in bars and
brothels, playing games and pampering himself. He enjoyed the pleasures of a
land not his own. He went around robbing, stealing, torching, raping,
trampling, and desecrating the soil of this land that is not his own. He
viciously strove to shed the blood of the martyrs, killed innocent people,
shelled the homes of innocent people with tanks, destroying them without
shame, mercy, or pangs of conscience, a stupid murderer who did not mind
killing our elderly, our men, our youth, and our women, and even our poor
children, [so] pure and innocent.

"This soldier was a waif born in a shelter as a result of the deterioration
and disintegration of Israeli society. A Zionist soldier, he became seeped
with Zionism to the bone... [He is] a gullible [boy], the genetic grandson
of the Zionist leaders by virtue of his affiliation with, and loyalty to,
his Nazi leaders. This monster joined the army of Zionist gangs, to carry on
the legacy of his fathers, the apes and pigs of the Haganah, Irgun, Stern,
and Palmach organizations, in order to carry out the orders of his fascist
masters. That was the Zionist soldier Gilad Shalit, 19 years-old when he was
captured by the Palestinian resistance.

"This incompetent soldier became the most prized soldier in all the armies
of the world. He entered the annals of history through the widest gate, and
his name went down in the Guinness Book of World Records... The world was in
turmoil as the Arab leaders, the West, and the monstrous mini-state [Israel]
waged a five-year publicity and marketing campaign throughout the world in
an attempt to liberate the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit... He was a focus of
interest for journalists and political and military analysts in all the
electronic and printed media, while the conscience of those flaccid leaders
remained unmoved by the [plight of] our courageous heroes and glorious
prisoners hidden away in the dungeons of the enemy's strongholds."[2]

Hamas Official: Goodbye Shalit, Hello New Prisoner

In an article posted on the website of Al-Aqsa TV, Dr. Mustafa Yousef
Al-Liddawi, formerly Hamas's representative in Syria and Lebanon, expressed
hopes that more Israeli soldiers would be abducted to replace Shalit:
"Today, as we say goodbye to Shalit, we hope to welcome [back] all our
prisoners, to free all our prisoners, to end their period of incarceration
in the [jails] of the occupation, and to prevent the arrest of many others
and the return [of the freed prisoners] to the shackles of captivity. As we
say goodbye to Shalit, we hope to welcome a new guest, to capture a new
soldier, to hurt the enemy in a way that will humiliate and distress him, to
pull his soldiers from their tanks and even shoot down their planes, to
destroy their vehicles and to lead them, handcuffed, to our jails. This, in
order to... liberate those whom the enemy is [still] holding in his prisons
and whom he refuses to free because they have shed his blood, humiliated
him, killed the best of his soldiers, rubbed the noses of his crack units in
the dirt, and forced his leaders to surrender and accept their terms.
Goodbye, Shalit, and hello to the new prisoner who will replace you and by
means of whom we will humiliate your army and your leadership. We will not
surrender, give up or disdain [our duty] until we get back the last of our
prisoners and destroy the last of the detention facilities that the enemy
has constructed on our own soil..."[3]

Hamas Columnists: Shalit Will Not Be the Last Hostage

Many writers affiliated with Hamas likewise called to abduct more Israeli
soldiers, stating that the Shalit deal will not be the last and that it has
proved the efficacy of the path of resistance.

Iyad Al-Qara, a columnist for the Hamas-affiliated daily Falastin, wrote:
"After the imminent completion of the 'Loyalty to the Free' deal [Hamas's
name for the Shalit deal], the resistance will be able to stage further
attacks... and repeat 'Operation Fading Illusion' [Hamas's name for Shalit's
abduction] so as to capture more soldiers or settlers in order to liberate
all the prisoners from the jails of the occupation. This [is an effective
strategy], especially considering that any new abduction will be carried out
and completed swiftly, because the [present] deal has laid down the
framework for negotiating with the occupation for the liberation of all
[our] prisoners from its jails."

Falastin columnist Hisham Munawwar wrote: "The 'Loyalty to the Free' deal,
in which the largest number of Palestinian prisoners ever to be exchanged
for a single soldier will be liberated from the prisons of the occupation,
is not the first [deal] in the history of the exchange deals, and, as the
resistance factions have promised, it will not be the last, Allah willing,
until every Palestinian prisoner has been liberated... This deal proves that
resistance is the only way to restore the Palestinian rights and liberate
the prisoners..."[4]

Kamal Jaber wrote on a Hamas-affiliated website: "True, Gilad had many
friends who trod the same path before him, and underwent the same experience
at the hands of the Al-Qassam [Brigades]: Avi Sasportas, Ilan Sa'adon,
Nissim Toledano, Yaron Chen, Sharon Edri, and many others. Each one of them
tried to write the winning chapter in the story of Al-Qassam, but Shalit had
the tremendous fortune [to be the one who got] to tell this magnificent
tale. Bless the Al-Qassam [Brigades]. May the heroic prisoners enjoy [their
freedom], and may we have a new Shalit every year."[5]

Journalist Tamer Al-Sharif wrote in his column in Falastin: "This deal will
not be the last, and will spark much activity and intense competition among
the Palestinian factions, [each of them] trying to repeat it."[6]

Article in Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood Daily: Hamas Must Capture a New
Hostage

Jamal Al-Shawahin, a regular columnist for Al-Sabil, the daily of the
Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, wrote: "The Hamas movement must secure a new
prisoner in order to free additional [Palestinian] prisoners from the jails
of the occupation, because those who will not be released as part of the
Shalit deal now feel and understand that their salvation depends on [the
capture of] a new prisoner. This great national duty must be fulfilled, if
not by Hamas then by any other organization...

"The latest [prisoner] exchange deal was great and magnificent... a victory
for the Hamas movement and the entire Palestinian people. It confirms that
continuing the resistance is the [right] path and option [to take] until the
Palestinian rights are restored in full, without exception...

"The freed prisoners will be birds of freedom and torches to light the fire
of resistance, and they are the incontrovertible proof that the Palestinian
right[s] will only be restored through resistance..."[7]

[1] Al-Ahram (Egypt), October 16, 2011.
[2] Alaahd.com, October 16, 2011.
[3] Aqsatv.ps, October 16, 2011.
[4] Falastin (Gaza), October 15, 2011.
[5] Palestine-info.info, October 13, 2011.
[6] Falastin (Gaza), October 14, 2011.
[7] Al-Sabil (Jordan), October 14, 2011.

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