Ahmed Yassin

Ahmad Ismail Hassan Yassin (Arabic: احمد ياسين; June 28, 1929 – March 22, 2004) was an imam who founded and led the terrorist organization Hamas, and gave terrorism a theological foundation and a religious stamp. He was called "Sheikh Yassin" because of his position as the leader of the Hamas movement. Eliminated by the IDF in a targeted counterattack during the second intifada.

He first joined the Muslim Brotherhood while in Egypt.

As the leader of Hamas, Yassin led a strong line against Israel, calling for its complete destruction and its replacement by an Islamic Palestinian state that would come in its place. Yassin called on the Palestinians to fight the Zionist enemy in all possible forms, to the last drop of their blood, according to the Koran's command that calls to kill and be killed, and issued fatwas permitting suicide attacks with the aim of removing the Jews from all areas of the Land of Israel "from the river to the sea."

He supported the kidnapping of soldiers, and in January 2004 he even gave the Islamic-law approval for carrying out suicide attacks by women.

"Sheikh Ahmed Yassin has been directly implicated in authorizing, directing, funding, and providing foot soldiers for Hamas terrorist operations."

Notes

• Matthew Levitt, Moderately Deadly. Washington Institute. Mar 26, 2004.

• Gil Sedan, Over the years, Sheik Yassin grew in status, violence and radicalism, JTA, March 23, .2004.

• Dzikansky, M., Kleiman, G., Slater, R. (2011). Terrorist Suicide Bombings: Attack Interdiction, Mitigation, and Response. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, [

https://books.google.com/books?id=iex_V2M2VB0C&pg=PA218 p. 218].

• Sheikh Ahmed Yassin died in an Israeli targeted killing on March 22, 2004. [1]. Terrorism Info.

• WRAP Hamas leader Yassin killed in Israeli airstrike.

AP Archive. Jul 30, 2015 YouTube

"The Mufti.. concocted a new kind of antisemitism that combined traditional Muslim antisemitism, like the anti-Jewish verses you find in the Koran, with the Nazi antisemitism that demonised Jews... His whole ideology was antisemitic and from the very beginning he targeted Jews, not Zionists."

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Lord Peel to W. Ormsby-Gore as he was preparing the royal commission report, "Though I knew there was ill-feeling between Jews and Arabs, I had not realized the depth and intensity of the hatred with which the Jews are held by the Arabs..."

"It is not Israel's settlement blocks but rather the Palestinian ideological blockade that constitutes the biggest barrier to peaceful arrangements . The Jew-hatred in this region must no longer be played down as a kind of local custom ..."

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