Israeli forces killed four top terrorists in Bethlehem yesterday, including Mohammed Shahade (pictured), a senior leader of PIJ – the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Get this straight: While Hamas receives Iranian support, PIJ is in effect Iran’s militia among the Palestinians -- just as Hizbullah serves Iran in Lebanon.
“Muhammad Shahade and the Islamic Jihad in Bethlehem were in direct contact with the Islamic Jihad leadership in Syria from which they received operational orders,” according to the IDF spokesman.
In this case, “leadership in Syria” means Iran.
Shah
ade was so close to Hizbullah that he was wrapped in a Hizbullah flag at his funeral. Veteran Israeli analyst Ehud Ya’ari reports that Shahade had converted to Shiite Islam. That’s an important development.
Shah
ade was so close to Hizbullah that he was wrapped in a Hizbullah flag at his funeral. Veteran Israeli analyst Ehud Ya’ari reports that Shahade had converted to Shiite Islam. That’s an important development.Palestinians are traditional Sunni Muslims. For many years suicide was not a prominent factor or religious element in the PLO’s terror war against Israel.
Ironically, Israel itself helped push the Sunni fundamentalist Hamas organization to adopt the Shi’ite Hizbullah’s suicidal and homicidal methods. In 1992, Israel deported some 400 Hamas members to Lebanon. There they were welcomed by Hizbullah who shared their theology as well as their expertise in constructing car bombs and deploying suicide bombers. Under international pressure and after a UN Security Council denunciation, Israel permitted the Hamas terrorists back into the territories after several months, and the Palestinian terror campaign took a more vicious turn.
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