"Why don’t Israeli air forces bomb Hamas’s terror
sites? Israel knows them very well. Why do they only bomb civilians?”
“Hamas is a Jihadist terrorist movement that does not differ
much from ISIS. It attacks Israel and hides for the world to watch Israel
strike at civilians” (Amany al Hayat)
‘Hamas continues to trade in the blood of the innocent
people in Gaza and it has rejected calls for a cease-fire.’ (Ahmed Al-Jarallah,
Arab Times, Kuwait.)
‘it is up to the Palestinians to get rid of their illusions
and sincerely try to contemplate the benefits brought forth by Egypt’s
initiative.’ (Kuwait’s Arab Times, Editor-in-Chief Ahmad Al-Jarallah criticised
Hamas’s rejection of a ceasefire)
‘Hamas is playing … a
PR game at the expense of the people who are living in Gaza. Where are the
journalists [that need to] tell Hamas and [Islamic] Jihad to stop? Do you find
it normal that terrorists hide under civilian houses and by [doing] that hurt
the same people that they are trying to protect? Do you think that this is
something that is normal, that these terrorists are actually making the
Palestinian people lose their lives?’ (Lucy Aharish, i24news, Arab mainstream
news anchor)
‘Hamas is more isolated than ever. The organization is
revolting against the legitimate Palestinian leadership, while it is perceived
globally as a criminal organization raining rockets down onto Israel.’ (Saudi
Arabian newspaper Al Watan.)
‘Such idiotic
decision-making [by Hamas] … forces the Gaza Strip and its people, as well as
the entire Arab Nation in its entirety, to pay a very steep price in
fragmentation, in humiliation, in martyrs and, unfortunately, in blood – shed
in vein, with no prospects for victory.’ (Khaled Salah, Al-Nahar TV)
‘Why [was] Hamas
successful in spreading a sophisticated network of tunnels and fail to build
simple bomb shelters …? Is Hamas willing to sacrifice Palestinians to get more
Arab and foreign financial aid … Hamas leaders are jet setters.’ (Abdulateef
Al-Mulhim, arabnews.com)
‘The vast majority of
the countries participating in [the Arab League] summit consider Hamas to be a
terrorist organization. These countries pray – all those foreign ministers are
praying – that Israel will manage to get rid of Hamas once and for all.’ (Arab
journalist, Abd Al-Bari Atwan.)
‘Hamas’s isolation, its diplomatic impotence, its
disconnection from the [Palestinian] Authority and rebellion against anyone who
is a legitimate representative of the Palestinian people makes it appear as a
criminal in the eyes of the rest of the world.’(Saudi newspaper Al Watan)
‘We are not prepared to sacrifice even a single hair from
the eyebrow of an Egyptian soldier or civilian, for the sake of Hamas … They
goad people into fighting, terrorism, and violence, under the pretext of
“Jihad,” while they themselves sit in luxury.’ (Maher Shahin, Al-Tahrir TV)
‘Thank you Netanyahu and may God give us more [people] like
you to destroy Hamas!’ (Azza Sami, deputy
editor Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram.)
" I love my country and I hate Hamas. I thank not only
Netanyahu but any person who wipes Hamas out of existence. There is a (anti)
Hamas campaign against all those who speak about their [Hamas’] stupidity and
idiocy. I’m proud to be one of those. I pray for the death of all Hamas members,
and everyone who loves Hamas” (Azza Sami)
"Hamas ‘don’t understand that peace, too, is something
you must struggle for with all your might … Therefore it is necessary to
persist with efforts to impose peace. No other option exists. True resistance
is resistance to illusions and false hopes, and no longer leaning on the past in
building the future." (Abdallah Hamid Al-Din, Saudi writer in London's Al-Hayat )
Israel's Channel Two praised an Egyptian TV host who called
on the Egyptian Army to explicitly help the Israeli army to eliminate Hamas for
supporting ousted President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, calling Hamas,
calling it an "internal occupier, not less dangerous than a foreign
occupier".
A group of Egyptian journalists and writers gloated over
targeting Hamas and condemned its reaction to the Israeli aggression by firing
missiles at Israeli cities, claiming it was "an attempt to embarrass Egypt
and President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi".
“Israeli air force
bombarded 12 terrorist sites in Gaza,” deeming targeted civilian neighbourhood
as “terror sites.” (Egypt’s cable channel CBC, owned by Mohammed al-Amin described
the Israeli targets in Gaza as terrorist targets.)
"The last thing Egypt needs now is to drag its armed
forces into military operations outside its borders. Hamas would be delusional
to believe that Egypt would play the same role played by President Morsi during
the aggression in 2012; because the great relationship between Hamas and the
Muslim Brotherhood no longer exists, and Hamas does not deserve the Egyptian
support. We should not leave the Palestinian people in Gaza victims of the
Israeli aggression and prey to the aggressive policies of Hamas towards its
neighbours." (Imad Eddin Adeed Adib, Al-Watan)
"Sorry Gazans, I cannot support you until you rid
yourselves of Hamas." Adel Nehaman, Egyptian El-Watan)
“Gazans are not men. If they were men they would revolt
against Hamas. Hamas and Hamas’ men go to hell. Gazans must rebel against Hamas
today. If they don’t, then they deserve to be bombed. If Gazans revolt against
Hamas, Israel will stop bombing them and the Egyptian army would support them
militarily to eliminate this terror movement. Hamas provoked the Israelis by
abducting the three Israeli civilians. Israel merely retaliated.” (Star presenter of the Al-Faraeen TV channel,
Tawfik Okasha)
"I'm telling the Israeli army, the Israeli people and
the Israeli leaders: You are men," (Tawfiq Okasha praising Israel's
assault on Gaza)
“The Egyptian people know exactly who they are facing, and
understand that there is no alternative to employing the Egyptian army to
strike terror cells in Gaza and destroy Hamas in a military operation." (Hayat
al-Dardiri, TV presenter Egypt Today)
“Al-Qassam Brigades are to be blamed for the Palestinian
deaths.” (Ousama Mounir,Egyptian TV presenter)
“Egypt should treat
Palestinians at the terminal (Rafah border post) and not allow them in." (Former
MP Mohammed Abu Hamed)
“The standard of living for a Gazan citizen is much higher
than that of an Egyptian citizen. The poor in Egypt are more in need than the
poor in the Gaza Strip. Let Qatar spend as much as it wants on the Gaza Strip.
We should not send anything that Egyptians are in need of.” (Al-Bashayer
newspaper on the dispatch 500 tons of food and medical aid to Gaza)
“No Arab country has done for the Palestinians as Egypt has.
Hamas should apologize for the 1000 tunnels that were used to smuggle the
resources of Egypt. They all have their own planes and accounts in Swiss
banks." (Mustafa Shardi, journalist.)
“The Israeli occupation is better than the rule of Hamas in
Gaza.” (Egyptian journalist Gamal Fahmy)
Hamas and al-Qassam Brigades “are not our brothers, neither
Muslims, they are the enemy...strike every place in Gaza, it is the right of
our children.” On Palestinians who want to cross into Egypt for medical reasons
, “we don’t want anyone of them, those who are dying, let them die there.” (TV presenter Ahmad Moussa)
