Hatred for Israel drives the pro-Hamas voices
What happened on October 7 was the culmination of an ongoing series of cross-border attacks by Hamas since the early 1990s, says David Saks of the SAJBD
29 October 2023 - 00:00
“Hamas has been looking forward to implement Allah’s promise whatever time it might take ... ‘The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!’”..
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