The following are excerpts from an interview with PLC member Dr. Yousef Al-Sharrafi, which aired on Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV on March 17, 2010.
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Interviewer: "There has always been killing – every occupier kills people. But the Zionist occupier [not only] kills people, but also destroys stones, destroys the Islamic holy places, destroys the trees of this land, and destroys Islamic and non-Islamic antiquities. Do they have a natural disposition towards these criminal deeds? Throughout history, these Zionists or Jews have done nothing good."
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Dr. Yousef Al-Sharrafi: "It reminds me that when the people whom Allah saved with Moses encountered people worshipping their idols, they said to Moses: 'Make for us gods like their gods.' We are talking about the 'respected' race, which Allah saved from drowning.
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"Imagine what tricks they play with regard to God's decrees. God said: 'Do not fish on the Sabbath.' They said: 'We won't.' But to those who violated the Sabbath, Allah said: 'Be apes, despised and hated.' They cast their nets on the Friday in order to collect them on the Sunday. They specialize in deceit. Therefore, they now bring shekels – or the currency they used before the shekel – and place them in the excavations at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, so that when their future generations come – and we ask Allah that they don't come – they will say that the Jewish antiquities from these excavations prove that this blessed land belongs to them.
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"The enemy will be driven out by means of martyrdom operations, like the ones that were carried out from the West Bank. Immediately after the [1994] Hebron massacre, we witnessed the operations in Afula, in Hadera, in Dizengoff Street [in Tel Aviv], operations in Jerusalem, and in the Gaza Strip. All these operations were carried out in order to avenge the blood of the people who were slaughtered in the Hebron massacre.
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"If the enemy knew that it would pay the price – especially through martyrdom operations in its buses and its restaurants - it would think a million times before taking such measures."
