Unnamed PIJ leader, 2002

Author
Unnamed PIJ leader
Date
2002
Name of Author
Unnamed PIJ leader, 2002
Body

“The Zionist entity shows us nothing but naked and brutal power, which makes any kind of restraint on our part impossible. We don't have tanks or Apaches or F-16s, but we have the determination to be martyrs.”Muhammad Muslih, “‘They Took Our Land, so Why Shouldn’t I Kill Them?” New York Times, April 26, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/26/opinion/26iht-edmus_ed3_.html.

Rhetoric Category
Anti-Israel
Death-Glorifying
Pro-Violence
Threat
Palestinian Islamic Jihad

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