Creep of the Week - March 22, 1997

Image: The aftermath of the Hamas bombing in Tel Aviv

Hamas
Welcome to this anniversary edition of Creep of the Week. It was just a year ago, on March 9, 1996 that Hamas, a fundamentalist Islamic group, first arrived on these pages due to a series of suicide bombings in Israel. Go back and read that piece and note how NOTHING HAS CHANGED!! Only the names of the dead are different. The boys of Hamas are still deranged, full of hatred and willing to blow themselves up to make sure everyone knows it.

This week it was 28-year-old Mohammed Abdel Khader Abu Deiyah Ghneimat (translation: "I didn't have such a good life anyway - all those idiotic Hamas meetings to go to, and it takes a half hour to sign my name") who got the plum assignment to wrap himself in a nail-studded bomb, walk into a crowded Tel Aviv cafe and pull the pin, killing himself and three Israeli women. 47 others were injured including children and babies. Hamas fans thought this was a great showing. When a Hamas cheerleader in the West Bank town of Nablus, announced to 10,000 of these crackpots at a pep rally: "I have good news for you. There is a suicide operation in Tel Aviv," the crowd clapped and responded with shouts of "Allahu Akbar," or God is Great.

As expected, the leaders in the area quickly delved into their standard un-enlightening juvenile finger-pointing: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must stop his crazy policies in East Jerusalem," said Brigadier Jibril Rajoub, commander of West Bank security. "The reaction, the riots, the demonstrations are the result of these policies." But Netanyahu blamed Palestinian President Yasser Arafat for the blast, pointing to the freeing of Hamas militants who had been arrested after last year's bombings.

What makes these guys so angry, anyway? The lack of alcohol and women can't help. They probably don't even get that pre-bombing sake and sex ceremony that the Japanese kamikaze pilots had. Might corrupt them and ruin their futures, you know. What do you do about a bunch of satanic morons who don't mind getting killed? Well, it doesn't take a Harvard education to come up with the simplest solution - kill them! Who would care? Certainly not Hamas - they live to die violently. Just find their clubhouse, blow it up with lots of nails and everybody's happy! If that idea fills you with revulsion and makes you think that fighting fire with fire is just one more indication of how humanity is sliding down the slopes of the river Styx, just remember - Allahu Akbar!

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