Part 3
Rif’at Shafiq
In the previous section, we discussed the first characteristic of the Jews. In this part, Allah willing, we will explore another defining trait, so that their conduct becomes clearer and their true nature is laid bare before the world.
2. Hard-heartedness, Cruelty, and Aggression
The second characteristic that Jews possess, and which they display repeatedly in their conduct, is hard-heartedness, cruelty, and aggression. Allah Almighty says about this characteristic of the Jews in the Holy Quran:
“Then your hearts became hardened after that, being like stones or even harder. For indeed, there are stones from which rivers burst forth, and there are some of them that split open and water comes out, and there are some of them that fall down for fear of Allah. And Allah is not unaware of what you do.” Surah al-Baqarah, 74
This verse describes, through a powerful example, the extreme hardness and cruelty of the Jews’ hearts. It shows that some hearts can become more unyielding than the toughest stones. No spring of compassion emerges from such hearts, no drop of mercy escapes them, and they do not tremble in reverence of Allah. Although this message was directed at the Children of Israel, it stands as a warning to all who embody the same qualities and follow the same ruinous path.
Menachem Begin, a former leader of a Zionist terrorist organization and head of the Likud Party, writes in his book The Revolt: “We fight, therefore we are.” This reveals that the foundation of extremist Zionist ideology is built upon force, aggression, violence, and war.
Anyone who studies the contemporary history of the occupying regime, along with its treatment of Palestinians and Arabs, immediately recognizes that it pursues its objectives through coercion, pressure, aggression, and harsh measures. These practices have become deeply embedded in its official policy and military doctrine.
Clear evidence of this violent orientation can be found in the repeated attacks carried out by Jews to terrorize Palestinians, drive them from their homes, and empty their lands. The seizure and annexation of Palestinian territories by the occupying regime is another explicit manifestation of this policy.
The large-scale devastation of neighborhoods in Gaza and Jerusalem, the assault on the Al Khalil Mosque at dawn during the blessed month of Ramadan and the killing of worshippers, and the nearly seventy thousand martyrs and roughly one hundred eighty thousand wounded since the launching of the Al Aqsa Flood operation, all reveal the regime’s severe, merciless, and reckless conduct.
Taken together, these events demonstrate to the world that the occupying regime does not engage through reason or peaceful dialogue. Its language is the language of force, violence, and military pressure. Even more distressing is the reality that some of its extremist leaders openly instruct their soldiers that killing civilians is a “religious duty,” even when those civilians are entirely innocent and defenseless.