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Hamas military’s co-founder apologises for bringing misery to Palestinians
August 18, 2016 14:27
One of the founders of Hamas's military wing has written a Facebook post in which he accuses the terror group of bringing destruction to the Palestinians, and apologises for his involvement in its activities.
Muhammad Nazami Nasser was one of the founders of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades and was known to be close to Mahmoud Abdel Rauf al-Mabhouh, a senior Hamas military commander who was assassinated in Dubai in 2010.
Although Nasser made no reference to the terror he inflicted on Israel, he apologised to nearly all of the various Palestinian factions, including "Palestinians within and outside [of Palestine]," "the immortal Palestinian president Yasser Arafat," Fatah, the PFLP, the DFLP and many others.
Nasser does not mention Hamas by name but, according to the Times of Israel, he said he was sorry for the "horror of hatred that lived within me toward you [i.e., the political factions]," and for his "relentless work so that you would not have a geographical or political place on the national map."
"I apologise to you for my biggest dream," he added, "that you would all be buried beneath the ground, dead and motionless."
"I ask God to forgive me for this [deception] from the Devil [i.e., Hamas], that this hatred would bring me to the highest height of Paradise. O God, O God, O God I have been deprived of the blessing of diversity… My homeland has been destroyed because I couldn't comprehend the acceptance of others. And what is worse, I thought I was working with religion."
Nasser appeared to refer to Hamas as the "devil" which made him think he would go to heaven for his involvement with them.
"I hope you will accept my apology for this, though it may not be helpful after all this destruction and devastation against religion, the homeland and the people," he wrote.
Nasser lived in Sudan for a period but is now known be living in Gaza.
