When developing this article I really couldn’t decide if I was going to write it in a satirical manner or in a concerned manner. The concept was just so ridiculous to me, I wasn’t sure how to convey it to the world.
The military wing of the terrorist organization Hamas, the Al Qassam Brigades –which murders, pillages, persecutes, fires rockets, stones, lynches, blows themselves up, etc. — has a Twitter account. No folks, I am not joking. The days when the world is spooked by an unmarked video or cassette tape which arrives at the Al Jazeera offices are over. You can simply “Follow” them with your personal Twitter account.
I was stunned to see the user name @AlqassamBrigade pop up amongst the average 100 tweets an hour mentioning Gaza. I had been to the terrorists’ website (which has the fun option to choose your favorite color scheme for the menus) to see their propagandized use of images from Operation Cast Lead, and this was their matching Twitter account.
Sitting at my laptop using our Sderot Media Center Twitter account, @SderotMedia, most likely only a couple of miles away from the terrorists managing the Hamas Twitter account, I thought to engage them in dialogue on one of the base debates in this conflict:
@AlqassamBrigade As you know, you terrorize thousands just over the border from Gaza here in Sderot. Or do you call it Najd?
Never receiving an answer and following protocol, I filed a complaint with Twitter and this is the automated response I received: Twitter provides a communication service. As a policy, we do not mediate content or intervene in disputes between users. Users are allowed to post content, including potentially inflammatory content, provided that they do not violate the Twitter Terms of Service and Rules (name calling is not a violation.)
Essentially, this gives the terrorist organization the most popular worldwide platform to preach whatever propaganda or hate speech they like because, as you see above, “name calling is not a violation.”
The automated Twitter response continues, “If a violent threat is posted in the future, please let us know, and send the status link.” So, only if Hamas tweets about the imminent launch of a missile attack will Twitter take action?
In the worldwide blockbuster jaw-dropping movie Bruno, created by comic mastermind Sasha Baron Cohen, the main character Bruno is attempting to make peace in the Arab-Israeli conflict and while hosting a dialogue session he continually misuses the word “Hamas” for “Hummus;” it exemplifies the great light humor for which Baron Cohen is famous. The mainstream legitimization of the terrorist organization Hamas is so widespread that, these days, it is almost a household term and this is how the caricaturist can comically draw that connection on screen.
However, it is more than a joke when the entire world has turned its back on Hamas’ actions for nearly a decade thereby accepting it into the public domain. Rocket and suicide attacks on Jewish civilians are clearly not enough, but why won’t the world delegitimize Hamas for human rights abuses such as “honor killings?” Instead, the United Nations and Judge Goldstone chose to give Hamas and radical Islam around the world an over 500 page report to continue their terrorism.
Let’s be clear: This is not an issue of freedom of speech as Hamas is a terrorist organization even to the United Nations. I encourage everyone with a Twitter account to file a complaint against Hamas’ account @AlqassamBrigade to get Hamas out of our households and stop the tweeting of terror.
Jacob Shrybman is the Assistant Director of the Sderot Media Center, www.SderotMedia.org.il. He hosts elected officials from around the world and international media visiting the Sderot/Gaza region. He has been published in The Jerusalem Post, Israel National News, YNet News, and has appeared on several international television and radio stations.
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I can't believe these monsters have a Twitter account! Good work Sderot Media Center!
Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Front need to ve exterminated, period.
Maybe if Israel stopped committing atrocities against the Palestinians they would stop too. How would you feed if a bunch of black people just went and formed a country within your country and started killing your people, stealing your land, treating you like dogs and just plainly taking over everything like israeli roaches?
you would bomb and try to kill them too you hypocrite!
Another fool that has no idea what he is taking about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your stupidity and ignorance about who took whose land and who wants to kill who is not even worthy a response, I just could not help it!!!!!!!!!!!
Terrorism, to people like you is novelty, they just love it because the know nothing and have nothing else to do with their miserable life.
Get you're head out of your Orwellian butt, read some real history, and stop spewing the newspeak of your brainwashed puny mind.
The U.N. should simply consider giving Hamas and Hezbollah a joint seat as heads of their Security Council and Human Rights Commission. If Libya, Syria, and Iran can get it, fair is fair. They earned it, it any case, as they are the front line forces of the U.N.'s anti-democracy power structure. Consider that without these terror organizations firing missiles, kidnapping soldiers, and offering Ph.D.s in martyrdom, the U.N. would be unable to accuse Israel of using disproportionate force or injuring civilians. It is from the true sacrifices of these brave terrorists, willing to kneel behind or simply don their women's burquas, or fire missiles from atop apartment complexes, that the U.N. is able to create its boilerplate condemnations against Israel. If they weren't willing to transport weapons in ambulances or hide weapons in hospitals, the U.N. could not condemn them for destroying medical facilities.
The U.N. should simply consider giving Hamas and Hezbollah a joint seat as heads of their Security Council and Human Rights Commission. If Libya, Syria, and Iran can get it, fair is fair. They earned it, it any case, as they are the front line forces of the U.N.'s anti-democracy power structure. Consider that without these terror organizations firing missiles, kidnapping soldiers, and offering Ph.D.s in martyrdom, the U.N. would be unable to accuse Israel of using disproportionate force or injuring civilians. It is from the true sacrifices of these brave terrorists, willing to kneel behind or simply don their women's burquas, or fire missiles from atop apartment complexes, that the U.N. is able to create its boilerplate condemnations against Israel. If they weren't willing to transport weapons in ambulances or hide weapons in hospitals, the U.N. could not condemn them for destroying medical facilities.
You Guy are wrong HAMAs is a resistance organization who are defending their small-left land called GAZA, Dont you know that you occupied Sedort itself from Palestinian Families.
HAMAS has the right to resist untill it liberates all palestinve
VIVA Palestine
We live in a WORLD where the truth become a Lie and the LIE become truth. where the reality become Dream and the DREAM become reality. Zionism is the Greatest Challnege ever faced by the Middle east and Palestine will once again come back to the World geography.
Sedort is a palestinian Land and it should be returned to them Soon.
Khamas or HAMAs will win and drive out the jewsh Zionist who HATE muslims from the Holy land.
Go to HELL mr Writer, You Drink each day a palestinian Blood
WHO is a terrorist?
The Zionist to Took land, Kidnap people every now and then, Kill Civilians inclduign women and children, confiscate land, biuld houses on others land.
Crazy world what a wonderful world.
Yet a Terrorist. Isael has been taught a small lesson by the Hesbollah and Hamas and they will teach again and again untill those settlers Inclduing Jacob Shrybman should go back to AMerica and where they Came from
Jacob Shrybman is a Settler who came from America and occupied a piece of Palestine Land.
lol Twitter ought to be outranking other social sites