Abd al-Aziz ar-Rantisi

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Abd al-Aziz ar-Rantisi

Abd al-Aziz ar-Rantisi (born October 23, 1947 in Yibna near Jawne ; † April 17, 2004 , Arabic عبد العزيز الرنتيسي, DMG ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ar-Rantīsī ) was a pediatrician and "General Commander" of Hamas .

Life

Rantisi was born in Yibna near the city of Jawne, which is now on Israeli territory. During the 1948 war, he and his family fled to Chan Yunis in the Gaza Strip . Yibna has been almost completely destroyed and depopulated. He studied medicine at the Egyptian University of Alexandria , where he had contact with the Muslim Brotherhood .

In 1976 he returned to Gaza. He was married to Jamila Abdallah Taha asch-Shanti and the father of six children. Ar-Rantisi spent nine years of his life in prison, two of which were incarcerated by the PA for inciting people . He became known as the spokesman for 400 fighters deported to Lebanon and through his contacts with Hezbollah and Iran . After some time in prison, he had been permanently at large since the second intifada (September 2000), but went underground shortly before his death. On March 24, 2004, the 57-year-old doctor in Gaza was appointed Hamas' new "General Commander". Two days earlier, its founder and chief ideologist Ahmad Yasin had been killed in a targeted rocket attack by Israeli attack helicopters.

Ar-Rantisi was part of the militant-radical wing of the Hamas leadership. Like Yasin, whose deputy he was, he saw terrorist attacks against the Israeli civilian population as a legitimate means of combating the occupation of Palestine , which he also included Israeli territory as part of Palestine. In contrast to Yasin, he was not a religiously trained leader and in the summer of 2003 had rejected the " Hudna " ceasefire . In speeches and interviews, however, he repeatedly justified violent Hamas actions, citing the “will of God” and calling for the destruction of the State of Israel.

Rantisi claimed that the Holocaust was not about "what the Germans did to the Jews, but about what the Jews did to the Germans"; a repetition of the perversion of victims and perpetrators in the Nazi mass murder, as had already been done by the propagandists of National Socialism.

death

On April 17, 2004, ar-Rantisi died - like his predecessor Yasin - from a targeted killing by the Israeli air force . A bodyguard and his driver were also killed, and ten bystanders were injured. As early as June 10, 2003, ar-Rantisi had narrowly escaped an attack by the Israeli armed forces in which a woman and a girl were killed.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benny Morris: The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6 , pp. 258-259.
  2. ↑ Abd al-Aziz Rantissi . Jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved July 3, 2010.
  3. ↑ in a review by Matthias Küntzel on Jeffrey Herf The jewish enemy.
  4. ↑ al-Rantisi. Abdel Aziz: The Holocaust - The Greatest of Lies Funded by the Zionists. In: Al-Risala, August 21, 2003, translated into: MEMRI Special Dispatch Series - No. 558 , August 27, 2003.
  5. ↑ Report in Haaretz
personal data
SURNAME Rantisi, Abd al-Aziz ar-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES عبد العزيز الرنتيسي (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palestinian Hamas leader and pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Yibna at Jawne
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 2004