Call For Genocide A Metaphor, Says Man Trying To Kill As Many Jews As Possible

Gaza City, August 14 – Claiming that the flowery Middle Eastern rhetoric of his organization has been misunderstood, Qassam Brigades commander Muhammad Dieff, who spearheads Hamas’s efforts to wipe Jews off the map, told reporters that the language of his group’s charter calling for the extermination of Jews should not be taken literally.

“You must understand that we Arabs are a deeply poetic people, and the power of the word to convey emotion often overshadows the true intent,” he explained. “The Hamas charter in the strict sense calls for a genocide of the Jews, but that is simply a poetic way of saying we intend to kill them all,” said Dieff, supervising the manufacture of rockets to be launched at Israeli towns.

“This is merely a case of the literary superseding the literal,” he continued, amid a flurry of text messages regarding the construction of a tunnel into the Israeli kibbutz of Zikkim, where Hamas fighters plan to massacre the inhabitants. “Exaggeration is an integral part of our cultural mode of expression. When we call for ‘genocide’ it must be understood in its proper literary context. In context, it means causing the death of every Jew we can, nothing more.”

Dieff said he hopes that the learned will also appreciate the subtle ways in which the context shifts the meaning of the aim of genocide. “If one alters the subject only slightly, the intent changes dramatically,” he said. “Any Zionist behavior that harms Palestinians is also called ‘genocide,’ and we do indeed mean for it to be taken in its most literal sense. There is nothing more horrific and tragic than Jews being powerful enough to defend themselves, and Israel must be held accountable for it.”

Other terms that Dieff has found the West misconstrues include “civilian,” “innocent,” “ceasefire,” and “siege.”