Editor’s note: Below is the latest profile of Frontpage’s new series, “Voices of Palestine,” which will illuminate the core beliefs, in their own words, of leading figures in the Palestinian death cult. Click the following to view the profiles ofAhmad Bahr, Mahmoud al-Zahar, Ibrahim Mudayris, Yasser Ghalban, Haj Amin al-Husseini, Wafa al-Bis, Mahmoud Abbas, Ahlam Tamimi, Yassir Arafat (Part Iand Part II), Abdallah Jarbu and Sheik Ismail Aal Radhwan.
Co-founder of the terrorist group Hamas, the late Abdel Aziz Rantisi (a.k.a. Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi) devoted his life to a single purpose: destroying the state of Israel. “By God, we will not leave one Jew in Palestine,” he said. “We will fight them with all the strength we have.”
Born in 1947 in a village near the modern-day Israeli city of Jaffa, Rantisi was forced to flee his birthplace with his family in 1948 – when five Arab states declared a war of annihilation against Israel. He was raised thereafter in the refugee camps of the Gaza Strip.
After completing his secondary school education in 1965, Rantisi moved to Egypt and studied medicine at Alexandria University, where he came under the sway of the Muslim Brotherhood. Upon graduating in 1972 with a master’s degree in pediatric medicine, Rantisi returned to Gaza. In 1976 he secured work as a resident physician at Naser Hospital in the Gaza city of Khan Younis. Two years later he found employment as a science professor at the Islamic University in Gaza. He also served on the administrative boards of the Islamic Complex, the Arab Medical Society, and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.
Inclined toward acts of civil disobedience, Rantisi was arrested a number of times during the early 1980s for his participation in anti-Israel demonstrations as well as for tax evasion.
In 1987 Rantisi, along with Ahmed Yassin, was instrumental in inciting Palestinian uprisingsagainst the Israeli Defense Forces. These conflicts escalated in tension, resulting ultimately in the First Intifada. Read the rest on:
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