War & Peace Quote by Ahmed Yassin

Yassin’s phrasing is doing political triage: it tries to fence Hamas’s violence into a category that can be sold as “resistance,” not hatred. “Main battle” is the tell. It concedes, without admitting, that there are other battles too - intra-Palestinian power struggles, ideological warfare, attacks that don’t map cleanly onto combat. By stressing “always,” he retrofits a messy record into a single, supposedly consistent storyline: a movement defined by targeting armed agents of occupation rather than civilians.

The pairing of “Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers” is equally calculated. Soldiers are an internationally legible enemy; settlers are more rhetorically useful because they collapse the boundary between civilian life and state force. In the conflict’s moral theater, a soldier is a combatant; a settler is presented as a civilian who has chosen to become part of the machinery of dispossession. Yassin’s construction aims to normalize fighting both under one banner, flattening the ethical distinction and widening the list of “legitimate” targets without having to say so outright.

“Jewish settlers,” not “Israeli settlers,” is a loaded choice. It’s meant to track the reality that settlement is bound up with a Jewish-national project, but it also risks laundering a political critique into an ethnic-religious frame. That ambiguity is strategic: it rallies supporters who hear identity and destiny, while giving apologists a way to insist the target is political behavior, not Jews.

Context matters: as a Hamas founder speaking amid the intifadas and the settlement boom, Yassin is trying to win international toleration, maintain internal legitimacy, and keep the conflict narratively anchored to occupation - even as the tactics and targets on the ground often made that claim harder to sustain.