Parenting & Family Quote by Ahmed Yassin

It is the bureaucratic calm of the phrasing that lands the punch. “Our priorities require” sounds like a memo, not a call to militarize a society. Ahmed Yassin wraps an extreme demand in the language of necessity and planning, as if the choice has already been made by circumstances rather than by politics. That move matters: it shifts accountability from leadership to fate, from strategy to inevitability.

The sentence is also engineered to collapse civilian life into the logic of the battlefield. “All children” is not incidental; it’s the point. By naming children first, Yassin isn’t just advocating readiness, he’s declaring that childhood itself is a luxury Palestine cannot afford. The addition of “men and women” signals inclusivity, but the subtext is more severe: every identity category is conscripted into a single national role. In this framing, citizenship equals combat preparedness.

Then comes the double bind: “training” and “armament.” Training can be sold as discipline, resilience, even self-defense. Armament removes the ambiguity. The pairing is a rhetorical escalator, moving from the socially acceptable (prepare) to the politically explosive (weaponize), while making the latter seem like the natural completion of the former.

Context sharpens the intent. Yassin, as Hamas’s spiritual and political figurehead in an era of intifadas, assassinations, and tightening occupation, speaks from a worldview where endurance is measured by the capacity to fight. The quote is less a description of reality than a bid to manufacture it: to normalize permanent mobilization, recruit the next generation, and convert collective trauma into a pipeline of legitimacy for armed struggle.