Posted on 02/01/2006 6:45:25 AM PST by SJackson
MEMRI: Hamas Leader: Why Should We Recognize Condoleezza or Israel's Right to Exist?
Special Dispatch - Palestinian Authority
February 1, 2006
No. 1083
Hamas Leader Mahmoud Zahar on Al-Manar TV: "Palestine means Palestine in its Entirety - From the [Mediterranean] Sea to the [Jordan] River... We Cannot Give Up a Single Inch of it... Why Should We Recognize Condoleezza Rice... or Israel's Right to Exist?"
The following are excerpts from an interview with Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar, which aired on Al-Manar TV on January 25, 2006.
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Mahmoud Al-Zahar: "We will not give up the resistance in the sense of jihad, martyrdom-seeking, sacrifices, arrests, the demolition of homes, and the uprooting of trees, at the same time, nor the shattering of the Israeli enemy's honor in all the confrontations - the war of tunnels and of security against the Israeli enemy, which ultimately led to its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank.
"We will not give up this plan for the kind of plan that people associate with the Legislative Council - luxury cars, VIP permits, investments, and pockets full of millions, while 30-40% of the Palestinian people is writhing with hunger."
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"We will not allow a situation in which a person who is wounded cannot be treated anywhere, unless he goes to the Israeli enemy, or is transferred across the border. Our education system will not represent Palestine as a coastal strip stretching from Rafah to Beit Hanoun. We will teach them their history and the geography of Palestine. Our Ministry of Culture will teach them how the martyr is turned into prose, literature, and poetry, and how a woman who used to cook and do the laundry turns into one of the heroes of Palestine.
"In addition, we will teach them how we can have an industry that is independent of the Israeli enemy. We will gradually get all the laborers back [from Israel], after supplying them with job opportunities in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, where they will work in small and very small factories which will be independent of the Israeli enemy."
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"Palestine means Palestine in its entirety - from the [Mediterranean] Sea to the [Jordan] River, from Ras Al-Naqura to Rafah. We cannot give up a single inch of it. Therefore, we will not recognize the Israeli enemy's [right] to a single inch. That is one thing.
"The second thing is that if the right of return is an individual right, neither Mahmoud Al-Zahar nor 'Abbas Zaki can relinquish it, because all these concessions will constitute a national catastrophe.
"The third point is that we can found a state on any piece of the land, and this will not mean we give up on any other part of the land."
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Interviewer: "Condoleezza Rice has demanded that Hamas recognize Israel's right to exist. How do you respond?"
Mahmoud Al-Zahar: "Why should we recognize Condoleezza Rice... or Israel's right to exist? In this region we have faced Roman occupation, Persian occupation, Crusader occupation, British occupation - they are all gone. The Israeli enemy does not belong to the region. It does not belong to the region's history, geography, or faith. When you enter the land occupied in 1948, it is like entering an enclave. But when you go to Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, or Egypt, you feel at home. It is your homeland."
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"If at present we cannot bring about a decisive victory, which will restore all our rights - and there is a difference between a peaceful solution of surrender, which is temporary and is referred to as 'settlements,' and a peaceful solution which is based on justice, and means the return of all the land and all the refugees. We are saying that we may agree to found a state on any part of the land, but this must never be at the expense of the other parts.
"If today we are unable to win the conflict decisively, for reasons known to all, we must not pass on to our sons a disgraceful defeat by recognizing the Israeli enemy's right to exist, where it has no such right.
"If they claim that the right of return applies - even after 2,000, 3,000, or 10,000 years - to the Jews who used to be in Palestine, we say: Apply the same principle [to us]. We left Palestine only in 1948."
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As the Aussies say..."Good on Ya Mate!"
They are going to find out pretty soon why free economies do well, and terrorist/socialist/communist/facist ones generally are composed of picking up small rocks and placing them in piles.
If you are lucky.
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So go, already.
Sounds like a declaration of war.
Considering that Isreal has nukes, maybe we might be seeing the end of the PLO problem.
A different view of Arab-Israeli history:
As soon as a people called the Arabs makes its appearance in history, it has a connection of some kind with Israel. The very first Arab known to us by name and date, Gindivu (which means locust), is mentioned as a member of an alliance against an Assyrian invader, in which King Ahab of Israel figures at the head of 10,000 foot-soldiers and 2,000 war chariots, while the Arab sheik heads 1,000 camel riders. This--the battle of Karkar in Syria--which took place in the year 853 B.C. is not mentioned in the Bible and not, of course, in Arabic sources, because Arab history in the proper sense of the term begins only much later with the founding of the Arab religion, Islam, just as Jewish history really begins only with Moses, the founder of the Jewish creed.
S. D. Goitein, Jews and Arabs: Their Contacts Through the Ages
Interesting.
Why should we recognize the right of Islam to exist
*SNAP* is the sound of the checkbook being closed!""
From your lips to God's ears....
Not too original are they?
Like godless liberals they imitate profoundity.
Since we refuse to recognize them. They turn the tables and ask why they should recognize Condi and Israel - what a bunch of lamebrains. Me thinks they have poop for brains and minions of satan.""
I believe we are witnessing a perfect example of severe inbreeding.
The idiots are truly surfacing. There seems to be no one who will stand up to them internally, so the whole group can go down with them.
No loss in my mind.
"In addition, we will teach them how we can have an industry that is independent of the Israeli enemy."
Well, Hamas pigs, you sure aren't talking about growing your own food (referring to utterly destroying greenhouses - hugely successful when administered by Israelis - donated to you).
About the only industry that you're half-assed decent at is homicide bombings and, honestly, you have been losing your touch even doing that well!
Sounds like you are ready to hang out with those mythical virgins. Godspeed!
Same here.
The sooner the better ... .
When you look at this conflict over the long period in which it has been fought - 1400 plus years, it seems the only thing those involved have mastered at a higher level than killing each other is reproducing. Where do all these crazy heathens come from?
China and Iran and Venezuela will fund them.
These aren't people you can reason with. These aren't people you can buy off. These aren't people who will eventually see sweet reason, the light of day and want to live in peace. These are people whom you have to destroy in order to obtain peace.
If anybody wondered why in the Old Testament God told the Israelites (under Joshua 3500 years ago) to completely destroy the pagan peoples inhabiting the Promised Land, look no further for the answer. Some peoples are so twisted and depraved they are simply irredeemable. The Muslim Palestinians today stand in the front ranks of such peoples.
There is always the next election, and in a parliamentary system that can only take a month.
When Hamas attacks Israel, as they surely will (or IJ, or Al Aqsa with Hamas complicity), Israel can take all necessary actions to defend itself.
The situation in the Palestinian is now crystal clear.
Somebody needs to point out to these jihadists that offending Condi Rice will more than likely finish any remote chance they had with the United States. And that Netenyahu will probably be the Israeli prime minister and he may just decide to "terminate" Hamas' existence.
be careful there hamaseeee person..."don't mess with our Condoleeza."
In Gaza, that's known as rearranging the Demons in Hell.
Do they "in-breed" in Palestine.....because, think about it.....if you were a young person....you'd look around and see people who are living in poverty, and have been forever, doing the same things over and over in an effort to "win." If it were me, I'd be saying.....I WANT OUTTA THIS PLACE....and I'd crawl to ANYWHERE, except there.
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