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Hamas Leader: Why Should We Recognize Condoleezza or Israel's Right to Exist?
IMRA/MEMRI ^ | 2-1-06

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."

[...]

"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."

[...]

"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."

[...]

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."

[...]

"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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hamas; israel; zahar
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1 posted on 02/01/2006 6:45:26 AM PST by SJackson
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To: SJackson

*SNAP* is the sound of the checkbook being closed!


2 posted on 02/01/2006 6:48:23 AM PST by grobdriver (Let the embeds check the bodies!)
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To: SJackson

It is going to be interesting when all the funding goes poof and what money they have is depleted. It is hard to keep this sort of attitude when you are eating dirt.


3 posted on 02/01/2006 6:49:00 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: grobdriver

Agreed, cut off the money AND the FOOD. Why should we feed these people?


4 posted on 02/01/2006 6:49:35 AM PST by yobid (What we have here is a failure to communicate)
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To: SJackson

Because unless you do all that nice American and European money your people rely on will stop comming. God be thanked for stupid enemies!


5 posted on 02/01/2006 6:50:52 AM PST by MNJohnnie ("Good men don't wait for the polls. They stand on principle and fight."-Soul Seeker)
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To: grobdriver

"*SNAP* is the sound of the checkbook being closed!"

Don't count on it. You will soon hear the arguement that we need to fund them so, they will listen to us.


6 posted on 02/01/2006 6:53:16 AM PST by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: SJackson

Well for one thing if Hamas now ever attacks Israel they attack Israel as one state against another and last I heard when States are attacked they are lawfully allowed to defend and DEFEAT those who attack it.

Who said Hamas winning the election was a loss for President Bush?

Seems like a win win for US and Israel.


7 posted on 02/01/2006 6:53:18 AM PST by funkywbr
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To: SJackson

Apparently they're counting on Hillary winning in '08.


8 posted on 02/01/2006 6:53:55 AM PST by JZelle
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To: yobid

These people have voted, made their own choice(s), and in time will learn what that responsibility and accountability befalls them. Oh woe unto those who choose to make war, woe unto them who no not the stillness of God, and woe unto them that strikes out against the peacemakers.


9 posted on 02/01/2006 6:54:48 AM PST by EBH (Never give-up, Never give-in, and Never Forget)
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To: SJackson
Why should we recognize Condoleezza Rice

Because failing to recognize a nation's chief ambassador is tantamount to declaring war on that nation. Unless you really believe that martyr crap, there's no way you want an all-out shooting war with the US.

10 posted on 02/01/2006 6:55:51 AM PST by kevkrom ("...no one has ever successfully waged a war against stupidity" - Orson Scott Card)
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To: SJackson
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.

These barbarians are delusional.

They remind me of the seagulls in that movie Finding Nemo.

Constantly running around screaming "MINE! MINE!" while $hitting all over the place.

11 posted on 02/01/2006 6:56:39 AM PST by MamaTexan (I am NOT a ~legal entity~, nor am I a *person* as created by law!)
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To: SJackson

I say let them eat bullets.


12 posted on 02/01/2006 6:57:39 AM PST by demkicker (democrats and terrorists are familiar bedfellows)
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To: funkywbr
Who said Hamas winning the election was a loss for President Bush?
Seems like a win win for US and Israel.


Not me. I have been thinking the same thing. By electing Hamas, there is no longer any cover for the "people". Had we elected a nutcase like Dean, or a weasel like Kerry, we would have fully deserved the consequences. The same thing applies to the Palistinians. They fully deserve what is coming.
13 posted on 02/01/2006 6:57:54 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: SJackson
Well then, let the war begin. My money is on Israel!
14 posted on 02/01/2006 6:58:15 AM PST by jackieaxe (Democrats are mired in a culture of screwing English speaking, taxpaying, law abiding citizens!)
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To: grobdriver

Hamas is the biggest mistake the Pallies have made since Ara-faggot jumped on the Go-Saddam ratwagon back around Gulf-War 1.

I think it's great myself. They are just digging themselves in deeper and deeper. Once the money supply from the West shuts down, things will get really nasty.

Every Fatah-faggot that is shot by a Hamas-homo (or vice-versa) is one less that the civilized world is going to have to worry about later.


15 posted on 02/01/2006 6:58:44 AM PST by Ronin (When the fox gnaws.... SMILE!!!)
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To: SJackson

Clear Hamas is hardly going to attrack new business centers and jobs to the region since it is totally clueless on pro-stability and pro-business policies. In fact it promotes just the opposite by ensuring constant destruction of lives and property. These guys are about to pay the price for their focus on destruction and may well learn just who has been propping up their sorry economy (despite rampant Marc Rich kind of thievery by Arafat and Fatah).


16 posted on 02/01/2006 7:01:30 AM PST by rod1
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To: SJackson
Hmmm threatening Condi isnt to smart.
17 posted on 02/01/2006 7:03:45 AM PST by Echo Talon
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To: SJackson
Why Should We Recognize Condoleezza Rice

Because she is the one who is going to destroy your sorry butts..............

18 posted on 02/01/2006 7:04:36 AM PST by Red Badger (...I will bless them that bless thee and those who curse thee I will turn into Liberals..........)
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To: SJackson
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.
19 posted on 02/01/2006 7:05:25 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God))
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To: SJackson

...because it's a darn good idea, that's why.


20 posted on 02/01/2006 7:05:49 AM PST by madison10
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