The Jerusalem Post reports that “former PA foreign minister Mahmoud A-Zahar of Hamas said Friday that recognizing Israel contradicts the Koran.” In an interview with a Hamas-affiliated Web site, Zahar also said that “Hamas had not given up on the principle that all of Palestine is Muslim land.”
Or to put it more bluntly: the Jews have got to go, according to this man of peace.
Lastly, he claimed that Fatah is “building a new army and training operatives in various Arab countries in a renewed effort to eliminate Hamas.”
Zahar is an important figure within Hamas. It seems to me that when he says things like this, we have to take it very seriously and we have to assume that he is talking for Hamas as a whole. Can there ever be peace between Israel and a Hamas-ruled ‘Palestine’?
I think not.
In other Israeli news, former Prime Minister Ehud Barak stated the obvious when he said that the second war in Lebanon was “a failure.” Nevertheless, he said, Israel is “still the strongest country that lies between Libya and Iran.”
Twice right.
He also said: “Israel’s citizens understand the solution [for the Israel-Palestinian conflict] is the creation of two states. We are here and they are there.”
Three times.
In short: Barak was on a roll yesterday.
I agree with those who say that the Palestinians should have their own country. However, negotiating with Hamas on this point is, as I see it, useless. Hamas does not want a two-state solution, Hamas wants a one-state solution: all Palestine, no JewsIsrael.
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