Just in case you didn’t know already…

Posted on 04/02/2006 by Laurence Simon

From Haaretz:

Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar was quoted in a weekend interview to a Chinese news agency defending Hamas’ declared goal of eventually destroying Israel.

Zahar, a prominent Hamas leader sworn into the Palestinian Authority cabinet last week, told the Xinhua news agency that he is certain the goal will be realized, because “There is no place for Israel on this land.”

According to the interview, Zahar maintained that Palestinians have no problem with the Jewish religion, only with the Israeli occupation, and said he does not rule out the possibility of Jews, Muslims and Christians living together in one Islamic state.

From Jerusalem Post:

Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar of Hamas said this weekend that he “dreamed of hanging a huge map of the world on the wall at my Gaza home which does not show Israel on it,” the China View news service reported.

“I hope that our dream to have our independent state on all historic Palestine (including Israel) will become real one day. I’m certain of this because there is no place for the state of Israel on this land,” said Zahar.

That’s the guy Hamas considers their Foreign Minister, folks. The person tasked with interacting with the rest of the world.

Considering that he said this in a Chinese state-run newspaper (is there any other kind), how long before the Gaza Zoo gets a pair of pandas?

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2 Responses to Just in case you didn’t know already…

  1. chsw says:
    04/02/2006 at 5:26 pm

    NOTE: No one ever asked this terrorist plenipotentiary whether Muslims, Christians and Jews living in a Hamas state would have equal rights. No one ever commented to this terrorist plenipotentiary (lets just call him the TP) that Muslims, Christians and Jews are all voting citizens within Israel. No one asked the TP what he thought of China’s suppression of Islam in its western provinces.

    In sum, no one asked him a question the answer of which could illuminate a gnat’s backside.

    chsw

  2. Michael Lonie says:
    04/02/2006 at 10:48 pm

    He counts as a moderate because he doesn’t admit he wants to kill all the Jews. How suave and sophisticated of him. The guys with real power are the ones who say that.

    If the Arabs keep up their terrorism he’ll eventually be able to hang a map up with no Palestine shown, and it won’t be in his home in Gaza.

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