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Friday, December 17, 2010

AFP puts a moderate face on a Jew-hating terrorist leader

Last month, Hamas' co-founder and ideological leader Mahmoud Zahar said: The Jews will soon be expelled from Palestine that same way they were kicked out by France, Britain, Belgium, Russia and Germany, Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar said over the weekend. ..."They have no place here amongst us because of their crimes. They will soon be expelled from here and we will pray at the Aqsa Mosque [in Jerusalem].” Zahar claimed that Jews were expelled in...

Something you won't read in AP

From AP last week: In recent years, Hamas has tried to reach out to the West, and its supreme leader in exile, Khaled Mashaal, has expressed support for a Palestinian state in 1967 borders.At the same time, Hamas has not revoked its founding charter which calls for Israel's destruction, and Hamas officials won't say whether they see a two-state deal as a final arrangement...

Hamas/Damascus rebukes Zahar for using the word "Jews"

A couple of weeks ago, Mahmoud Zahar - the supposedly moderate and pragmatic Hamas leader in Gaza - let his mask slip as he spouted anti-semitic rhetoric, saying that Jews have been expelled from all the countries they've been in because of their "crimes" and they will be expelled from Palestine as well. Hamas, of course, has been carefully nurturing an image of moderation and pragmatism - an image that is happily believed by the likes...

Hamas? Anti-semitic? No way!

You know how Hamas always says that they have nothing against Jews, just Zionists? Apparently, they are also referring to the Zionists of the Middle Ages: The Jews will soon be expelled from Palestine that same way they were kicked out by France, Britain, Belgium, Russia and Germany, Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar said over the weekend. “The only nation that received the Jews after they were expelled was the Islamic nation, which protected them and...

Hamas says Arafat instructed them to attack Jews

Palestine Press Agency quotes Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar as saying that Yasir Arafat instructed Hamas to attack Jewish civilians at the start of the second intifada. Speaking at an event commemorating the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the terror spree in September 2000, Zahar said "the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat had ordered Hamas to implement a number of military operations in the heart of the Jewish state, after the failure...

al-Zahar says terrorism unrelated to negotiations

Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar, trying to publicly distance the Hamas Gaza leadership and the al-Qassam Brigades, bizarrely claimed that the two terror attacks this week in the West Bank were not related to the resumption of negotiations in Washington this week. This despite the fact that the al Qassam Brigades made that exact link. Zahar said that Hamas has no interest in stopping the negotiations, although it is skeptical about the results and...

Hamas fumes at Ramadan skit

Last week, PA TV broadcast a skit on a satirical program that made fun of Hamas leaders - and Hamas reacted angrily. In the skit, Hamas leaders Haniyeh and al Zahar are waiting anxiously at the Gaza border for curvaceous Lebanese diva Haifa Wehbe to arrive. They are holding signs that say that "the siege is made of Iron, but only Haifa can melt it." When she arrives, she goes into Haniyeh's car and puts on a veil. The skit continues with Haniyeh...

Fatah chides Hamas for not being pro-terror enough

Yesterday, Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar said that the recent fatal rocket fire from Gaza was meant to undermine Hamas' authority and played into the hands of Israel. He stopped just short of saying that those behind the attacks were collaborators with Israel.Today, he is being criticized for his public statements against rocket fire by the usual collection of terror groups -by Islamic Jihad, by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - and...

A little Jew-hatred from Hamas

YNet reports:Amid growing tensions in east Jerusalem, senior Hamas figure Mahmoud al-Zahar leveled scathing criticism, replete with anti-Semitic rhetoric, over the rededication of the Hurva Synagogue in the Old City's Jewish Quarter."You who are opening Hurva are heading towards ruin. Wherever you have been you've been sent to your destruction [a pun on the name Hurva - EoZ]. You've killed and murdered your prophets and you have always dealt in loan-sharking...

Mahmoud Zahar the deadbeat

Palestine Press Agency quotes Fatah member Jamal Nazzal as claiming that Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar did not pay the electric bill for his large house in 2006 and 2007, owing several thousand shekel...

"To kill Israeli soldiers is to worship God"

From Al Arabiya:The audience in the Gaza Strip clapped and cheered as the actor delivered the movie's most memorable line."To kill Israeli soldiers is to worship God.""Imad Aqel", which had its premiere on Saturday, is the first feature film produced by the Islamist Hamas movement and the title is the name of a Palestinian fighter whom Israel held accountable for the deaths of 13 soldiers and settlers.In accordance with strict Muslim tradition, men...

Quick PalArab news

There are reports that Gaza Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar secretly visited Switzerland and met with Swiss officials. The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan charges that some Israeli produce sold in Jordan is grown in West Bank farms, and calls for a boycott.For those wondering, the Red Cross regularly visits Arab prisoners in Israeli jails. It announced its July visit schedule. Egyptian forces yet again killed Somalis trying to get into Israe...

Hamas selling baby formula stolen from humanitarian aid

Palestine Press Agency reports that Hamas has stolen selling large quantities of baby formula from France that arrived in Gaza as humanitarian aid, and started selling it openly.In other news, an Egyptian governor denies that Mahmoud al-Zahar is hiding in Al Arish. I guess he knows every single citizen there.A new poll of Palestinian Arabs shows that more people now support Hamas - in the West Bank. A majority of West Bank PalArabs think that Hamas...

Mahmoud Zahar still missing

I reported on January 17th that there were reports that Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar had escaped Gaza by faking injuries, forging medical papers and taking an ambulance from Gaza to Egypt during one of the three-hour "lulls" during the fighting.Since then, the Gazans have been wondering where exactly Zahar has disappeared to. Some of the rumors say that he actually was injured....

Reports: Hamas leader escaped Gaza in an ambulance

Palestine Press Agency is reporting that Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar escaped from Gaza into Egypt using an ambulance.Witnesses said that Mahmoud al-Zahar, a Hamas leader and former Minister for Foreign Affairs, fled in an ambulance after Bassem Naim, Minister of Health in Gaza, forged a medical report and put medical gauze on his head to disguise him. Zahar took advantage of the three-hour humanitarian period of calm declared by the Israeli army...