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by tikun | January 9, 2011 at 07:21 am
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- Senior Hamas Official Mahmoud al-Zahar says Holocaust was “a lie”
- Al-Zahar accuses Israel of “holocausts” in defensive operations against terrorist groups
- Hamas’ charter continues to call for destruction of Israel
Jerusalem, Jan 7 – A senior Hamas leader has denied the Nazi Holocaust, putting the Gaza-based terrorist group which wants to destroy Israel on the same page as Iran which funds and arms it.
Mahmoud al-Zahar, a co-founder of Hamas and member of its leadership, said Thursday (Jan. 6) that the Nazi genocide of six million Jews during the Second World War was “a lie.”
"The lie according to which they were a victim of a holocaust and the (Jewish) people are a victim -- this lie has crumbled,” said al-Zahar. In fact, he said, it was Israel that had committed “holocausts” in its operations to defend itself against constant rocket and mortar attacks on civilians targeted from Gaza in the south.
Israel withdrew all troops and settlers from Gaza in 2005. Hamas, an Islamic fundamentalist group, took over the following year, suppressed all internal opposition, and immediately began a barrage of thousands of rockets at Israeli towns and villages across the border. Last year, 238 missiles, rockets and mortars fired from the territory landed in Israel and there have already been 11 attacks in the first week of 2011.
Al-Zahar’s declaration echoes the position Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who for years has said the Holocaust did not happen or has been vastly exaggerated. Iran is defying the international community by pushing ahead with an attempt to develop nuclear weapons.
Iran has sent Hamas hundreds of millions of dollars, smuggled weapons and trained Palestinian operatives to attack Israel. The Hamas charter calls for Israel’s destruction and the group began publishing Holocaust denials on its official Internet site 11 years ago.
This week, Israel defense forces arrested five members of Hamas in the West Bank city of Hebron after they were from a Palestinian jail. Among them was Wal Mahmoud Said Bitar who helped plan a suicide attack in the southern Israeli city of Dimona in 2008 that killed an Israeli woman and injured 10 civilians.
A Palestinian present in the building was killed during the arrest operation. The IDF said it regretted the death and was urgently investigating.
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at 08:12 on January 9th, 2011
If the Hamas Charter calls for the destruction of Israel, then how is peace even possible? Does the Israeli Charter call for the destruction of any nation? I know they want Iran attacked, but do they want this for self preservation or do they just want it gone fundamentally? Does Israel call for the destruction of Palestinians? If they did I think it would have been done by now. I know their is plenty of blame from both sides, but when one side's goal is the elimination of the other, peace will never come until one or the other is destroyed. Perhaps Hamas should rewrite it's charter if they truly care about the Palestinian people, otherwise it is they who are perpetuating the suffering of their people. Hamas are a bunch of idiots with a charter written in that way.
at 11:13 on January 9th, 2011
From day one the Palestinians greatest enemy standing in their way of social progression has been their leadership.
at 11:25 on January 9th, 2011
Absolutely. But why does their leadership continue on this path? Is it just madness caused from deep hatred? Why is their logic so flawed? What is motivating them in such a regressive way? It's either psychopathy, financial or political, it sure the hell isn't peace.
at 13:29 on January 9th, 2011
If this is the best they have, it is time to dig deeper into the youth of the society to find and cultivate new leaders. Such stupidity is beyond tolerating.
at 08:24 on January 10th, 2011
In my humble opinion, it appears to be the desire to eliminate any semblance of Jewish presence in what is presently Israel. As long as the EU and hopefully not the U.S. placates to every whim and fancy of Abbas, et.al. nothing will be accomplished. Why make peace and compromise when one can go around the issue and gain support from the governments that put the Jews in the ovens in the first place. I do not want to sound to harsh about the EU. But its leadership, many of which have notorious ties to anti-Jewish causes and sympathies, doesn't help.
Jews are leaving Europe once again and it is never a good thing when that takes place. In Israel I witness and discuss with those interested in sharing their fears about the dangers in France, Belgium, Sweden, Netherlands, Britain, Germany, etc etc having outward signs of being Jewish. Children of french Jews are being sent here for high school and above in order to live free and be Jews openly. This my friends is the tip of the iceberg and the canary in the mine shaft. France has the largest Jewish population on mainland Europe and they are seriously preparing to leave. Apartments in Israel are being purchased in droves by European Jews.
at 09:22 on January 10th, 2011
Another concern I have is to do with recent economic problems. These problems are quite rightly associated with greedy banks and Wall Street types. In turn people are saying it is the Jew who is being greedy because they have many top positions in the banks and Wall Street. While this might be a paronoid view of the Jewish community it is never the less a dangerous position for them to be in, especially as world economics worsen.