Mahmoud al-Zahar, Co-founder and senior member of Hamas, March 17, 2017

Date
March 17, 2017
Name of Author
Mahmoud al-Zahar, Co-founder and senior member of Hamas
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“[R]emoving the Jews from the land they occupied in 1948 is an immutable principle because it appears in the Book of Allah…[Allah states] drive them out from wherever they have driven you out.

“Our position is: Palestine in its entirety, and not a grain of soil less…Allah did not define the 1967 borders or the 1948 borders. We will fight them [Jews] wherever we can — on the ground, underground, and if we have airplanes, we will fight them from the skies.”Dov Lieber, “Senior Hamas leader: Quran tells us to drive Jews out of Palestine’s entirety,” Times of Israel, March 16, 2017, https://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-hamas-leader-quran-tells-us-to-drive-jews-out-of-palestines-entirety/.

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