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by Khaled Abu Toameh
• September 7, 2014 at 5:00 am
What
Hamas and Iran are saying is that if and when Israel pulls back to the
pre-1967 lines, they, together with other Palestinians, would bring
weapons into the West Bank to achieve their goal of eliminating the
"Zionist entity."
Abbas's
initiative also ignores that Hamas could easily seize control of the West
Bank through force or through the promised free and democratic elections,
which recent polls show Hamas is assured of winning. Abbas is demanding
something that would bring about his own demise.
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Mahmoud Abbas (r) meets with the Hamas political
bureau chief Khaled Mashaal in Qatar, July 20, 2014. (Image source:
Handout from the Palestinian Authority President's Office/Thaer Ghanem)
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If the West Bank had one quarter of the weapons that the Gaza Strip
has, Israel would be eliminated in one day. This is what Hamas leader
Mahmoud Zahar told worshippers during a sermon he delivered on September
5.
Zahar, who, during Israel's Operation Protective Edge, spent his
time in hiding, was speaking during Friday prayers at Martyr Abdullah
Azzam Mosque in Gaza City.
Abdullah Azzam, by the way, was a Palestinian "scholar,"
teacher and mentor of Osama bin Laden, the slain leader of Al-Qaeda.
Azzam was killed in Pakistan in 1989.
Back to Zahar, who delivered his first sermon since the
Egypt-brokered cease-fire between Hamas and Israel was announced in late
August: he chose to remind Palestinians and the rest of the world of his
movement's dream to destroy Israel.
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