פורום ארץ הצבי

Fathi Hamad, Hamas Member of Parliament, to al-Aalam Iranian television in Arabic, 15 March 2007: (prior to the swearing-in of the Palestinian Unity government):

''Hamas rejects the Arab [peace] initiative and wants Palestine from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea. If today Israel cannot be beaten militarily, it will be possible in the future.''

- - - - - - - - - - -

• Dr. Mahmud al-Zahhar, Hamas leader in Gaza,to Hamas TV, 3 April 2007:

''Entry to the capital means the state falls. Entry to Al Aqsa Mosque means entry to Jerusalem, it means the fall of that state that sees Jerusalem as its capital. Entry there will be victorious.''

- - - - - - - - - - - -

Sami Abu-Zuhri, Hamas leader in Gaza, to Hamas TV, 6 April 2007:

''These are the founding Hamas principles on which we raise our children and in which we believe:

Armed resistance •
Non-recognition of the occupation in any form •
All Palestine from the river to the sea •
The holy places and Jerusalem •
The right of return •

- - - - - - - - - - -
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/239/0/1710.ht...
Fathi Hammad: [The enemies of Allah] do not know that the Palestinian people has developed its [methods] of death and death-seeking. For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry, at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land. The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children. This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine. It is as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: ''We desire death like you desire life.''

- - - - - - - - - - -

http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/239/0/1688.ht...

Fathi Hammad: The wounded men have sacrificed themselves in defense of the honor of the Arab and Islamic nation, and in defense of the holy places. They have sacrificed parts of their bodies in order to stop the advance of the Jews, who want to uproot you. As you know, the Israeli flag has a star between two blue lines. They want to establish the state of Israel between the Euphrates and the Nile. The Jews want to invade Egypt and Iraq, to destroy Saudi Arabia, and to return to Khaybar.
.....
you cannot allow yourselves to be ruled by four million brothers of apes and pigs. Where is your nobility? Aren’t you ashamed of yourselves? Where are you, oh Muslims, who number one and a half billion, yet you are ruled by four million brothers of apes and pigs?

- - - - - - - - - - -

http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/239/0/1561.ht...

-- - - - - - - - - - -
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/239/0/1722.ht...
In short, these are the Jews. As Muslims, our blood vengeance against them will only subside with their annihilation, Allah willing, because they tried to kill our Prophet several times.

-- - - - - - - - - -

Hezbollah and Hamas will not make peace with Israel nor allow the idea of peace to gain strength because they want a greater Palestine from the Jordan to the Mediterranean. Abbas can do nothing about this because his group is too small and weak and even if he could, he demands that any agreement allows Palestinians to settle anywhere in Israel. Israel has offered land for peace, in 1948, 1967, 1973 and made peace with Egypt in 1981 in exchange for the Sinai. Since then Israel has left territory prior to peace, but after leaving Lebanon Hezbollah grew into a monster. Leaving partialy the West bank under Arafat in anticipation of a peace deal enabled Arafat to free terrorists, arm them and allow them to send suicide bombers into Israel so Israel had to re-enter the West Bank and build the fence. Israel left Gaza in the hope that it would allow them to get on with their lives and leave them alone but the rockets increased in range and power and Gaza is now a base for terrorism, sending and inspiring killers to strike again at Israel. So the strategy of Hamas is to ensure that peace gets no momentum and their tactic is to fight from schools, hospitals and houses so that any response from Israel will incur civilian casualties knowing that their use of human shields will be ignored by the Western media who will present the conflict in terms of many Palestinian dead versus few Israeli dead so making Israel look worse. Then, the overall conclusion will be despair, boredom and Israel the Western imperialist beating up the poor Palestinians. As for Israelis, it is widely believed that as withdrawals lead to terrorism there is no point in withdrawing from the West Bank. As their enemies will only settle for their further destruction then they will have to destroy them first.