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...Hamas is going to be successful." And at the moment, Hamas' power is unchallenged. Both Americans and Israelis believe that Arafat's downtrodden Palestinian Authority has the means to dismantle Hamas but not the will, whereas Palestinians believe it has neither. "No one can finish Hamas," says Rantisi. Al-Zahar put it in starker terms: if Arafat tries to crack down again, "we are going to defend ourselves with all means available, including guns." Hamas leaders tell TIME emphatically that they will not allow a fraternal war to engulf Gaza. Said Rantisi: "Hamas has forbidden that from happening...
...political wing has a public face. Everyone knew Sheik Yassin as Hamas' founder and spiritual head, the only cleric in the pantheon of Palestinian leaders. They know a few of the other out-front elite, like Rantisi, a pediatrician and Islamic ideologue who had been Hamas' No. 2; al-Zahar, a surgeon who teaches at Gaza's Islamic University and also leans toward the relative hard line; and the much lamented Abu Shanab, who reflected Hamas' more moderate side. Everyone is aware of Musa Abu Marzook and Khaled Mashaal, two tough decision makers who help run Hamas from increasingly constricted...
...bombmaking arsenal and plot a new wave of suicide attacks. Israel has responded by broadening its offensive against Hamas to include strikes aimed at killing the group's ideological and political leaders. After last week's bombings, Israeli warplanes struck the house of another Hamas leader, Mahmoud al-Zahar, killing al-Zahar's son Khaled and a bodyguard, and seriously injuring his wife and daughter. The air strikes have killed 12 suspected Hamas leaders in the past month, but the accompanying loss of innocent lives has stoked Palestinian fury toward Israel, a fact Hamas and other militant groups...
...process can end the murderous machinations of the extremist segment within the Arab world that seeks Israel’s destruction. Israel can cut a deal with moderates who respect its right to exist, but Palestinian terrorists will never accept compromise. Witness the bone-chilling words of Mahmoud al-Zahar, a Hamas leader, as quoted in the New York Times: “From our ideological point of view, it is not allowed to recognize that Israel controls one square meter of historic Palestine...
...Zahar is not referring to Israel’s 1967 borders: historic Palestine includes the entirety of Israel. These are the words of a fanatical proto-fascist bent on Israel’s destruction. Such people do not negotiate. They can only be defeated...