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Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar.
Last update - 18:07 17/04/2008
Zahar: Gazans can do 'no less' than rise up like Warsaw Ghetto Jews
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Mahmoud Zahar, Israel, Gaza 

Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar writing in an opinion piece published Thursday in the Washington Post stated that Gazans can do 'no less' than rise up against Israel like Jews in the Warsaw ghetto did against the Nazis.

"Sixty-five years ago, the courageous Jews of the Warsaw ghetto rose in defense of their people. We Gazans, living in the world's largest open-air prison, can do no less," Zahar wrote in the newspaper.

The Gaza-based Hamas leader later decried Judaism as having "corrupted itself in the detour into Zionism, nationalism and apartheid."
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In the Washington Post opinion piece, Zahar also denounced Israel as waging a "total war" against the Palestinian people, which he cited as an explanation for last week's attack by Gaza militants on the Nahal Oz fuel depot, declaring that resistance was the only option left to the Palestinians.

Zahar further stated that United States policy in the Middle East had reached a dead end, while praising former U.S. president Jimmy Carter's "sensible plan to visit the Hamas leadership" as bringing honesty and pragmatism.

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      1.   Those who want all the territory have only endless war to offer 13:47  |  Sam 17/04/08
      2.   If you love Israel boycott Washinton Post! (or maybe not) 14:11  |  Michael 17/04/08
      3.   Lousy article: this is what he really said 14:37  |  Joe Sittizen 17/04/08
      4.   #2 Michael, have you been drinking???? 14:43  |  Bob 17/04/08
      5.   Ha! 15:15  |  J K 17/04/08
      6.   Not quite the Warsaw Ghetto 15:31  |  Joseph 17/04/08
      7.   The difference between the Warsaw Ghetto & the Gaza Ghetto 15:42  |  Clickfool 17/04/08
      8.   if the zionist could they 15:43  |  sam i am 17/04/08
      9.   Gaza, an "open air prison." 15:44  |  Douglas Fireman 17/04/08
      10.   i was mistaken! this is what it really said 15:46  |  Joe Sittizen 17/04/08
      11.   Zahar is right! 15:54  |  tim 17/04/08
      12.   I really hate to agree with a guy like Zahar...... 15:55  |  Swiss (Dino) 17/04/08
      13.   freedom for the gaza ghetto 16:12  |  oppressed 17/04/08
      14.   History 16:17  |  John 17/04/08
      15.   It`s like comparing apples to apples 16:17  |  Natallie Durson 17/04/08
      16.   International justice demands that Palestine be restored 16:20  |  Raed Kami 17/04/08
      17.   International justice demands that Palestine be restored 16:20  |  Raed Kami 17/04/08
      18.   International justice demands that Palestine be restored 16:20  |  Raed Kami 17/04/08
      19.   International justice demands that Palestine be restored 16:20  |  Raed Kami 17/04/08
      20.   Zahar is right. Gaza is the Warsaw Ghetto.... 16:21  |  Deborah 17/04/08
      21.   Something for Nothing 16:21  |  David Schorie 17/04/08
      22.   I wonder if America had supported....... 16:23  |  Deborah 17/04/08
      23.   Simple solution:israel withdraw to the Partition Line of 1947! 16:24  |  lakshmi 17/04/08
      24.   Bad luck, these islamofascist he is still alive......... 16:28  |  maurice 17/04/08
      25.   We Gazans, living in the world`s largest open-air prison, can do 16:34  |  Ray 17/04/08
      26.   DON`T USE FALSE METAPHORS TO COMPARE YOURSELVES TO US 16:42  |  david 17/04/08
      27.   VERY TRUE! PALS should not go gently into the trains 16:48  |  FIGHT! 17/04/08
      28.   #3-"Absolutely No Comparison" 16:50  |  Knott Bushman 17/04/08
      29.   Raed 17:01  |  Brad 17/04/08
      30.   Deborah enlightens us 17:03  |  peter 17/04/08
      31.   Why are You Crying Zahar? 17:06  |  Brad 17/04/08
      32.   #11 - Something for Nothing 17:06  |  Knott Bushman 17/04/08
      33.   tim & swiss(dino) & debrorah 17:11  |  e 17/04/08
      34.   poor zaha needs a history 17:13  |  peter 17/04/08
      35.   There is no similarity between Warsaw Ghetto Jews and Palis 17:14  |  Mark 17/04/08
      36.   This man is a thug 17:19  |  Nechama 17/04/08
      37.   Israel won`t commit suicide and inter`l community won`t force it 17:24  |  Sam 17/04/08
      38.   Desperately attempting to hijack a heroic stand/tragedy of Jews.. 17:25  |  bat yam 17/04/08
      39.   For Knott Bushman: this is where you failed as a teacher 17:37  |  Darth Zaider (Ed) 17/04/08
      40.   Great tapestry 17:50  |  Di 17/04/08
      41.   #22 Jews in Israel first, Brad? 17:52  |  Ben Alofs 17/04/08
      42.   Naive (Swiss) Dino 17:55  |  Real Swiss 17/04/08
      43.   Read Y. Zuckerman`s book; uprising was only to stop extermination 18:02  |  McQueen 17/04/08
      44.   Gaza Ghetto: Homemade AND With No Holleriths 18:05  |  Tex 17/04/08
      45.   BULL 18:12  |  judith 17/04/08
      46.   Great speech from Muslim Brother Nazi 18:34  |  ankhfnkhonsu 17/04/08
      47.   Great speech from Muslim Brother Nazi 18:34  |  ankhfnkhonsu 17/04/08
      48.   Simple Solution, Cancel Palestine, 2 states, Israel and Jordan 18:45  |  David 17/04/08
      49.   haaretz as usual lies. zahar said many more interesting things 18:51  |  v 17/04/08
      50.   to 18:58  |  17/04/08
      51.   # 42 Real Swiss and also # 33 e 19:00  |  Swiss (Dino) 17/04/08
      52.   to Ben Alofs 19:04  |  Ralph 17/04/08
      53.   # 41 Ben Alofs,MD - "The most preposterous aspect of your 19:06  |  17 17/04/08
      54.   Zahar and Nazis 19:13  |  Paul 17/04/08
      55.   Intl Justic demand Hamas stand before Hague 19:18  |  David 17/04/08
      56.   gutless Zahar- he wishes his gaza-sewer was The Warsaw Ghetto 19:18  |  superjew 17/04/08
      57.   And another one confusing Judaism with zionism 19:19  |  John 17/04/08
      58.   Absurd Analogy 19:23  |  Peter R. 17/04/08
      59.   the washington post 19:32  |  Shmuelshachor 17/04/08
      60.   I want my apples and eat them too 19:48  |  Natalie Durson 17/04/08
      61.   ankh af na konsu? 19:49  |  93 17/04/08
      62.   Watch out for me denying my own posts 19:50  |  Natalie Durson 17/04/08
      63.   the gazan cesspool 19:52  |  real vision 17/04/08
      64.   It is probably the last week of Mahmoudy in Gaza 19:54  |  Genuine Tosefta 17/04/08
      65.   37Sam,27 Fight,sad to say the Gandhian method will not work in 19:56  |  lakshmi 17/04/08
      66.   Arch-terrorist wants Warsaw ghetto? Let`s give it to him! 19:56  |  Genuine Tosefta 17/04/08
      67.   #12 Swiss(Dino) - You should read what the guy actually said. 19:57  |  JP 17/04/08
      68.   International justice demands that Arabs have 23 countries 19:59  |  Genuine Tosefta 17/04/08
      69.   Warsaw Ghto Jews slated for murder; Gaza residents commit murder 20:03  |  JP 17/04/08
      70.   If Gazans are Jews of Warsaw then Jews must be Muslims of Mecca 20:04  |  Genuine Tosefta 17/04/08
      71.   To: Darth Zaider (Ed) 20:11  |  Knott Bushman 17/04/08
      72.