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<p><strong>PNN &#8211; Palestine News Network &#8211; 22.09.11 &#8211; 15:35 </strong></p>
<p>A delegation from Hamas headed on Thursday to Damascus to participate in the meeting of the movement&#8217;s political bureau. Hamas Commander Mahmoud Zahar told the London-based al-Hayat newspaper before leaving Cairo that the meeting was routine and not concerned with the Palestinian bid at the United Nations.</p>
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<p>&#8220;Hamas&#8217;s position is unified,&#8221; said Zahar. &#8220;We think going to the UN is a useless political leap as any state that would be declared will be out of line with the resistance.&#8221;</p>
<p>He condemned Abbas&#8217;s attempts to get a full membership for a Palestinian state and asked, &#8220;Would recognizing a state mean land and people&#8230;.what are the borders of this state that doesn&#8217;t have borders?&#8221;</p>
<p>Zahar pointed out that President Obama sees a Palestinian state starting from the 1967 borders and not on the 1967 borders, meaning the nearly 6 million Palestinian refugees will lose their right to return to homes in what is now Israel.</p>
<p>Zahar took issue with Mahmoud Abbas&#8217; earlier statements that Jews had a &#8220;tangible connection&#8221; to Palestine and warned that this meant Palestinian recognition of Zionist land ownership.</p>
<p>Zahar denied any serious problems inside the Hamas movement and also that the movement had fled Damascus.</p>
<p>&#8220;No one talked about the movement&#8217;s leaders leaving Damascus,&#8221; Zahar explained, &#8220;and I have no idea about these pressures.&#8221;</p>
<p>Zahar said some Hamas leaders had left Damascus for Gaza but claimed they had personal issues.</p>
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<strong>Something to ponder about…</strong><br />
For who not sees or who’s eyes are still closes. IOA has become exactly and even worse than those, they feared and hated once themselves. Using the same atrocities, policies to oppress, ethnically cleanse and eradicate human beings. Creating a new Shoah (Holocaust) for the Palestinians in 1948 with Al Nakba, and sustaining it by hasbara and the world’s ignorance or at least those not using their own mind to reconsider the realistic facts. So Hasbara in 16 words explained:</p>
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<div data-shortcode="caption" id="attachment_48023" style="width: 272px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/israel-arms-trains-illegal-settlers-for-rampage-in-occupied-palestine-in-pictures/"><img loading="lazy" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-48023" data-attachment-id="48023" data-permalink="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/fatah-no-agreement-with-hamas-to-prevent-un-bid-rallies/settlers-train-violence-rampage-avatar/" data-orig-file="https://occupiedpalestine.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/settlers-train-violence-rampage-avatar.jpg" data-orig-size="262,172" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="Settlers-train-violence-rampage-avatar" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://occupiedpalestine.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/settlers-train-violence-rampage-avatar.jpg?w=262" data-large-file="https://occupiedpalestine.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/settlers-train-violence-rampage-avatar.jpg?w=262" class="size-full wp-image-48023" title="Settlers-train-violence-rampage-avatar" src="https://occupiedpalestine.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/settlers-train-violence-rampage-avatar.jpg?w=262&#038;h=172" alt="" width="262" height="172" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-48023" class="wp-caption-text">Israel supplies weapons and training to illegal colonists in Palestine</p></div>
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<div style="width: 272px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-6Zs"><img src="https://occupiedpalestine.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/avatar-ethnic-cleansing-negev.jpg?w=262&#038;h=172" alt="" width="262" height="172" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Click to see the Album Ethnic Cleansing of Negev Bedouin</p></div>
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<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong><a class="alignnone" href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/crimes-against-christianity/" target="_blank">Zionist Crimes Against Christianity</a></strong></span></span><br />
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<div style="width: 272px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-6fj"><img src="https://occupiedpalestine.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/christians-palestine.jpg?w=262&#038;h=172" alt="" width="262" height="172" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Click to see the Album: Christians in Palestine</p></div>
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