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Washington and Israel conspired to initiate "coup d'etat (ferment) that created the new sectarian paradigm with Fatah and the continuing warfare against and enforced isolation of Gazans."
At the time, Zahar said he buried his son, Hussam, three months ago. Israel murdered him. In 2003, he buried his first-born, Khaled. An Israeli F-16 targeted him, wounded his daughter and wife, and leveled the house where he lived.
Many neighbors and friends were killed. In 2007, Israel murdered his son-in-law. "(A)fter decades of imprisonment, killing, statelessness and impoverishment," he asked:
"What peace can there be if there is no dignity first? And where does dignity come from if not from justice?"Hamas continues its liberating struggle, he said, because "we cannot allow the foundational crime at the core of the Jewish state - the violent expulsion from our lands and villages that made us refugees - to slip out of world consciousness, forgotten or negotiated away."
Judaism gave so much to so many for so long, he added. Zionism practiced violence, racism, and apartheid. Palestinians can't make peace without a willing partner. Israel spurns it.
It maintains occupation harshness. It steals Palestinian land. It persecutes its people. It rules by the barrel of the gun. Redressing decades of crimes takes time.
"(A)dversity taught us patience," said Zahar. "In the end, it is always a question of our children and those who come after us."
Hamas in Arabic means courage and bravery. It's also an abbreviation of the Arabic words meaning Islamic Resistance Movement.
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