Hamas Leader: Why Recognize Israel? Arab State Must Replace It
 
When asked for his reaction to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's demand that Hamas recognize Israel's right to exist, Al-Zahar replied: "Why should we recognize Condoleezza Rice ... or Israel's right to exist? In this region we have faced Roman occupation, Persian occupation, Crusader occupation, British occupation, and they are all gone. The Israeli enemy does not belong to the region. It does not belong to the region's history, geography, or faith."

Al-Zahar added: "If today, we are unable to win the conflict decisively, for reasons known to all, we must not pass on to our sons a disgraceful defeat by recognizing the Israeli enemy's right to exist, where it has no such right."
 
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