Terror organization’s charter denies Jewish state’s right to exist. “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.” So states the Islamic charter of the militant Islamic group Hamas. This week’s bus bombing in Jerusalem, which killed 17 people, was a bloody reminder of Hamas’ power to strike Israel at any time. The organization, which has carried out dozens of attacks during the past 33 months of Israeli-Palestinian violence, called the attack “the beginning of a new series of revenge attacks . . . in which we will target every Zionist occupying our land.” In a statement, it blamed the attack on Israel’s attempt to assassinate its spokesman, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, in Gaza. Full Story
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