MAHMOUD AL-ZAHAR

Mahmoud al-Zahar, the group’s leading figure, gave a series of interviews in the run-up to the parliamentary elections in which he explained that the group sees no connection between the elections and the Oslo process--- which is dead anyway--- and that any cease-fire along the 1967 borders would not come with a recognition of Israel or relations with it, but would be merely a step in the continued struggle.

Secular system allows homosexuality, allows corruption … Islam is our Constitution.

It's not a matter of rejection (of Israel's existence). Israel is here, present by power.

In the Islamist Palestinian state, every citizen will be required to act in accordance with the codes of Islamic religious law.

The expulsion of the Jews will come from all of Palestine…. We will expel them.

Israel must remove the two blue stripes from its national flag. The stripes on the flag are symbols of occupation. They signify Israel's borders stretching from the River Euphrates to the River Nile.

If the method is able to liberate our land, to liberate our people from Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by the long-standing Israeli occupation, at that time we can discuss.

In the Islamist Palestinian state, every citizen will be required to act in accordance with the codes of Islamic religious law.

Secular system allows homosexuality, allows corruption … Islam is our Constitution.

The expulsion of the Jews will come from all of Palestine…. We will expel them.

Israel must remove the two blue stripes from its national flag. The stripes on the flag are symbols of occupation. They signify Israel's borders stretching from the River Euphrates to the River Nile.

If the method is able to liberate our land, to liberate our people from Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by the long-standing Israeli occupation, at that time we can discuss.

It's not a matter of rejection (of Israel's existence). Israel is here, present by power.