Mahmoud Al-Zahar Co-Founder of Hamas

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Mahmould al-Zahar From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mahmoud al-Zahar (born 1945) is a co-founder of Hamas, and a member of Hamas's leadership in the Gaza Strip. Since the formation of the Hamas/"Change and Reform" government in the Palestinian National Authority in March 2006, al-Zahar has served as foreign minister in the government of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. Little is known about al-Zahar's early life beyond the report that he was born to a Palestinian father and an Egyptian mother. At the age of 26, he graduated from the Cairo University Faculty of Medicine and five years later he got his Masters Degree in General Surgery from Ain Shams University, Cairo. He then became the advisor to the Palestinian Health Minister, and helped create the Palestinian Medical Society and was one of the primary founders of the Islamic University in Gaza in 1978. Instrumental to the creation of Hamas in 1987, al-Zahar has remained a senior official and spokesperson for the group and is rumoured to have succeeded to leadership of the group following Israel's assassination of Ahmed Yassin in 2004. Hamas routinely denied this rumour, but refused to name who their new leader was, for fear of Israeli reprisals. Mahmoud al-Zahar has described the creation of "Hamastan" as a goal of Hamas. "When asked by a Newsweek reporter (August 30, 2005) whether the Gaza Strip would become “Hamastan”, Mahmoud al-Zahar responded: 'It should be Hamastan'." The most notable attempt on al-Zahar's life was on September 10, 2003, when Israeli F-16s dropped a large bomb over his house in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza, which only managed to slightly wound him, while his son Khaled, and a personal bodyguard were killed, and twenty others wounded including his daughter Rima. His house was destroyed, and ten other houses nearby were damaged, as well as the nearby Al-Rahman mosque. The resulting funeral was attended by over two thousand mourners, who called on Hamas to avenge the deaths. On January 15, 2008, al-Zahar's son Hussam was reportedly killed in an IDF air strike on a car full of Hamas militants in northern Gaza. The First Amendment "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Can You Help Support US Exercise The First Amendment? Click Here To Shop Our Exclusive & Patriotic Products or use the button below to PAY your respects! "When The First Amendment Falls, So Shall The End Begin..." Addison B. Bachman

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