A prominent Islamic scholar -- making a landmark visit to the Gaza Strip -- declared today (May 9, 2013) that Israel has no right to exist and voiced his support for rocket fire on Israel, giving a boost of legitimacy to the militant Islamist Hamas rulers of the Palestinian territory, according to the Yahoo News website.
Yusuf al-Qaradawi is the latest of a few high profile figures to visit Gaza, boosting the Hamas effort to break its international isolation. The U.S., EU, and Israel brand Hamas a terror group, while the rival Fatah -- which rules the West Bank -- enjoys Western backing.
Al-Qaradawi issued the strongest anti-Israel declarations of any of the visitors to date.
"This land has never once been a Jewish land. Palestine is for the Arab Islamic nation," said al-Qaradawi, a Qatar-based cleric made famous by his popular TV show and widely respected in the Muslim world. "The rockets made in Gaza are more powerful than the (Israeli) occupation's rockets," he added.
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