The founder of Hamas predicted that Israel would be destroyed and a Palestinian state established during the first quarter of the next century. “The strong will not remain strong forever and the weak will not remain weak forever,” Sheik Ahmed Yassin told a news conference in Damascus after meeting with Syrian leaders and the heads of radical Palestinian groups. Yassin, released from an Israeli prison last year, has made frequent calls for the destruction of the Jewish state during a tour of eight countries in the Middle East and Persian Gulf.
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