At the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Israeli President Isaac Herzog revealed a book titled "The End of the Jews", which was found in a residential home in Gaza and written by one of the founders of the terrorist organization Hamas.
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The book, which has been described as a "blueprint for the annihilation of the Jewish people", was discovered in the Al-Furqan neighborhood in the Gaza Strip, and was showcased during a conversation with senior commentator David Ignatius on the stage of the Security Conference.
The author of the book is Mahmoud az-Zahar, one of the founders of Hamas and former foreign minister of the Palestinian Authority, once again proving the antisemitic ideology of the Hamas terrorist organization, whose core is the hatred of Jews and a call for their annihilation; a call that was translated into the monstrous October 7 terror attack.
The book was discovered and seized by security forces, and it describes the allegedly justified hatred of Jews throughout history. For example, it notes that while the family of nations and its leaders defined the Nazis, who acted to annihilate the Jewish people, as having committed crimes against humanity, the Nazis are in fact an important and worthy role model for many around the world.
The chapters of the book focus on hatred of the Jewish people and justify the persecution and murder of Jews throughout history; among them are chapters titled "The World's Burning Hatred of Jews" and "Reasons to Expel the Jews".
"This book was written by Dr. Mahmoud az-Zahar, a well-known political figure of Hamas and one of its founders," Herzog said at the conference. "This book mainly says that there is no need to recognize that there are Jews, that there is a Jewish people, but mainly it glorifies the Holocaust, what the Nazis did, and calls on nations to follow in their footsteps. Now we are in Munich. On the outskirts of Munich, there is the Dachau concentration camp, where tens of thousands of Jews were massacred. And that's the problem, we need to form a coalition of all the moderate forces in the world, fighting this ideology."
During the conference, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said that he met with the Prime Minister of Qatar, and that the meeting was good. "I think he is advancing great efforts despite the difficulty and complexity. At the same time, we need to ensure that we know if there is someone making decisions on the other side. After all, we are dealing with people who are scattered and hiding all over Gaza, mainly in tunnels, and we need to know their whereabouts."
He also said there is concern over the issue of medication that has not yet reached the captives. "I think the most important thing is that everyone understands that if they want to move forward and see the horizon regarding this terrible situation, initiated by Hamas with unprecedented cruelty, the worst atrocities against Jews since World War II, atrocities of rape, slaughter, and burning, and of course abduction, then first and foremost, the issue of the captives must be resolved and they must be brought home safely as soon as possible."
At the end of Herzog's speech at the conference, former captives of Hamas and families of captives began shouting to the audience: "Bring them home now."
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