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January 4, 2005
Palestinian Abbas Calls Israel 'The Zionist Enemy'
Topics: Middle East News and PerspectivesJanuary 04, 2005 4:27 a.m. ET
GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called Israel "the Zionist enemy" Tuesday, unprecedented language for the relative moderate who is expected to succeed Yasser Arafat.
Abbas, campaigning ahead of a Jan. 9 presidential election, was speaking after Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians at a strawberry farm in Gaza following a mortar attack by militants there that wounded Jewish settlers.
"We are praying for the souls of our martyrs who fell today to the shells of the Zionist enemy," he told a campaign rally in Khan Younis, a stronghold of militants waging a 4-year-old uprising.
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