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Al-Jazeera TV host shores up Hamas and Islamic Jihad

Jamal Rayyan said “the Zionist entity is a foreign body on Palestinian and Arab land,” and that like the sea, Palestine “will spew out that which is foreign.”

Al-Jazeera TV Host Jamal Rayyan (Credit: YouTube on March 27: MEMRI)
Al-Jazeera TV Host Jamal Rayyan (Credit: YouTube on March 27: MEMRI)

Al-Jazeera TV host Jamal Rayyan said that “the Zionist entity is a foreign body on Palestinian and Arab land,” and that like the sea, Palestine “will spew out that which is foreign.”

“They will go back to where they came from,” he said.

Rayyan posted the video of his statements on YouTube on March 27.

While the comments are not altogether surprising, it does not add to the outlet’s news credibility.

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