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Thursday, July 24, 2014
There was no Hamas in the 1940s
"Ruins of the Semiramis Hotel, located in the Palestinian residential quarter of Bak'a in West Jerusalem. On 5 January 1948, the day after members of the Haganah blew up the hotel, killing twenty civilian guests including women and children".