Hamas Fires Missile into Israeli Mall and Declare: "Our Welcome to President Bush", Dozens Wounded

As President Bush met in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Hamas (or one of its sub-groups) fired a missile from Gaza into a shopping mall in the City of Ashkelon wounding dozens, mostly women and children, and exposing the weakness of both leaders.

Meanwhile, Hamas Leader Mahmoud al-Zahar declared that:

"The Palestinians and the Arabs have crushed the Jews' assumption of supremacy… The Zionist legend of invincibility has been destroyed. Now more than ever I tell you – we will never recognize Israel… We will form the Palestinian state on all of Palestine's territories and the sun of liberty will burn the Zionists. To them I say – you will lose. You will leave and we will keep hounding you. The blood of our slain sons will haunt you forever,"

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also weighed in today:

"The Zionist (Israeli) regime is dying, The criminals assume that by holding celebrations ... they can save the sinister Zionist regime from death and annihilation. They should know that regional nations hate this fake and criminal regime and if the smallest and briefest chance is given to regional nations they will destroy (it)."

History will show that they declared their intentions openly, clearly, and without hesitation.