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Cleric 'made anti-Israel tirade'
RELATEDYOUR E-MAIL ALERTSLONDON, England -- Alleged race hate cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri made a speech condemning western leaders for behaving like sugar daddies to Israel because, he claimed, the country kept files on politicians for blackmail, a jury has heard. Egyptian-born Hamza, former head preacher at the Finsbury Park Mosque in north London, faces life in prison if convicted of inciting murder and stirring racial hatred in speeches recorded on nine video and audio tapes made for supporters. He denies all the charges. A video was played in the Old Bailey court in London on Monday of Hamza delivering a sermon in October 2000. In a loud, emphatic voice he tells his audience: "Now all these dogs of the West they have to go now, none of them have condemned what Israel has done to the Muslims and the Palestinians. "But as soon as three soldiers snatched from South Lebanon and some of them are being killed in Palestine they all go to their hands and knees -- Robin Cook (late British former Foreign Secretary) to go there on his hands and knees, even (former U.S. President Bill) Clinton. "Why they act like sugar daddy for Israel? Because they love the Israelis? No way! "Because they hate them very much, but the Israelis know how to deal with them. "They got a file for each one of these politicians, how much homosexual you are, how many money he has taken as bribe, whom his wife goes with, which child he has been abusing and they got all this against them. "Jews know how to control people. This is how they know how to control our leaders." Hamza said Muslims could not have a peace treaty with Jews. Allah had said that Muslims had placed enmity among them until judgment day. "They are enemies to one another and Allah has cursed them. "This is why he send Hitler for them. Jews they have nowhere to go, they are going to be buried in Palestine all of them." Hamza, 47, from west London, faces nine charges under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 alleging he solicited others at public meetings to murder Jews and other non-Muslims. He also faces four charges under the Public Order Act of 1986 of "using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior with the intention of stirring up racial hatred." Hamza also faces one charge of possessing threatening, abusive or insulting sound recordings, and another charge under anti-terrorism laws. The trial continues. Copyright 2006 CNN. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Associated Press contributed to this report. 
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