A community portal about Hamas with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Hamas is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist organization that currently forms the majority party of the Palestinian National Authority.
Abu Mohammed goes to great lengths to enjoy his wine in Gaza. Risking the wrath of the enclave's Islamist Hamas rulers, he sneaks to the rooftop of an abandoned house to make his own nectar of the gods. Here in his secret hideaway, Abu Mohammed carefully turns grapes into home-made vintages he savours only in the privacy of his own home, far away from the disapproving eyes of Hamas police and Gaza's conservative society. "I started making my own wine after Hamas took power," says the 40... Read Full Story
BBC reporters and other helpful types often labour mightily to find what they consider hidden, coyly inexpressed, conciliatory meanings in the speeches of the leaders of Hamas, the fundamentalist Islamic organization which controls the Gaza Strip. But they’ll have a hard time prettying up the speech Ismail Haniyeh delivered on Monday in Gaza City. Facing
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Hamas makes its intentions clear (again): ‘We will not be satisfied with Gaza’
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The top Hamas leader said he is concerned about the postelection turmoil in Iran but does not think it will endanger Tehran's support for the Palestinian militant group. The unrest triggered by the Iranian president's disputed June 12 re-election has consumed the country's leadership, raising questions about whether it can maintain its strong influence in other parts of the Middle East, including through its support for groups like Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah. Iran is a top supporter of... Read Full Story
The leader of Hamas on Sunday warned against Israel's proposal to temporarily halt settlement construction in exchange for normalization with Arab countries, describing it as "dangerous." Khaled Mashaal also told reporters during his brief visit to Cairo that despite new German mediation efforts, there was still a long way to go in negotiations over the release of an Israeli soldier held by the militant group since 2006. "As you know there has been a development with the German mediation... Read Full Story
In the live-fire exercise, everything was carefully choreographed — Palestinian commandos, faces blackened, stormed a hide-out in an abandoned building, "wounded" one gunman and "arrested" a second. But is this corps, American-trained and steadily growing, ready for the real thing? President Barack Obama's hopes for a Middle East peace breakthrough may rest heavily on that question. The force being shaped for the West Bank is supposed to underpin the Palestinian government of Western-backed... Read Full Story
The top leader of the militant Hamas group said Tuesday that President Barack Obama's pressure on Israel to freeze construction in West Bank settlements was an essential step toward restarting peace efforts. The militant group — which is eager to win international acceptance of its rule in Gaza though it is shunned by the U.S. and others as a terrorist organization — has tried to sound more pragmatic since Israel's punishing three-week offensive early this year. Leader Khaled Mashaal's... Read Full Story
Hamas' top political leader, in a message to the Obama administration, said the militant group is determined to be part of a solution to the Palestinians' conflict with Israel. The group's exiled leader, Khaled Mashaal, said in an interview with The New York Times published Tuesday, that Hamas has halted its rocket fire from the Gaza Strip on communities in southern Israel and is willing to support a two-state solution. Hamas, whose two-decade-old founding charter calls for Israel's... Read Full Story
Looking through Simply Jews I came across an interesting item that immediately caught my attention, the Ma’an News Agency (the Palestinian News Agency) is running various polls during the current Gaza conflagration. It asks Palestinians in all walks of life their opinions and I was quite surprised to see the sophistication of the average Palestinian at discerning the truth from the lies told by its leaders. While they are certainly nfar from being head over heels about Israel, the survey... Read Full Story
A senior Hamas official on Thursday criticized the prison sentences handed down by a U.S. court to members of a Muslim charity that sent aid to the militant Palestinian group, calling the ruling politically motivated and unjust. Hamas' deputy political leader, Moussa Abu Marzouk, said one of the men sentenced is a relative of his and another is the half brother of the group's top leader, Khaled Mashaal. The U.S. designated Hamas a terrorist organization in 1995, making it illegal to offer... Read Full Story
As the Israeli campaign against Hamas continues, let’s take a look at Hamas, and the character and vision of its leaders. The following is a video entitled Hamas: In Their Own Voices from MEMRI : [Link To Video]
Here is a Fatah official’s account of Hamas, as reported by the Jerusalem Post :
Fatah official: Hamas black and bloody militia
A Fatah official in Ramallah on Sunday launched a scathing attack on Hamas and described its leaders as “criminals.”
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