Hamas Quotes
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My patience ran out on President Assad a long time ago. The reason why is because he houses Hamas, he facilitates Hezbollah, suiciders go from his country into Iraq, and he destabilises Lebanon.
bashar al-assad— George W Bush, as quoted in Bush 'loses patience' with Syria, BBC News (20 December 2007)
Until that day, there can be no peace with Hamas. Peace at any price isn't peace; it's surrender.
— Eric Cantor (2011) cited in: "Leader Cantor's remarks to AIPAC" on majorityleader.gov, posted on May 22, 2011
We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets.
tzachi hanegbi— Public radio (March 23, 2004)
They are radical groups who identify with the violent jihad of Islamacist terror organizations like al-Qaeda, Hizbollah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas. And they have the support of a radical culture that regards America as the Great Satan, and Muslims and Arabs as the people whom America oppresses.
david horowitz— Horowitz, David (April 08, 2003). ""As a former 'Radical,' I see the threat of Militant Islam on our Campuses,"". jewishworldreview.com. Retrieved on 2010-01-05.
When Israel says that it will recognise Palestinian rights and will withdraw from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and grant the right of return, stop settlements and recognise the rights of the Palestinians to self-determination - only then will Hamas be ready to take a serious step.
khaled mashal— Khaled Mashal cited inTranscript: Khaled Meshaal interview at bbc.co.uk, 8 February 2006: Khaled Meshaal, tells the BBC's Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, that his organisation is ready to offer a long-term truce to Israel - as long as certain Palestinian rights are honoured.
The UN and the mainstream media are wailing and accusing Israel of war crimes (yes, again) after the IDF returned fire at a UN school from which Palestinians were firing mortars. The explosives and booby traps installed in the school by Hamas then blew up, killing dozens of people. And the world blames Israel.
charles foster johnson— January 6, 2009 [45]
Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. […] For Hamas, the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians.
charles krauthammer— Column, January 2, 2009, "Moral clarity in Gaza" at jewishworldreview.com.
I made it very clear, at that time, before and after, that we will not negotiate with terrorist organizations, that Hamas would have to abandon their terrorism, their advocacy to the extermination of the state of Israel, and be willing to negotiate in a way that recognizes the right of the state of Israel and abandons their terrorist position and advocacy.
john mccain— Speaking in Charleston, West Virginia, May 14, 2008
Hamas hides among unwitting civilians, who have no way of controlling its activities. This fact does not give Israel the right to kill innocent non-combatants, not even unintentionally. Besides, murder is not 'unintentional' when you know it is inevitable.
ilana mercer— “Standing Armies Commandeered by Cowards,” WorldNetDaily.com, November 23, 2012.
The youth of Hamas and all the mujahideen are familiar with Abbas and his methods, and therefore, they will be steadfast, Allah willing, and will carry out Jihad and martyrdom operations, which will blow up all his security agencies.
— Hamas MP Fathi Hammad Threatens to Use Suicide Bombings against Abu Mazen. MEMRI (August 10, 2007).
— . Hamas MP Fathi Hammad Threatens to Use Suicide Bombings against Abu Mazen
Hamas hides among unwitting civilians, who have no way of controlling its activities. This fact does not give Israel the right to kill innocent non-combatants, not even unintentionally. Besides, murder is not 'unintentional' when you know it is inevitable.
— “Standing Armies Commandeered by Cowards,” WorldNetDaily.com, November 23, 2012.
Some area Arabs and Muslims consider Hezbollah and Hamas resistance fighters, not terrorists, though groups such as the Council on American Islamic Relations recognize the terrorist designations and urge Muslims not to support the groups.
— Paul Egan, "Feds tie Dearborn charity to terror". The Detroit News. July 25, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-07-25.
Although Hezbollah and Hamas are not organizationally linked, Hezbollah provides military training as well as financial and moral support to the Palestinian group and has acted in some ways as a mentor or role model for Hamas, which has sought to emulate the Lebanese group’s political and media success. Hamas’s kidnapping of the Israeli soldier follows a different Hezbollah example. Moreover, two groups share the goal of driving Israel from occupied territories and ultimately eliminating it; both maintain close ties with Iran.
— From a CRS report for the U.S. Congress; Israel-Hamas-Hezbollah: The Current Conflict (PDF). CRS Report for Congress (July 21 2006). Retrieved on 2006-09-08.
The ruling Hamas movement in the Palestinian territories called the execution of Saddam a "political assassination." A Hamas spokesman, Fawzi Barhum, said, "Saddam Hussein was a prisoner of war. [The] hanging ... is a political assassination that violates all international laws that are supposed to protect prisoners of war.
— Hamas [10]
We will stand with Israel, because Israel is standing for American values as well as Israeli ones. [...] We will support Israel in her efforts to send a message to Hamas, Hezbollah, to the Syrians, to the Iranians - to all who seek death and domination instead of life and freedom - that we will not permit this to happen and we will take whatever steps are necessary.
— Hillary Rodham Clinton, July 17, 2006 [32]
The answer is to let Israel say it will recognize a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders, release the prisoners, and recognize the rights of the refugees to return to Palestine. Hamas will have a position if this occurs.
ismail haniyeh— Interview with Washington Post. "We Do Not Wish to Throw Them Into the Sea". Washington Post. February 26, 2006
