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I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip. -- John Bolton
I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel. -- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel. -- John Boehner
Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press. -- Dennis Prager
It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression. -- Ahmed Yassin
Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs. -- Ahmed Yassin
Hamas is a humanitarian organization. -- Nancy Pelosi
Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Give Hamas 90 days to pick a lane, then react. -- Geraldo Rivera
There's no doubt that Iran funds and supplies Hamas with weapons. -- John Bolton
Those who elected Hamas in Palestine did so on the basis of its political platform. -- Hassan Nasrallah
Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield. -- Ahmed Yassin
The Hamas organization is explicitly dedicated to the destruction of Israel. That is not a rhetorical gimmick; it is its declared unwavering primary goal. -- James Howard Kunstler
Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel. -- Zach Wamp
Hamas cannot make peace with the Israelis. That is against what their God tells them. It is impossible to make peace with infidels, only a ceasefire. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
Most people heard about Hamas after Hamas started carrying out terrorist attacks. Hamas started out as an idea. Let's say a noble idea - resisting occupation. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people. -- Vito Fossella
Hamas, they are using civilians' lives, they are using children, they are using the suffering of people every day to achieve their goals. And this is what I hate. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
[Hamas] thought that if you go to elections you become a democrat for the rest of your life. They think that democracy is limited to one day in four years. -- Shimon Peres
The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence. -- Alcee Hastings
If the Hamas people had the opportunity, they would kill the maximum number of Israelis, which would be all. And, Israel has the opportunity to kill way more, and they do not. -- Bill Maher
Hamas thinks they can kill the will of people by intimidation. Most of those who are killed in the Gaza Strip for the suspicion of collaborating with Israel, have nothing to do with Israel. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
We all know a lot of people who died in 9/11, the World Trade Center. A lot of money funding that mission is directly tied - from the 9/11 Commission, directly tied to Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas. -- Barack Obama
Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isnt that really quite incredible? -- Warren Christopher
Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible? -- Warren Christopher
It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry capable of delivering all types of weapons of mass destruction. -- Don Nickles
Hamas murders not only Israelis, but also Palestinians whose political stance is different from that which its group promotes; that is, its radical religious outlook in which Islam is the solution to the world's problems. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well, that was followed by a missile exchange for a couple of weeks in both directions. -- Noam Chomsky
Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006. -- Elliott Abrams
The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world -- Ahmed Yassin
Hamas is firing at our cities, at our people, firing from these areas, from these homes, from these schools, from mosques, from hospitals. They are actually using them as weapon storage, as command posts and as firing positions, or right next to them. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world. -- Ahmed Yassin
The victory of Hamas is not only based on the corruption of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas has a vision and a program, and this is the reason why the Palestinian people chose Hamas. However, there is no doubt that the corruption helped Hamas's victory. -- Ismail Haniyeh
The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation. -- Ismail Haniyeh
[Hamas] lives on their rifles and bombs. -- Shimon Peres
Opposing [Donald]Trump aligns you with Hamas. -- Keith Ellison
Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization. -- Lois Capps
Hamas is responsible and Hamas should held accountable for civilian deaths. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel uses weapons to safeguard civilians. Hamas uses civilians to safeguard weapons. -- Mark Pellegrino
Hamas married the Iranians. It was their choice. They are the same family. -- Shimon Peres
The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed. -- Moshe Katsav
I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel. -- George W. Bush
If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened. -- Elliott Abrams
The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state. -- Aaron Klein
I for one do not negotiate with Hamas and believe it is a mistake to do so. -- Tzipi Livni
I do not support Hamas! I support human dignity and respect! I support sharing! I support Peace! #ceasefire -- Madonna Ciccone
The Hamas movement will lead Intifada after Intifada until we liberate Palestine "? all of Palestine, Allah willing. -- Ismail Haniyeh
if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault. -- Naftali Bennett
I saw no evidence during my week in Gaza of Israel's accusation that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields. -- Jeremy Bowen
I heard this rumor that al Qaeda is merging with Hamas. Yeah, I got that tip from Martha Stewart. -- David Letterman
It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do. -- Mark Steyn
The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel. -- Elliott Abrams
If Hamas wants to be part of the real world, it has to end up accepting Israel's right to exist. -- Jonas Gahr Store
Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance. -- Lois Capps
Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel. -- Aaron Klein
Hamas has long been Israel's enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before. -- Richard Engel
We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets. -- Tzachi Hanegbi
To the extent that Israel does face threats, like from say Hamas or Hezbollah, those are threats that do not jeopardise Israel's existence. -- Stephen Walt
Our resolution urges all Latin American and Caribbean countries to designate al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations. -- Tom Lantos
A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who. -- Ralph Peters
Whether you call it terrorism or resistance, and whether you like Hamas or not, it is a political entity that no one can ignore. -- Bashar al-Assad
The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence -- Michael Medved
The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence. -- Michael Medved
I think that it's an arguable position, whether with Hamas and ISIS around, whether there should be a Palestinian state, but it's a defensible position, given the current circumstances. -- David Brooks
Abbas is on his way to becoming a professor of terrorism. After denying the Holocaust in his doctoral thesis, he now claims that Hamas is not a terrorist organization. -- Danny Danon
The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror. -- Elliott Abrams
I don't think the Palestinians are in this position they're in, divided with Hamas and the P.A., unwilling to allow - or recognize Israel as a Jewish state. -- David Brooks
The issue of motherhood is no longer salient. In fact, the very first female bomber for Hamas posed in her last will and testament video with her two kids. -- Mia Bloom
Hamas will not disappear. Hamas will not raise the white flag. Hamas has the trust of the people, and anyone who wishes to destroy it must destroy an entire people. -- Bashar al-Assad
Hamas is simply continuing all its operations. And Israel will not let this terror operation decide when it's convenient for them and not convenient for them to attack our people. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
If Hamas continues to threaten the security of the state of Israel, I believe Israel has the ability and the capacity to control the borders and cut off the weapons supply. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
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Today's endorsement by President Barack Obama of the creation of a Hamas-led Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders signals the most egregious foreign policy decision his administration has made to date. -- Allen West
In 2009, Hamas was relatively new to power. It had won elections just three years earlier and was flexing its newfound strength via a war with its old enemy, Israel, which it officially wants destroyed. -- Richard Engel
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
Hamas was born to destroy. Hamas does not know how to build. I doubt they will be able to build a modern Palestinian state and hope their lies will be exposed to the Palestinian public. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
Understanding Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left, is extremely important. That does not stop us from being critical of certain dimensions of both movements. -- Judith Butler
The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don't say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed. -- Moshe Katsav
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
The claim that Israel seeks to annihilate the Palestinians is simply a lie. Israel seeks to stop rocket attacks and tunnel invasions, and as long as Hamas is dedicated to those actions, they can expect a forceful Israeli reaction. -- James Howard Kunstler
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
Hamas does not care about the lives of Palestinians. [They don't] care about the lives of Israelis or Americans. They don't care about their own lives. They consider dying for the sake of their ideology a way of worship. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as a political force, then we will be doomed to failure in every encounter we have with the world. -- Hooman Majd
Hezbollah, Hamas, Al-Qaeda, they all have ties to Iranian money. I think they are the biggest exist - existential threat. Russia could be up there, but it would probably be to one of our NATO allies rather than the homeland. -- Eric Bolling
Israel can make peace with an organization that seeks its destruction. That's Hamas. But Israel can make peace with the Palestinian Authority. It requires a lot of courage from both sides including President Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
If you look at groups in the Palestine region, Hamas and the Palestine Islamic jihad, more often than not in their first operations they would accidentally blow themselves up on the way to the target or the bomb wouldn't go off. -- Michael Scheuer
It's not just Israel who refuses to speak to Hamas. It's the whole international community"¦ Most of the democratic world refuses to have a relationship with Hamas because Hamas has refused to meet the most minimal benchmarks of international behavior. -- Mark Regev
Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound. -- Abdallah II
For the Palestinians, efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure. . . Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on a path of terror and rejection. And Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist. -- Barack Obama
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
Any Hamas or Zionist type who tries to interfere with the labor unions and grab the money will be marched to the guillotines and subsequently beheaded. And isn't that easier and more productive than some endless, bloody conflict? So sayeth the gospel of common sense. Happy Mother's Day. -- Roseanne Barr
Iran's continued drive to develop nuclear capabilities, including troubling enrichment activities and past work on weaponization documented by the IAEA, and its continued support to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist organizations make clear that the regime in Tehran is a very grave threat to all of us. -- Leon Panetta
The problem is not Hamas, the problem is not people. The root of the problem is Islam itself as an idea, as an idea. And about Hamas as an organization, of course, the Hamas leadership, including my father, they're responsible; they're responsible for all the violence that happened from the organization. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
The reason why no one had spoken to [Iranians] for the last years is because they sponsored Hezbollah, Hamas, the Palestinians, Al Qaeda, 9/11. The last time anyone spoke to the Iranians was when Ronald Reagan said, 'I've just been elected and you better let our hostages go or you guys are absolutely screwed'. -- Eric Bolling
I know people who support Hamas, but they never got involved in terrorist attacks, for example... they follow Hamas because they love God and they think that Hamas represents God. They don't have knowledge, they don't know the real God, and they never studied Christianity. But Hamas, as representative for Islam, it's a big problem. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with. -- Lawrence Eagleburger

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