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Brazil's President Elbows U.S. on the Diplomatic Stage...of Mr. Ahmadinejad. Mr. Abbas, the Palestinian leader, said after meeting Mr. da Silva in Brazil on Friday that he had asked him to urge Iran to end its support for Hamas, the radical Islamist movement that controls Gaza. But both Mr. Abbas... In this article: Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, United States, Middle East, Celso Amorim, Mahmoud Abbas, and Washington |
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washingtonpost.com | November 11, 2009
Israel shows documents it says link Iran to arms
...for the Syrian port of Latakia. Israel has showcased the haul as proof of its long-standing contention that Iran is supplying large quantities of arms to Hezbollah and Hamas militants in Gaza. Israel says the confiscated arms cache -...
In this article: Israel, Iran, Hezbollah, Polyethylene, U.N., and Isfahan
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JPost.com Front Page Top Stories | 4 days ago
Interview: Planning for the unthinkable - a nuclear Iran
...a number of years, Pollack assessed. But in so doing, Israel would have to assume that Iran would retaliate through its allies Hamas and Hizbullah, which are armed and stationed on Israel's borders. A strike intended to strengthen the...
In this article: Kenneth Pollack, Iran, Iraq, Israel, US Intelligence Community, Saddam Hussein, South Africa, Iraq War, Invading Iraq, and Brookings Institution
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Miami Herald - Opinion | 2 days ago
Obama's clumsy efforts breed mistrust
...for peace and support hardliners. If the Palestinians don't think Washington will protect Israel, they will revert to the view, still held by Hamas and Iran, that Israel can and should be destroyed. The Miami Herald is pleased to provide...
In this article: Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, Israel, Washington, Fatah, East Jerusalem, West Bank, and The White House
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AP Online | 6 days ago
Hamas-linked group offers cash for Israeli capture
...pay Gaza residents for information on the whereabouts of Sgt. Gilad Schalit, an Israeli soldier captured more than three years ago by Hamas-allied militants. The Born to Freedom Foundation offered $10 million for information pertaining to...
In this article: Gilad Schalit, Gaza, Israel, E mail, Bernard Kouchner, Lebanon, and Nicolas Sarkozy
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PM tries to jump-start talks with Syria
...parties and his comments were carried by state-run SANA news agency. Syria is allied with Hamas and Hizbullah as well as Iran, all of which want to destroy Israel. Still, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night,...
In this article: Binyamin Netanyahu, Nicolas Sarkozy, Syria, Ehud Barak, Bashar Assad, Israel, Barack Obama, Paris, Ehud Olmert, and Bernard Kouchner
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Cellphone alert system expected in 2 yrs
...a need to set off a nationwide alert," he said. Soffer estimated that the total amount of rocket-delivered explosives possessed by Iran, Hizbullah, and Hamas is no more than 3,000 tons. "For the sake of comparison, 3,000 tons of...
In this article: Gaza, Israel, World War II, 1991 Gulf War, Arrow 2, and Hizbullah
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Hamas (حماس Ḥamās, an acronym of حركة المقاومة الاسلامية Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamat al-Islāmiyyah, meaning "Islamic Resistance Movement") is a Palestinian Islamic socio-political organization which includes a paramilitary force, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Since June 2007, after winning a large majority in the Palestinian Parliament and defeating rival Palestinian party Fatah in a series of violent clashes, described by some journalists, experts and publications as a preemptive response to fears of a 'U.S.-backed coup', Hamas has governed the Gaza portion of the Palestinian Territories. The European Union, the United States, Israel, Canada, and Japan have classified Hamas as a terrorist organization, while the United Kingdom and Australia apply this classification to only the military wing of Hamas.
Hamas was created in 1987 by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi and Mohammad Taha of the Palestinian wing of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood at the beginning of the First Intifada, an uprising against Israeli rule in the Palestinian Territories. Hamas launched numerous suicide bombings against Israelis, the first of them in April, 1993. Hamas ceased the attacks in 2005 and renounced them in April, 2006. Hamas has also been responsible for rocket attacks, improvised explosive device attacks, and shootings, but it reduced those operations in 2005 and 2006.
Through its funding and management of schools, health-care clinics, mosques, youth groups, athletic clubs and day-care centers, Hamas by the mid-1990s had attained a "well-entrenched" presence in the West Bank and Gaza. An estimated 80% to 90% of Hamas revenues fund health, social welfare, religious, cultural, and educational services.
- Local Name:
- حركة المقاومة الاسلامية
- Headquarters:
- Gaza
- Founder:
- Sheikh Ahmed Yassin
- Head:
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- Senior members
- Khaled Mashaal
- Mahmoud Zahar
- Ismail Haniyah
- Not publicly disclosed.
- Ideology:
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- Religious nationalism
- Islamism
- Palestinian nationalism
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