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David Ignatius on building a Palestinian state...Netanyahu rightly rejects as a unilateral move. And it's certainly a better alternative than just letting the problem fester, which only benefits Hamas, the extremist group that controls Gaza. "What we're focusing on is to get ready for... In this article: West Bank, United States, Binyamin Netanyahu, Ramallah, Mahmoud Abbas, and Gaza |
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JPost.com Front Page Top Stories | 3 days ago
Kouchner: Progress made in Schalit talks
...to foreign media reports on the matter." Meanwhile, in Gaza, a charity headed by the Hamas interior minister on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts a soldier. Palestinians have frequently called on...
In this article: Gilad Schalit, Bernard Kouchner, Gaza, Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel, and E mail
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Yahoo! News | 5 days ago
Israel approves new homes in east Jerusalem (AFP)
...and lead to unilateral actions from Israel." And the Islamist movement Hamas, a bitter rival of Abbas's Fatah rival, also poured cold water on the move for international recognitiion. "The proclamation of a Palestinian state should be...
In this article: Jerusalem, Israel, Mahmud Abbas, United States, Agence France Presse, Bernard Kouchner, European Union, Washington, and Benjamin Netanyahu
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Telegraph.co.uk - International news | 4 days ago
US 'dismayed' by Israel's new settlements in Jerusalem
...Authority. Mr Abbas, under pressure from his own Fatah party as well as the militant group Hamas, which has control over the Gaza strip, has said he will not agree to talks until there is a freeze on settlement building. The interior...
In this article: Jerusalem, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, Nicolas Sarkozy, White House, Washington, Saudi Arabia, and Fatah
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Reuters | November 13, 2009
Israelis seen backing possible talks with Hamas
...blaming Netanyahu for a delay in peace talks stalled since December. He has since agreed to delay a scheduled Palestinian poll after objections voiced by Hamas. Despite the support for Mofaz's ideas, Netanyahu had also gained greater...
In this article: Benjamin Netanyahu, Shaul Mofaz, Israel, Mahmoud Abbas, All rights reserved, Haaretz, Kadima, and Thomson Reuters
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Zahar: Israel serious about Schalit
...serious about Schalit The Netanyahu government is working continuously to achieve a prisoner exchange deal and secure the release of captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit, Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar said on Saturday. Zahar added that,...
In this article: Mahmoud Zahar, Gilad Schalit, Binyamin Netanyahu, and Israel
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washingtonpost.com | November 10, 2009
Netanyahu: Obama talks aided Israel security, peace
...Netanyahu, said in a radio interview that the White House meeting had included a discussion of Iran, whose nuclear program and support for Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas are cited by Israel as obstacles to peacemaking. Israel...
In this article: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Barack Obama, Mahmoud Abbas, Bernard Kouchner, United States, Nicolas Sarkozy, West Bank, White House, and Jerusalem
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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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