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'You're a terrorist': Tony Blair taunted by young Palestinian in West Bank mosqueLast month, the head of a Palestinian group in Gaza that supports Al Qaeda revealed they had tried to assassinate 'the infidel' Mr Blair and former U.S. president Jimmy Carter but the plots were foiled by Gaza's ruling group Hamas. Mr... In this article: Tony Blair, EU, West Bank, Hebron, Middle East, Al Qaeda, United Nations, Gaza, and Hamas |
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Deseret News | September 21, 2009
Carter says Israel must stop building settlements
...month to support Israelis and Palestinians seeking peace. In June, he went to Gaza and met with leaders of Hamas, which the United States, European Union and Israel have refused to deal with directly because they consider it a terror group.
In this article: Jimmy Carter, Israel, West Bank, Middle East, Virginia, E mail, Camp David Accords, James Madison University, and Rosalynn Carter
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Huffington Post | October 19, 2009
New Books On Hamas: Government Or Terrorist Organization?
...against Israel. They set up new cells, variously claiming affiliation with al-Qaeda and ridding Gaza of idolatry with such acts as removing the statue of Palestine's unknown soldier from Gaza City's central square. One of the largest...
In this article: Gaza, Fatah, Yasser Arafat, Israel, Qassam Brigades, Islamic, God, Palestine, and Khaled Meshaal
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The Australian | October 29, 2009
Hamas adept at playing spoiler
...right of return" to Israel. Moreover, Hamas has persistently refused to accede to the consistent demand of Egyptian intelligence head General Omar Suleiman that it adhere to past Israeli-Palestinian agreements. Clearly, Hamas's ideological...
In this article: Fatah, Jimmy Carter, Khaled Meshal, Gaza, US, Israel, West Bank, and Ideology
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The Times of India - World | September 08, 2009
Hamas foiled plot to kill Carter, Blair: Al-Qaida
Hamas foiled plot to kill Carter, Blair: Al-Qaida Hamas foiled plot to assassinate Carter, Blair: Al-Qaida PTI 8 September 2009, 04:17pm IST JERUSALEM: A Gaza based pro al-Qaida group has claimed that it tried to assassinate former US...
In this article: Al-qaida, Tony Blair, Jimmy Carter, Ideology, Gaza, Jihad, Allah, and Asharq Al-Awsat
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NPR | April 21, 2008
Ex-President Carter Meets with Hamas Leaders : NPR
Ex-President Carter Meets with Hamas Leaders : NPR Ex-President Carter Meets with Hamas Leaders Morning Edition, April 21, 2008 · Former President Jimmy Carter defied warnings from U.S. and Israeli officials and met over the weekend with...
In this article: Jimmy Carter, NPR, U.S., and Israel
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National Geographic News | June 17, 2009
WEEK IN PHOTOS: Tomato Fight, Toxic Lake, More
...livelihoods after the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict. On June 16, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter met with Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip and implored them to consider Israel a state. But a senior Hamas official said that "the visit has...
In this article: West Bank, National Geographic News, Jimmy Carter, Ramallah, Gaza Strip, U.S., and Israel
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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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