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Old 11-20-2012, 11:55 AM   #1
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I just don't get it. How can anyone favor Hamas, an Iranian tied terrorist group whose core tenets are based upon genocide?
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Hamas (Arabic: حماس‎ Ḥamās, "enthusiasm", an acronym of حركة المقاومة الاسلامية Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah, "Islamic Resistance Movement")
is the Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist[5] political party[neutrality is disputed] that governs the Gaza Strip.

Hamas has a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.[6]

Since June 2007 Hamas has governed the Gaza portion of the Palestinian Territories,
after it won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Parliament in the January 2006
Palestinian parliamentary elections[7] and then defeated the Fatah political organization
in a series of violent clashes.

Israel, the United States,[8] Canada,[9] the European Union,[10][11] and Japan classify Hamas
as a terrorist organization,[12][13] while Arab nations, Russia,[14] and Turkey[15] do not.
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Old 11-20-2012, 12:03 PM   #2
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Can you imagine what would happen if a neighboring nation fired rockets onto our soil?
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