Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, a Sunni Muslim fundamentalist group that rejects all discussion with Israel, including the current Israeli-PLO negotiations. Responsible for many terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and Palestinian so-called "collaborators" with Israel. Recent evidence has indicated that Hamas carries out substantial fundraising and organizational work in the United States.
Palestinian nationalist group founded by Shaikh Ahmad Yasin in 1987. has religious basis, unlike Fatah, and is the latter's chief rival
terrorist group founded in 1987 as an outgrowth of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Principal political rival Arafat's Fatah (PLO) organization. Has tens of thousands of Palestinian supporters and sympathizers, but number of hard-core terrorists is unknown.
An Arabic acronym; it stand for the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement.
Islamic resistance movement, established in 1988, wants a religious state in Palestine
a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon; seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel; is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel; pioneered suicide bombing
Arabic for "zeal." Hamas is a Palestinian Islamism political group founded in 1988 with the goal of waging a jihad against Israel in order to liberate Palestine.
A radical Islamic organization operating primarily in the Gaza Strip and West Bank whose goal is to establish an Islamic Palestinian state in place of Israel. Hamas operates openly through the delivery of social services, but its activists have also conducted many attacks, including suicide bombings, against Israeli civilians and military targets.
Catch all opposition group. An Islamic opposition group fostered by the Israeli secret services during the first intifada. Its purpose was to undermine the support for the PLO. Since then it has become an effective opposition force opposed to Arafat's sell out. Anyone voicing criticism of the "peace process" is automatically classed as a Hamas supporter. Several leading intellectuals who objected to Arafat's shoddy approach to negotiations earned themselves a Hamas label by both Israelis and the Palestinian "authority".
The common name for the Islamic Resistance Movement, a militant Islamic group with the aim of establishing a Palestinian state incorporating Israel and the West Bank.
The biggest of the militant Islamist groups which aspire to the destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic state of Palestine.
(Arabic) Islamist Palestinian party that believes all of Palestine is a holy Muslim waqf, and that no part may be surrendered to foreigners. The Hamas Charter quotes the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
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Hamas (; acronym: , or Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya or "Islamic Resistance Movement"; the Arabic acronym means "zeal") is a Palestinian Islamist organization that currently (since January 2006) forms the majority party of the Palestinian National Authority.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4650788.stm "BBC NEWS" Hamas sweeps to election victory