[Reader-list] Hamas Fact Sheet

[Kath O'Donnell]

I think their mission is quite clear  - even outlined on Hamas'
website : http://www.alqassam.ps/english/?action=aboutus
they speak about Zionists/Zionism rather than 'Israel' - I think this
is an interesting use of terminology. as I understand it, whilst there
is a majority of Jewish people in Israel, their government is a
secular one - the 'zionists' don't rule the country - though they do
have some influence of course. I suppose it's because they don't
recognise 'Israel' as a state/country.


2009/1/10 Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com>:
> http://www.adl.org/main_israel/hamas_facts.htm
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> Since its founding in 1987 in Gaza by Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, Hamas - an Arabic
> acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement meaning "zeal" - has been committed
> to destroying the Jewish state and replacing it with an Islamic state in all
> of Palestine.
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