Is Hamas a terrorist organization?

Report from the Rocket Zone

November 16, 2012
By P. David Hornik

By Thursday night Israel was well into its second war against the Gaza terror statelet since Israel’s ill-considered “disengagement” from Gaza in 2005, a move widely hailed at the time as ushering in a new era of peace.

The year leading up to the first Gaza war, 2008, saw over a thousand rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza. In 2009 and 2010, the years after that war, the attacks declined steeply; then they began to rise again and this year, 2012, had reached about 800 before Israel, on Wednesday, finally started to fight back again.

Israel launched the campaign on Wednesday afternoon with two major, successful hits: a lethal aerial strike on Ahmad Jabari, head of Hamas’s military wing and the most senior Hamas figure in the Strip, known especially to Israelis for masterminding the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit; and a series of strikes against Hamas’s Iranian-made long-range Fajr missiles, considered strategic because of their ability to hit the Tel Aviv area in central Israel.

Since then southern Israel has been enveloped in rocket firings from Gaza. On Thursday morning three people were killed in the town of Kiryat Malachi, 18 miles from Gaza, when a rocket made a direct hit on a building there. In my city, Beersheva, 25 miles from Gaza, the attacks have been so frequent that this article is literally being written in intervals between air-raid sirens. So far the city’s Iron Dome battery has intercepted most of the rockets and no serious injuries have been reported.

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Report from the Rocket Zone
 
Hamas Shuts Down Factory Because its Canisters are Painted an “Israeli” Color

August 3, 2013 By Daniel Greenfield

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Clearly unemployment in Gaza isn’t high enough. So Hamas is working hard to make sure that no one works for a living and that will increase its propaganda mojo. (via Elder of Ziyon)

The more factories Hamas closes, the more poverty it’ll be able to point to the world while demanding that Israel open its borders with Gaza.

Hamas authorities in Gaza have closed a gas canister factory, leaving 45 workers unemployed, over allegations they tried to imitate Israeli-made products.

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Hamas Shuts Down Factory Because its Canisters are Painted an ?Israeli? Color | FrontPage Magazine
 
Hamas Shuts Down Factory Because its Canisters are Painted an “Israeli” Color

August 3, 2013 By Daniel Greenfield

israel-flag-face-insert.jpg


Clearly unemployment in Gaza isn’t high enough. So Hamas is working hard to make sure that no one works for a living and that will increase its propaganda mojo. (via Elder of Ziyon)

The more factories Hamas closes, the more poverty it’ll be able to point to the world while demanding that Israel open its borders with Gaza.

Hamas authorities in Gaza have closed a gas canister factory, leaving 45 workers unemployed, over allegations they tried to imitate Israeli-made products.

...

Hamas Shuts Down Factory Because its Canisters are Painted an ?Israeli? Color | FrontPage Magazine

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery".
Charles Caleb Colton (1780–1832)
 

Where did Hamas get its start-up money?

"Another often cited example (of political blowback) is Israeli support of Islamic movements in the 1970s and 1980s intended to weaken the PLO, and leading to the creation of Hamas.[5][6][7]

"With its takeover of Gaza after the 1967 war with Egypt, Israel hunted down secular Palestinian Liberation Organization factions but dropped the previous Egyptian rulers' harsh restrictions against Islamic activists.[8]

"In fact, Israel for many years tolerated and at times encouraged Islamic activists and groups as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the PLO and its dominant faction, Fatah.[8][9]

"Among the activists benefited was Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza, who had also formed the Islamist group Mujama al-Islamiya in 1973, a charity recognized by Israel in 1979.

"Israel allowed the organization to build mosques, clubs, schools, and a library in Gaza.[8][10]"

Blowback (intelligence) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 

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