EMM News Explorer: Hamas

Mark Regev [ said]: For anyone who had any illusions as to the extremist nature of Hamas, I would hope this would serve as a wake-up call,

IHT 11-FEB-12

Binyamin Netanyahu [said:]: For anyone who had any illusions as to the extremist nature of Hamas, I would hope this would serve as a wake-up call. The leadership of Iran and the leadership of Hamas share the same extremist goals. In many ways, Hamas is Iran's proxy.

javno 11-FEB-12

Lieberman [-said]: Israel will not accept a Palestinian government that includes Hamas, unless it changes its current policies, recognizes Israel’s right to exist and accepts all Quartet conditions,

tribune 10-FEB-12

Lieberman [-added]: Israel will not accept a Palestinian government that includes Hamas, unless it changes its current policies, recognizes Israel's right to exist and accepts all Quartet conditions,

dailystar 10-FEB-12

Radwan [-said]: This is not about choosing Abbas [as prime minister] or forming a unity government as much as it is about ending the state of division [between Hamas and Fatah],

jpost 09-FEB-12

Lieberman [-added]: Israel will not accept a Palestinian government that includes Hamas, unless it changes its current policies, recognizes Israel?s right to exist and accepts all Quartet conditions,

france24 09-FEB-12

Nuland [-said]: Our red lines about Hamas are the same red lines that the Israelis have: recognizing Israel, renouncing violence and agreeing to all of those past Palestinian agreements,

nowlebanon 08-FEB-12

Meshaal [-said]: We are serious, both Fateh and Hamas, in healing the wounds and ending the chapter of division and reinforcing and accomplishing reconciliation,

jmcc 08-FEB-12

Nuland [-said]: Our red lines about Hamas are the same red lines that the Israelis have -- recognizing Israel, renouncing violence, and agreeing to all of the past Palestinian agreements. So that hasn't changed on either side,

xinhuanet_en 07-FEB-12

Netanyahu [said:]: It is either peace with Hamas or peace with Israel. You can’t have them both.

euronews 06-FEB-12

Netanyahu [-insisted]: Hamas is a terrorist organization that seeks to destroy Israel and is supported by Iran,

maannews 06-FEB-12

Netanyahu [-said]: It is either peace with Hamas or peace with Israel. You can't have them both,

news 06-FEB-12

Netanyahu [-added that]: Hamas is a terrorist organization committed to Israel's destruction that gets its orders from Iran. I believe have said that [PA President Mahmoud] Abbas has a choice between peace and Hamas. Hamas and peace don't go together.

jpost 06-FEB-12

Netanyahu [-said]: Hamas is a terror organization that strives for the elimination of Israel, and leaning on Iranian support,

xinhuanet_en 06-FEB-12

Netanyahu [-said]: It's either peace with Hamas or peace with Israel,

xinhuanet_en 06-FEB-12

Netanyahu [-said]: Hamas is a terrorist organization that wants to destroy Israel, and is supported by Iran ,

rt 06-FEB-12

Netanyahu [said:]: It is either peace with Hamas or peace with Israel. You can't have them both.

AP 06-FEB-12

Palmor [-said]: If Turkey's approach would have the effect of moderating Hamas, then we could understand the strategy,

AP 02-FEB-12

Peres [-described]: Today Hamas is promised donations of close to a billion dollars a year without being required to stop terrorism or to prevent the Gaza Strip from becoming a forward base for the terrorism of Tehran ... There's not a lot of time left.

jpost 31-JAN-12

Meshaal [-said]: The Hamas movement categorically rejects all alternative homeland projects in Jordan and we insist on restoring all our rights fully so that Palestine is Palestine and Jordan is Jordan,

aljazeera 31-JAN-12

Gul [-said]: Hamas is a political body that has entered into elections in the Palestinian region of Gaza and came to power through the votes of the people,

turkishpress 30-JAN-12

Gul [-said]: Turkey is one of the strongest supporters of the Palestinian case. And Hamas is an important political formation which has participated and succeeded in elections,

turkishpress 30-JAN-12

Gül [-said]: Turkey is one of the strongest supporters of the Palestinian case. And Hamas is an important political formation which participated and succeeded in elections,

hurriyetdailynews 30-JAN-12

Fawzi Barhoum [-told]: Hamas has not taken any decision to leave Syria, and we are still there,

jrep 30-JAN-12

Romney [-said]: The reason that there’s not peace between the Palestinians and Israel is because there is – in the leadership of the Palestinian people are Hamas and others who think like Hamas, who have as their intent the elimination of Israel,

jrep 29-JAN-12

Mashaal [-said]: Any discussions between Hamas and Jordan opens a new page between all sides in the Palestinian issue,

jpost 29-JAN-12

Meshaal [ said]: Any future meetings between Hamas and Jordan open a new page between the two sides and serve the Palestinian cause,

cnn 29-JAN-12

Gul [-said]: Hamas is a political body that entered into elections in the Palestinian region of Gaza and came to power through the votes of the people,

trendnews 29-JAN-12

Romney [-said]: The reason that there's not peace between the Palestinians and Israel is because there is, in the leadership of the Palestinian people... Hamas and others who think like Hamas, who have as their intent the elimination of Israel,

iafrica 27-JAN-12

Radwan [-said]: Hamas is keen on making the reconciliation process succeed and ending the division in the Palestinian arena,

jrep 24-JAN-12

Rosenfeld [-said]: Two Hamas activists were arrested at the Red Cross building. They were hiding in the building for a year and a half after their ID cards had been revoked on suspicions of being active in terrorist activity,

news 23-JAN-12

Uzi Landau [said:]: this is not coming from Hamas, which we are used to. This is coming from Palestinian Authority television. If that is not anti-Semitism, then I don't know what is.

javno 22-JAN-12

Ahmed Yousef [ said]: With this step, Mashaal wanted to emphasize that Hamas is a democratic movement, but the final decision will be made by the Shura Council,

IHT 21-JAN-12

Ahmed Yousef [ said]: With this step, Meshaal wanted to emphasize that Hamas is a democratic movement, but the final decision will be made by the Shura Council,

ibtimes 21-JAN-12

Sarah Leah Whitson [ said]: Hamas and the Palestinian Authority should not sit idly by while human rights defenders are being stabbed and beaten in the streets, in some cases by these groups' own officials,

trust 19-JAN-12

HumanRightsWatch 18-JAN-12

Haniyeh [-said]: The Islamic resistance group of Hamas is the Jihad arm of the Brotherhood, it is the Palestinian face,

news 18-JAN-12

Abu Zuhri [-said]: Hamas praises the Arab hackers and calls on the Arab youth to play their role in cyberspace in the face of Israeli crimes,

dailystar 16-JAN-12

Miller [-said that]: I think both Hamas and Abbas have a problem in this regard, which means they'll try to keep as many balls going as they possibly can to divert attention and to create the illusion that something is happening.

ibtimes 06-JAN-12

Miller [-said]: The whole Hamas diplomatic enterprise is limited,

ibtimes 06-JAN-12

Meshaal [-said]: Since the start of the crisis, we in Hamas and myself personally, have made a huge effort to solve the crisis through a political solution, and we have kept up these efforts,

trust 06-JAN-12

Meshaal [-said]: Hamas is committed to achieving reconciliation to end the Palestinian division, form a government, hold elections and release all detainees,

france24 06-JAN-12

Mashaal [-told]: What media outlets are disseminating about Hamas leaving Damascus isn't true,

maannews 31-DEC-11

Netanyahu [-said]: If Hamas joins the Palestinian government we will not hold negotiations with the Palestinian Authority

reliefWeb 31-DEC-11

Paul [-has said]: One of the people running for president thinks it's OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. I don't. I don't trust the ayatollahs. I don't trust [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad. I don't trust those who backed Hamas and Hezbollah. I'm concerned that fissile material ultimately will find its way into the hands of terrorists and ultimately create mayhem in the world.

npr 29-DEC-11

Sami Abu Zuhri [ said]: Hamas is committed to making the reconciliation agreement work and implementing it as a demonstration of the unity of the Palestinian people in the face of occupation,

france24 27-DEC-11

Netanyahu [-said]: If Hamas joins the Palestinian government, we will not hold negotiations with the Palestinian (National) Authority,

chinadaily 26-DEC-11

Netanyahu [ said]: If Hamas joins the Palestinian government we will not hold negotiations with the Palestinian Authority,

haaretz 25-DEC-11

Regev [-told]: Hamas is not a political movement that resorts to terrorism but a group whose whole vocation is terrorism,

nowlebanon 23-DEC-11

Mark Regev [ said]: Hamas is not a political organization that conducts terrorism. Hamas is a murderous, genocidal terrorist organization to the core,

reuters 22-DEC-11

Regev [-said that]: embraces Hamas, if he walks toward Hamas, he is walking away from peace.

jrep 22-DEC-11

Mark Regev [-said]: Hamas is openly against peace. Terrorism is not just a tactic it is their very being. The unfortunate reality is that if Abbas moves towards Hamas, he moves away from peace,

guardian 22-DEC-11

Barghouthi [-said]: a historic day in the lives of the Palestinian people with the development of a united national leadership as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the PNI joined the PLO’s leadership framework.

maannews 22-DEC-11

Regev [-said]: No one in the international community should have illusions as to Hamas,

AP 22-DEC-11

Mark Regev [ said]: Hamas is not a political organization that conducts terrorism. Hamas is a murderous, genocidal terrorist organisation to the core,

irishtimes 22-DEC-11

Osama Hamdan [said:]: We have a clear position: the Syrian government supports the Palestinian-organised resistance, it supports Hamas and it supports the Palestinian cause. But at the same time, we believe the Syrian people deserve to achieve their goals without our interference in domestic issues.

guardian 21-DEC-11

Abbas [-said that]: We laid down the basis for an eventual agreement. Firstly, Hamas has come around on the following points: peace and calm must be established in Gaza as in the West Bank; resistance must be population-based and not with weapons — frankly, this was a point we agreed on; the solution is a state based on the 1967 borders — there again Hamas agreed.

jrep 17-DEC-11

Netanyahu [-told]: We will maintain law and order everywhere. IDF soldiers are the ones who fight Hamas and Hezbollah. We will not allow anyone to raise a hand against IDF soldiers. Those who dare to do so will pay a heavy price. I assure you of this,

yediotaharonot 15-DEC-11

Haneya [ said]: Hamas was born with the beginning of the first intifada, lived with the second intifada, and will lead together with the Palestinian people and their Islamic and national factions all the coming intifadas until the liberation of Palestine, all Palestine,

xinhuanet_en 14-DEC-11

Haniyeh [-told]: They say Hamas was dropped from the line of resistance, but armed resistance is the way and it is Hamas's strategic choice to liberate Palestine from the (Jordan) river to the (Mediterranean) sea and to remove the invaders from the blessed land of Palestine,

albawaba 14-DEC-11

Haniyeh [-said]: Hamas, together with other stubborn resistance factions, will lead the people towards uprising after uprising until all of Palestine is liberated,

news 14-DEC-11

Gingrich [-told]: When the president keeps talking about a peace process while Hamas keeps firing missiles into Israel, if we had a country next to us firing missiles, how eager would we be to sit down and negotiate?

AP 11-DEC-11

Barhoum [-said]: They don't represent the ideology and policy of the Hamas movement,

kyivpost 11-DEC-11

al-Zahar [ said]: These reports are untrue Israeli media reports. Hamas movement and its leaders are practicing their job without interfering with Syria's affairs,

xinhuanet_en 10-DEC-11

Romney [-also accused]: emboldened Palestinian hard-liners who now are poised to form a unity government with terrorist Hamas and feel they can bypass Israel at the bargaining table.

CBC 09-DEC-11

Rivlin [-also said]: There have been attempts to include Hamas members in official PA delegations, but I have stopped them.

jrep 05-DEC-11

Barhoum [ said]: When the Arab nations voted for the Islamists, mainly in Egypt, this means that the American and Israeli attempts to uproot Hamas movement over the past five years and the destruction of the Gaza Strip as well as isolating Hamas from the world's map had completely failed,

xinhuanet_en 04-DEC-11

Fawzi Barhoum [ said]: The Hamas movement feels revived today,

maannews 03-DEC-11

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