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Hamas is a Palestinian Islamic Sunni movement which was created during the outbreak of the first Intifada in December 1987 by Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, 'Abdul 'Aziz al-Rantissi, Salah Shehadeh, Muhammad Sham'ah, 'Isa al-Nashshar, 'Abdel Fattah Dukhan and Ibrahim al-Yazuri.
Originally posted by mattpryor
reply to post by Harlequin
Which country is currently protecting the Hamas leader and acts as a base for Hamas Worldwide?
The Council on Foreign Relations estimates Hamas's annual budget at $70 million. The largest backer of Hamas is Saudi Arabia, with over 50% of its funds coming from that country, mainly through Islamic charity organizations. An earlier estimate by GlobalSecurity.org estimated a $50 million annual budget, mostly supplied by private charitable associations but with $12 million supplied directly by Gulf states, primarily Saudi Arabia, and a further $3 million from Iran. The funding by Saudi Arabia continues despite Saudi pledges to stop funding groups such as Hamas that have used violence, and its recent denouncements of Hamas' lack of unity with Fatah.[ According to the US State Department, Hamas is funded by Iran, Palestinian expatriates, and "private benefactors in Saudi Arabia and other Arab states." However, senior British diplomat and former Ambassador to the UN Sir Jeremy Greenstock stated in an interview on the BBC Today Programme that the Hamas is not politically tied to Iran.
Various sources, including United Press International, Gérard Chaliand and L'Humanité have claimed that Hamas' early growth had been supported by the Mossad as a "counterbalance to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)".
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Friday to keep supporting the Palestinian militant group Hamas until the "collapse of Israel." The Iranian news agency Khabar quoted Ahmadinejad as telling Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh that Iran views the support of the Palestinian people as part of its religious and national duty and that Iran will stand behind the Palestinian nation "until the big victory feast which is the collapse of the Zionist regime."
Originally posted by mattpryor
reply to post by Sharrow
What are they lying about exactly
Originally posted by Sharrow
Originally posted by mattpryor
reply to post by Sharrow
What are they lying about exactly
What about they're lying? Usually about everything. Make some background research and you'll learn it too.
Originally posted by bigyin
Israel better listen up ... Iran will be no push over. Bombing unarmed women and children in Gaza is one thing, but taking on somebody your own size is a whole different ballgame. I just hope the Jews in Israel say something before all hell breaks loose.
And while that is going on Hammas will be having an orgasm.
Originally posted by centurion1211
Originally posted by bigyin
Israel better listen up ... Iran will be no push over. Bombing unarmed women and children in Gaza is one thing, but taking on somebody your own size is a whole different ballgame. I just hope the Jews in Israel say something before all hell breaks loose.
And while that is going on Hammas will be having an orgasm.
I wonder what you'll all be saying if iran lives up to all of its rhetoric and attacks Israel first - as the other muslim countries in the area have often done?
Why do I think you'll conveniently choose to ignore that Israeli women and children are now dead and be having your own "orgasms" because you think Israel had it coming?
Hypocrisy alert ...