Hamas Quotes · Page 2

Give Hamas 90 days to pick a lane, then react.

— Geraldo Rivera

Hamas does not represent the national aspirations of the Palestinians. It represents extreme Islamic ideas, which they share with Iran, Hezbollah, and…

— Tzipi Livni

The Hamas movement will lead Intifada after Intifada until we liberate Palestine – all of Palestine, Allah willing.

— Ismail Haniyeh

If Hamas wants to be part of the real world, it has to end up accepting Israel's right to exist.

— Jonas Gahr Store

Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance.

— Lois Capps

Israel uses weapons to safeguard civilians. Hamas uses civilians to safeguard weapons.

— Mark Pellegrino

Hamas is a terrorist organisation that built itself over a decade to fight Israel.

— Yoav Gallant

The whole idea of people living side by side in the Middle East was jeopardized by Hamas.

— Yoav Gallant

Hamas is a little more than an enemy of the United States. Hamas, of course, is a terrorist organization - listed by…

— Condoleezza Rice

The rise of Hamas is a product of the failures of political will in the international community, of the absence of the…

— Hanan Ashrawi

Abbas is on his way to becoming a professor of terrorism. After denying the Holocaust in his doctoral thesis, he now claims…

— Danny Danon

Hamas does not care about the lives of Palestinians. [They don't] care about the lives of Israelis or Americans. They don't care…

— Mosab Hassan Yousef

In my own view, Hamas's frustration derives from a lack of legitimization by Israel and by much of the world. It is…

— A. B. Yehoshua

We all know a lot of people who died in 9/11, the World Trade Center. A lot of money funding that mission…

— Barack Obama

The 'day after Hamas' will only be achieved with Palestinian entities taking control of Gaza, accompanied by international actors, establishing a governing…

— Yoav Gallant

We will not allow Hamas to control Gaza. We don't want Israel to control it, either. What is the solution? Local Palestinian…

— Yoav Gallant

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual…

— Dennis Prager

Obama has already demonstrated an extraordinary ability to change the limits of what one can say publicly. His greatest achievement up to…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Palestinians no longer blamed Yasser Arafat or Hamas for their troubles. Now they blamed the Israelis for killing their children. But I…

— Mosab Hassan Yousef

Hamas retains the right to defend Gaza by the use of the weaponry at its disposal, and is thus not committed to…

— Richard A. Falk

“Half the published articles on Gaza contain a standard reference to its resemblance to a vast open-air prison (and when I last…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials being shipped are in such…

— Christopher Hitchens

The priorities for the new Palestinian government is the economy. If Hamas cannot pay salaries when they form the government, there will…

— Hanan Ashrawi

“A truce between Israel and Palestine? Imagine walking into a doctor’s office. You sit down, pick up a magazine, and begin to…

— Ron Brackin

Look at the Israel-Palestine conflict, for example. If you look at a map from 1947 to now, you'll see that Israel has…

— Arundhati Roy

The problem is that Abu Mazen signed an agreement with the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad.

— Ariel Sharon

Those who elected Hamas in Palestine did so on the basis of its political platform.

— Hassan Nasrallah

Hamas, we know, embeds missiles, embeds command-and-control units in civilian areas.

— Hillary Clinton

The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.

— Moshe Katsav

Social media constitute the most powerful readily accessible communications weapon Hamas has in its arsenal.

— Lee Zeldin

[Hamas] thought that if you go to elections you become a democrat for the rest of your life. They think that democracy…

— Shimon Peres

Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

— Aaron Klein

Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.

— Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel.

— Elliott Abrams

Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.

— Ahmed Yassin

The reason for the blockade on Gaza was not to punish the Palestinians but to continue to delegitimize Hamas.

— Tzipi Livni

I saw no evidence during my week in Gaza of Israel’s accusation that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields.

— Jeremy Bowen

“The entire Hamas Charter, from its preamble to the last article, pursues only one purpose: the violent elimination of Israel.”

— Jay Sekulow

Hamas has long been Israel's enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before.

— Richard Engel

We will not rest until we've carried out our mission, and carried it out so that Hamas is defeated.

— Yoav Gallant