who is the leader of the Hamas?
456788
Abdel Aziz Rantisi\n\nUltimately, Hamas is a satellite of Iran.
731535
Hanyah hasn't resigned yet,and as it seems that the talks for a unity government are going very well,I don't think he will resign...\nSo I guess in a few years we will know who is the next Palestinian prime minister...
65523
Nothing much.  Looks like Israel has already made a relatively smooth transition to the next guy.\n\nWhat's far worse is having Hamas in charge of the Palestinian Authority.  I can understand what those people were thinking but honestly, what the heck were they thinking?
1121530
The president is Mahmoud Admadinejad\n\nThe  supreme leader is Hojjat-ol-Eslam Seyed Mohammed Khatami
544471
Short answer: He is the president of the Palestinian Authority.\n\nFor more about him:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Abbas.html\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1933453.stm
74449
Rejecting Hamas is not the same as rejecting Democracy.\nFor years the Hamas has indiscriminately killed thousands of innocent people with no valid justification for their actions.  Hamas won the election - Fine.  Now (as before under the PLO) a terrorist organization is the duly elected representative of the Palestinians.  The Palestinian people have made their choice and it is called TERRORISM.  They should be ostracized, reviled, and punished accordingly.
458673
A man of gross intolerance, filled with hatred and bigotry towards all things not Islamic.  He is new in office and his rhetoric is quite ugly (telling everyone Israel will be eliminated).  If he ever makes an effort to match his rhetoric to actions I suspect he'll be eliminated quickly.
531583
Is it not a shame that people like you cannot identify terrorists? The reason the US and Eu refuse to recognise Hamas is that they are TERRORISTS and operate outside the realm of international law and accepted behaviour. Teh rational world rejects them- the irrational world seems to think that blowing up babies in prams is somehow legitimate when you are a Palestinian and trying to kill as many Jews as possible!\n\nHey- Hamas and the Nazis share a common aim- both want to live in a Judenrein (Jew free) area- the Hamas charter calls for the killing of every Jew in the area!
680103
It is still supporting Hamas.  The goal is to not have peace with the Palestinians and to steal thier land, having a reactionary government that Israel can falt out reject and ignore diplomatically is exactly why Israel supported Hamas in the first place.  It is ideal if the goal is to ignore efforts such as the Road Map, because of course, they "don't recognize Israel".  The fact is that Hamas could be brought to the table and would recognize Israel, but a long pattern of negotiations where Palestinaisn offered all and Israel offered ntohing reasonable by far (camp david) has made the Hamas line hard.  Palestinaians elected Hamas because they are tired of leadership that acts in accord with Israels rejection of peace and in doing so capitulates to the oppressor.  But Israel is in control (because the US allows it) and can only be brought to justice if the American people put pressure on them to do so, it is in our hands, make a call, write a letter, it is the least we can do.
689599
Yes, it appears to me that several events are starting to line up quickly. Hamas and the cut off of their funds is a ticking time bomb. The Iranian president is trying to provoke a conflict with the west in a attempt to usher in the Muslim messiah. If the U.S. or Israel attacks Iran their will be a response that could be the one foretold in Ez ch 38. That in turn could be the conflict that results in a peace treaty with Israel which is the start of the tribulation.
1070705
Yes.  The US has vital interests in the Middle East and Hamas is sworn to destroy them.
1121454
Israel has never blinked in their history!  They have to show that they have no weakness or they will be at the mercy of all the Arab countries around them.  Hamas will have to blink or the Gaza will not be available to them anymore.  Israel will just go in and restore their authority!
220146
The future will be more of the same abuse the Arabs of Judea/Samaria and Gaza experienced under Fatah.\n\nThe Hamas is a terror gang part of the Muslim Brotherhood. \n\nHamas has set the destruction of Israel as its goal. Between September 2000 and April 2004, Hamas perpetrated 425 terrorist attacks against Israel and murdered 377 Israelis.  \n\nHamas was founded by Islamic militant extremists in the Gaza Strip in 1988, shortly after the first intifada broke out. The word Hamas is an acronym for the Arabic words for "Islamic Resistance Movement." \n\nThough it is also involved in social and welfare programs, the organization is devoted chiefly to the obliteration of Israel. Its charter states, "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." \n\nThe charter further states, "There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.\n\nHamas is responsible for 24 murders before the Oslo Accords, 156 more before the Oslo War began in September 2000, and at least another 377 since then - a total of at least 557.\n\nThe organization's first mass attack was a car bomb that blew up at a bus stop in Afula in April 1994, murdering 8 and wounding 51. Among the most horrific Hamas attacks were the following:\n\n* 22 people killed and 56 wounded in a suicide bombing attack on the No. 5 bus on \nDizengoff St. in Tel Aviv, Oct. 1994\n\n* 26 killed by suicide bomber on a #18 bus near the Jerusalem Central Bus Station, Feb. 1996\n\n* 16 killed in the Mahane Yehuda open market in Jerusalem in a double suicide attack, July 1997\n\n* 23 dead and 115 wounded when a Hamas suicide bomber blew himself up on a No. 2 bus line coming from the Western Wall in Jerusalem, August 2003\n\n* 45 murdered within the space of five days in March 2002: a suicide Hamas terrorist blew himself up in a Haifa restaurant, killing 15, and another one did the same in the Park Hotel in in Netanya during a Passover Seder, murdering some 30 and wounding 144.\n\nThe ten worst Oslo War Hamas attacks, in which a total of 186 were murdered, also included the following: \n* June 1, 2001 - Dolphinarium in Tel Aviv, 21 killed - mostly new-immigrant teenagers from the former Soviet Union\n\n* Aug. 9, 2001 - Sbarro's Pizzeria in Jerusalem, 15 killed, including the parents and three children of the Schijveschuurder family\n\n* Dec. 2, 2001 - Haifa bus, 15 killed\n\n* May 7, 2002 - Rishon Letzion hall, 16 killed\n\n* June 18, 2002 - #32 bus from Gilo, Jerusalem, 19 killed\n\n* March 5, 2003 - #37 bus in Haifa, 15 dead\n\n* June 11, 2003 - #14 bus, Jerusalem, 17 murdered\n \n...And it goes on
1025789
Hammas IS the Palestinian government. Anyway, no. They VOTED for Hammas and its destroy Israel policy. Anyone got any thoughts on how you make peace with someone who wants you dead? Neither do I, except of course, you defeat them.
304146
Because Hamas wants to destroy Israel.  America wants to support democracy because democracies usually don't support terrorism.  The Palestinians proved to be the exception here.  Just because Hamas wants to destroy Israel does not mean that the United States has to give Hamas money to do so.
530509
Well Hamas won. The people have spoken. Now Hamas has a choice, keep their present stand on destroying Israel (a country formed and recognized by UN charter which is more than I can say for that area called Palistine.)and being broke. Or they can denounce terrorism and recognise Israel as a country and join most of the rest of the world with all the benefits and perks of being on someones dole.
466303
NO \nIran backs Hamas--so Yes to the terrorist attacks.