Similar words: bahamas, shaman, amass, pyjamas, pajamas, amalgamate, amalgamation, ham. Meaning: n. a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon; seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel; is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel; pioneered suicide bombing.
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61. The victory of Hamas in the elections has caught this comprador class by surprise.
62. U.S. and Israeli officials say they will have nothing to do with Hamas unless and until the group renounces violence and agrees to recognize Israel.
63. Livni said Israel opposes any dialogue with Hamas and does not consider the group a legitimate organization, but rather a terrorist group.
64. Speaking at the border crossing Saturday, Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official, called it the start of a new era of freedom for the people of Gaza and of closer cooperation with Egypt.
65. Would Hamas and the other Jihadist movements give up their demand for the "dismantling of the Zionist entity"?
66. Tensions between the two factions have been intensified since Hamas outset Fatah from Gaza.
67. Israeli jets hit a guest house used by the Hamas government.
68. It has to be a solution that does not allow the rearmament of Hamas, and it must be a solution that finds a way to open crossings so that Palestinians in Gaza can have normal life.
69. Gaza court run by Hamas then ordered the assets unfrozen and police were dispatched Monday to enforce it, putting them in the odd position of barging into a bank and asking it to hand over the dough.
70. Eric Fosse, a Norwegian doctor there, said Hamas fighters were a small minority of the casualties brought in.
71. But he said Hamas was not ready to recognize Israel.
72. He said they were shooting through walls, throwing grenades around corners[sentencedict.com], going from house to house looking for Hamas gunmen and using bomb sniffer dogs.
73. But the UN strenuously denies that Hamas fighters were in the school.
74. Xinhua News Agency Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) 20, an official said Egypt has decided to re-open access to the Gaza Strip, Egypt, Rafah crossing channels.
75. Payments to Hamas and its connected tunnel - operators boost the economy too.
76. However, an Israeli government spokesman said that while Israel welcomed the proposal, it could accept the plan only if it halted "hostile fire" from Gaza and included measures to stop Hamas rearming.
77. Hamas is defending Israel chuckles an Israeli foreign ministry official.
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78. Fatah says Fayyad is an excellent nominee because he is a moderate who is acceptable to the United States, European Union and Israel, which consider Hamas a terrorist organization.
79. On January 19 th, the last full day of fighting, Hamas fired 19 rockets into Israel.
80. Ever since Hamas began its one-party rule of Gaza, in the summer of 2007, Israel and the West have tried to turn Gazans against Hamas through an economic embargo and diplomatic isolation.
81. But confronting militants could make you unpopular among a Palestinian electorate that voted the Islamic group Hamas into office in 2006.
82. Israeli Shin Bet Security Agency chief Yuval Diskin claimed Hamas had accumulated over 112 tons of explosives, and Tamir signaled Israel is prepared to act as a result.
83. The onslaught is meant to stop Hamas firing rockets at Israel.
84. They also stress that Hamas politicians were elected democratically by Palestinian voters.
85. One Hamas spokesman in Gaza said the group was open to another ceasefire, but wanted Israel's economic blockade lifted.
86. But if you take seriously what Hamas says in its charter, Hamas itself does believe this. So does Hizbullah, Lebanon's "Party of God"; and so does a rising and soon perhaps nuclear-armed Iran.
87. Israeli spokesman Mark Regev says Hamas is a terrorist organization that refuses to renounce violence or recognize Israel.
88. The leader of the Jihadi Soldiers of God organization blew himself up during a gun battle involving hundreds of Hamas fighters.
89. And the suspicion is that Iran has warned Hamas against reconciliation.
90. "There must be guarantees to ensure Israel will not breach this package, including halting the aggression, lifting the blockade and opening the crossings, " said Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas adviser.