| mhsillen said: I believe it would be a good time for Imam Rauf to distance himself from Hamas He could do that as a token peace offering |
I am not a radical person in anything, yet I am not 100% in calling Hamas a terrorist group. The Israeli/Palestinian situation is completely different than really any other conflict in that both sides perform or have performed 'terrorist' actions on the other for the last 100 years.
Hell, the PLO was once hijacking planes, etc and now they are the only government of Palestinians anyone including Israel will talk to.
While I don't agree with many of Hamas' actions and think they are 100% against Islamic teachings, they are a militant freedom fighter against an far more superior military. They use the only arms they can obtain. No different than what we did in our war for freedom from England over 200 years ago. Read about our own history. Tar and feathering English people is not very nice. Of course the bigger difference here is that we were capable of getting parity with our enemies on the battlefield while Hamas and other Palestinians have no way of ever being equals.
Finally, Hamas' position on anything shouldn't be something we hold any value to if you consider them a terrorist organization.
