Hamas

Hamas is an Islamic fundamentalist group fighting for the liberation of Palestine.

 Hamas Spiritual Leader

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Hamas is an acronym of Harakat al Mawqawama al Islamiyya meaning "Islamic Resistance Movement." The word Hamas also means "zeal." The H in Hamas is an Arabic 'Het and it is sounded as a pharyngeal fricative, a sound made deep in the throat like the 'Het in "Shalom 'Haver" made famous by President Bill Clinton. The "a"s in Hamas are pronounced approximately like the "a" in "cat." In Hebrew, the a's are pronounced as "ah."======

=**Hamas bombing, Israeli strikes test peace efforts**=

**Suicide bomber kills 16 in Jerusalem**
Thursday, June 12, 2003 Posted: 0357 GMT (11:57 AM HKT) 
 * JERUSALEM (CNN) --** **The fledgling road map to Middle East peace was put to a bloody test Wednesday, when a Hamas suicide bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem and Israeli forces attacked Hamas militants in Gaza, leaving more than two dozen people dead and 100 others wounded.**

connections to Globalization when we are globalizing as one, trying to similize the world, the Hamas are disagreeing and are urged to create thier own state. And to rise attention to themselfs and to force people with weapons, one of their ways of doing so is by using suicide bombers. __//**Economic**//__ //**__social__ //** raises fear among innocent citizens, which needs the government to calm them by taking some action. **//__Cultural__ Hamas's main goal is to create their own state, however at the moment Israel is in their way of doing so, in terms of religions combining with each other (Israel and the Palestinian Nationalism.
 * // every incidents that the Hamas brings to the country, there will be damage to the public facilities, which causes the government to pay to repair it. a wastes of time and money.

=Goal =

Hamas wants to create an [|Islamic state] in the [|West Bank] and the [|Gaza Strip], a goal which combines [|Palestinian nationalism] with [|Islamism]. [|[49]] Hamas's 1988 charter calls for the replacement of Israel and the Palestinian Territories with an Islamic Palestinian state. However, Hamas did not mention that goal in its electoral manifesto during the January 2006 election campaign,[|[50]] though the manifesto did call for maintaining the armed struggle against the [|Israeli occupation] of the Palestinian Territories.[|[50]] how have this group’s terrorist actions changed as a result of economic/political/social/cultural globalization in the 21st century

**Main events in Hamas' history** The Associated Press//Here are the main events in the history of the Hamas movement:// April 6, **1994**: First Hamas car bombing kills eight in Israeli city of Afula.
 * December 1987**: First Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation erupts, and Yassin founds Hamas as an Islamic resistance movement against Israel.
 * 1988**: Hamas publishes manifesto calling for "holy war" to create an Islamic state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, including Israel, and challenging the Palestine Liberation Organization's claim as the sole representative of the Palestinian people.
 * 1989**: Hamas militants kill Israelis in dozens of shooting attacks; Israel outlaws Hamas as a terrorist organization.
 * 1989:** Israel imprisons Yassin.
 * 1991:** Hamas forms "Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades," its military wing, for attacks against Israelis.
 * April 13, 1994**: First Hamas suicide bombing kills five in Israeli city of Hadera.
 * Oct. 19, 1994**: Hamas suicide bomber blows up Tel Aviv bus, killing 22.
 * February-March 1994**: Hamas suicide bombers blow up two Jerusalem buses, killing 45.
 * Jan. 6, 1996:** Hamas master bombmaker Yehiyeh Ayyash killed in explosion, Israel held responsible.
 * February to March 1996:** 47 Israelis killed in three suicide attacks in retaliation for killing of Ayyash.
 * September 1997:** Yassin released from prison after botched Israeli attempt to kill Hamas leader in Jordan.
 * September 2000**: Second Palestinian uprising begins.
 * June 1, 2001:** Hamas suicide bomber blows up outside Tel Aviv disco, killing 21.
 * Aug. 9, 2001:** Hamas suicide bomber blows up Jerusalem restaurant, killing 15.
 * March 27, 2002:** Hamas bomber blows up Netanya hotel, killing 29.
 * July 23, 2002:** Israel drops one-ton bomb on house of Hamas leader Salah Shehadeh in Gaza, killing him and 14 others.
 * Aug. 21, 2003:** Hamas leader Ismail Shanab killed in Israeli airstrike.
 * August-September 2003:** 39 killed in three Hamas suicide bombings.
 * Sept. 6, 2003**: Yassin slightly wounded in Israeli bombing in Gaza.
 * March 14, 2004**: Two bombers, one from Hamas, kill 10 at Ashdod port.
 * March 22, 2004**: Yassin killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.

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