{UAH} Is Hamas a terrorist organization?

Until today, there is no agreed upon definition for terrorism that groups and actions can be measured upon. Thus, the label "terrorist" can easily be abused for political gains and interests.

The famous quotes: "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" can apply here perfectly. Although 62 percent of Palestinians held a favorable view of Hamas in 2007, as the Pew Global Attitude Survey found, and that Hamas was democratically elected for parliament in 2006, it has been listed by Canada, Israel, Japan, and the US as a "terrorist" organization.

In an interview with the Der Spiegel, Khaled Meshaal, Hamas' political leader, affirmed, "we are a national resistance movement, not a terrorist organization. We have the right to resist the occupation."

Mahmoud al-Zahar, a prominent Hamas leader, wrote in the Washington Post in 2008, "our movement fights on because we cannot allow the foundational crime at the core of the Jewish state — the violent expulsion from our lands and villages that made us refugees — to slip out of world consciousness, forgotten or negotiated away."

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"War is nothing but a  continuation of political intercourse, with a mixture of other means. Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." 

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