Hamas wants to attack United States interests in Middle East

Hamas not only refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist, they now want to attack interests of the United States in the Middle East. They seem to be upset with President George W. Bush and the United States support of Israel. It seems the 'radicals' within Hamas are outnumbering the (dare I say it) moderates. Israeli intelligence believes that if Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas moves to dismiss the Hamas government in the next few weeks, the radical element in Hamas will go forward with attacks on US interests.

The U.S. consulate in Jerusalem has warned that Americans traveling in the Palestinian territories are no longer safe from kidnapping like Steve Centanni and Olaf Wigg, Fox News employees; and American aid worker, Michael Philips, 24, from Louisiana was kidnapped from Nablus. It seems the Palestinian people are blaming the United States for their problems when in reality they should be blaming themselves for voting for Hamas.

Commanders of the military wing of Hamas, the Islamist movement elected to power in the Palestinian territories earlier this year, are locked in a fierce debate over whether to launch terrorist attacks on U.S. targets in the Middle East. Despite its anti-American rhetoric, Hamas has until now refrained from any known terror strikes against the U.S.

. . . In furtive, underground meetings held in the West Bank and Gaza, a growing number of Hamas commanders say they are running out of patience with the U.S. and want to strike back. Insiders say the radicals are trying to exploit the exasperation within the movement at what they perceive as the Bush Administration's one-sided support of Israel and its attempts to press Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to dissolve the Hamas cabinet. source

Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said today, "I tell you with all honesty, we will not recognize Israel, we will not recognize Israel, we will not recognize Israel, ... We say we will be in every government, we will stay in the government." Even Iran's President Mahmoud Amadinejad said we should let the people vote who they want to lead them and let that be the end of it.

The Hamas leader ruled out a proposal by members of his own Hamas movement to form a new government of technocrats as a way of winning international support and ending a seven-month aid freeze.

"There are new scenarios, such as an emergency government, a technocrat government, or early elections," Haniyeh told the crowd in a packed soccer stadium. "They all aim at one thing, getting Hamas out of the government." [snip]

Haniyeh said his best offer to Israel was a temporary truce in return for establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with its capital in Jerusalem, over which Israel claims complete sovereignty. He also repeated demands for the release of thousands of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons source

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