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January 6, 2009 | 3:01 pm

‘Fun Facts About Hamas’

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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How much do you know about Hamas?

Palestinian Media Watch can educate you on how Hamas defines itself. The Council on Foreign Relations has a decent backgrounder. And here is the Hamas Charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel.

But if you’re looking for a primer with a bit more levity, check out this satirical piece Omri at Mere Rhetoric sent me:

FUN FACTS ABOUT HAMAS

* Hamas was founded in 1987 according to some site I found with Google. I was eight years old then and wanted to be a fireman or an astronaut. Blowing up Jews had not crossed my mind.

* Hamas is Arabic for “dumb @#$% with explosives”.

* Contrary to popular belief, Hamas has nothing to do with ham. Actually, if you throw hams at them, they’ll get angry.

* Make sure to keep Hamas away from your Jews.

* I don’t like to loosely throw around charges of anti-Semitism, but I don’t think Hamas members like Jews.

* Hamas protects their armaments by hiding them among children so Israel will hesitate to shoot back. For a ground war, Hamas is planning on wearing vests covered in live puppies. Killing terrorists isn’t worth harming an innocent puppy, is it?

Read the rest from IMAO here.

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Brad, I think Israel has had it wrong all these years. Instead of trying to block the importation of weapons into Gaza, they should stop the importation of ski masks.

Comment by robert on 1/06/09 at 10:17 pm

That must be a file picture. Everyone knows you don’t wear white gloves in winter.

Comment by robert on 1/06/09 at 11:18 pm

You can’t make cocaine without coca.

Comment by Brad A. Greenberg on 1/06/09 at 11:29 pm

The point is well made. A few short years ago before and after Hamas won the election, everybody including France(!) was aghast at Hamas becoming a political player. Now they are getting the Fatah treatment of treating them as a principled grassroots opponent of Zionism rather than an incarnation of evil.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 1/07/09 at 2:37 am

Actually “hamas” in Hebrew means “extorted.” Anybody who has sat through a Yom Kippur service will remember “hamasnu” (“we have extorted”) as a part of the acrostic confession in which we beat our breast at the word.  Quite an appropriate name for a terrorist group that uses human shields, I would say.  (In reality, Hamas is an acronym for something in Arabic.  Its just a coincidence that it also happens to mean “extorted” in Hebrew.)

Comment by Guy Handelman on 1/08/09 at 4:30 am

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