Hamas

“Hamas is degraded to defeat. I thought that was a very good article in the foreign affairs on this point. Hezbollah is cornered. Damascus and Syria has been lost, and the Iraqi president seems to be making a pretty good headway, not all the way there, on deali…”

“They were in a just war, you know, and now remember where it started, and remember what Hamas continued to do.”

“The truth is that during the war, the recent war between Israel and Hamas, Hamas committed atrocities and also Israel committed atrocities. This is the truth. It's not that, oh, there is the Palestinian truth that only the Israelis committed atrocities, and th…”

“Even terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas to which Chavez and Maduro have given thousands of Venezuelan's identities and passports to travel around freely around the world.”

“They gave two billion dollars to Hamas over the course of the last several years. And have funded the American university system to tune a 6.3 billion dollars for a country that has a grand total of 2.6 million citizens.”

“And then the other criticism is that they were helping fund Hamas and they have the office there. But the reality is, is that that was always done at the request of the US government and the Israelis were working hand in hand with them in order to work that th…”

“Hamas' military capacity, and therefore its capacity to pose any kind of a military threat to Israel from Gaza, other than random acts of terror, right, has, It has been done at a horrific cost, of course, at a horrific human cost. But Hamas is no longer a thr…”

“We know that the majority of it is being siphoned off by Hamas and used as a weapon of war.”

“If Israel could actually destroy Hamas and achieve its military objective in Gaza, that'd be one thing, but I think we've seen that that's impossible. I mean, Hamas basically bleeds in with the population. It's indistinguishable, and the leadership is hidden d…”

“The way it stands now is, is we're going to keep fighting. We're going to wipe out Hamas and hopefully we can work with others to have a government there. That's not, you know, does not allow terrorism.”

“And, you know, even Hamas, like, I think in like, 20, 22, 23 announced that they were no longer gonna be accepting Bitcoin because it was too traceable.”

“I suspect that both of these two hot wars get resolved quickly because the larger multi-decade implications for the Middle East are too big to let it be subsumed by the Houthi rebels or Hamas.”

“If you look at Israeli domestic politics, it's true that Netanyahu is unpopular, but something like 90% of the Israeli public favors the continuation of this war until Hamas is eliminated.”

“There are many other groups like this that may get emboldened and you start to see more activity in other regions as well, that you can have these kind of outsized impacts and folks suddenly, you know, start to take action.”

“And that was exactly why I believe, whether it's implicit or explicit, Iran inspired Hamas to do this then”

“The reality is, is the best way to improve the lives of the people of Gaza is to eliminate Hamas and put in place a structure where people can finally have the opportunity to live more freely and make better lives for themselves.”

“So the notion of a Palestinian state really didn't emerge till about 1987, 1988 which is the same time that Hamas actually, you know, came about and they came about really from, they were in offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.”

“The goal of Hamas is not to replace Israel with the Palestinian Authority. Their goal is an Islamic Caliphate all over the Middle East to replace Egypt and Saudi Arabia and Jordan and all other Arab countries with the most repressive of Islamic regimes.”

“We have staff in Gaza that are trying to escape Gaza, and we have ways to get them out, but Hamas has blocked all exits. They've bombed roads, they've blocked roads. This is from our Palestinian staff in Gaza that are telling us they're not able to get out bec…”

“When you see Insensitivity of either side towards the humanity of the other. That's literally what Hamas wants.”

“The overwhelming majority of Imams and Muslim leaders condemned Hamas terror as inconsistent with Islamic values, but their voices don't get out.”

“I agree, but I do not know a way that we ultimately help build a Palestinian state in peace with Israel without first dislodging Hamas from control of Gaza.”

“Hamas videoed all of this and posted it in social media. So it was everywhere. It was on Twitter. It was on LinkedIn.”

“And Hamas won't let Palestinians get out of there. They took their IDs, and they took their car keys, and they won't let them flee the area.”

“I think Israel has every right to defend itself, and they should eradicate Hamas.”

“And the first step is getting rid of Hamas, right? Like, there's no choice, but they have to go.”

“If you are a leader who feels compelled to speak out on this, I personally actually believe you have a, Moral responsibility to kind of say more than, you know, my focus is with our people.”

“Where I think the universities, the elite universities have been the worst. Right. Like, you know, their responses have been awful. And there are exceptions, et cetera. I'm thinking specifically of Harvard and Stanford, you know, like truly unacceptable in ter…”

“If I could just jump in, Harry, also, it's important to know that there's well over a hundred Americans, Europeans, and Israelis in Hamas captivity. They were kidnapped from the music festival, and they're still being held hostage by ISIS, Hamas.”

“And they'll do it in London.”

“You can't look the other way from atrocities, and we need to take people at the word. When they say, when Iran says they're coming to destroy Israel, Take them at the word. When Hamas says we're coming to destroy the Jewish people, we need to take them at thei…”