Hamas

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

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

“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.”

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

“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…”