What do you think about Hamas being the ruling party of Palestine?
95846
What's changed?  The only difference now is they're in govermental leadership positions.  It's kind of hard to change your position when you believe that Israel should be pushed into the ocean.  Think on the bright side how much more extreme can Hamas get?
62001
They can if they work to create a organized and functional government for its people and work to create an economy.  Palestinian for the most part is dependent on Israel for work since it does not have much of any industry.\n\nFor Hamas to succeed, it will have to work with Israel to resolve issues that limit the economy of the Palestinians.
441011
That would be great.  However, Hamas is a terrorist group, not likely to honour any peace treaties.  The situation is so sad.  Progress was looking like a possibility, but the election of Hamas has set peace back.  For how long?  And leading to how much death?
1070705
Yes.  The US has vital interests in the Middle East and Hamas is sworn to destroy them.
104492
The country does not belong to the Palestinians.\nIt belongs to the Israelis.
259411
I think the governments of the West have made it very clear what the barrier is.  Hamas was renounce terrorism and its call for the destruction of Israel.  I think you call it a "Jew lobby" in our senate, but it's not because it's a Jewish state or Israel, it's because Hamas is calling for the destruction of another country.  That does not ever sit well with the United States.  If Hamas will renounce its former violence and become a legitimate POLITICAL party that will seek change through PEACEFUL and POLITICAL methods, then it will be recognized by the West as a legitimate government.  It will finally get the recognition by the world that it has craved.   Surely the leaders of Hamas are intelligent enough to see that.  Your prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, taught peace, not violence.  I see the election of Hamas in Palestine to be a golden opportunity for the leadership of Hamas.  I hope they do not do anything foolish that would ruin their chances of establishing a legitimate government.
97563
I believe the state of Israel has a bright future.  All they have to do is great rid of the Palestinians (aka Terrorist)\n\nAnd im also a proud Zionist!!!!
180551
They are terrorists:\n\n The group is listed as a terrorist organization by Australia, Canada, the European Union, Israel, and the United States.\nHamas is a Palestinian Islamist organization created in 1987.\n It is best known throughout the world for carrying out suicide bombings and other attacks primarily against Israeli civilians, as well as military targets, to further its goal of creating a Palestinian state in the area that is now Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. \nHamas has created an extensive network of social welfare programs throughout the West Bank and Gaza, explaining part of its popularity.
134703
I wont answer ur question bcs\n\ni would give exemple here :\n\nif one make an Cake ... and onther one came and attack him and took it from him bcs he have more power ...and after days for some REASONS the 2 says ..ok let set and talk ...and the real owner of the cake said ,even all the cake its for me ...but i let u have it but i would have piece from my cake ... and u can keep the rest of it ... but the onther one said OK i will give u piece of ur cake ...but u must do thats and thats and thats!!! \n\nSo thats what is happning here today the Palestinians even b4 1948 they were have all the land and the Israelian occupied it....and now palestinians wanted just littel part of their own land and not all of it ...\n\nAnd now u asking ...do they deserve to be independent and have thier own state!!!!\n\ni will let you and whom reading this question to answer it
683073
Kinda hypocritical, isn't it? I mean look at palastine right now. we push and push for a democratic election...we get one, a clean one...and HAMAS is elected!! HA! So NOW what do we do???? Stand for democracy?? \n\nIt is a tangled, complex world out there...and it is hard to stand up and say ALWAYS and NEVER.
159185
Yes, it is becasue it is an Arab country. The US right now is going through an identity crisis.\n\nWe make it our business to spread democracy and freedom around the world, yet when a party is democratically elected, and we don't like them, we want to break diplomatic relations. (Hamas)\n\nWe belive in free trade/market, and have allowed businesses from other countries maintain our ports, yet now that there is an Arab country involved, it is a problem.\n\nThe United States does not know what position it is to hold in the world.
1121454
Israel has never blinked in their history!  They have to show that they have no weakness or they will be at the mercy of all the Arab countries around them.  Hamas will have to blink or the Gaza will not be available to them anymore.  Israel will just go in and restore their authority!
121551
I am surprised that the U.S. was giving any aid to the Palistine Authority as we do not support terrorism and Yassir Afrifat was considered one of the foremost terrorist leaders in the world 40 years ago.  The Palistine Autority has agreed to return the Money.  You say shame on the U.S. for asking for this money back, yet Hamas wants Israel driven into the sea, which is against the policy of the U.S. foreign policy.  Hamas has said they do not want to change their belief's that Israel should not exist and the U.S. asked for the return of our money.  Fundimentalist Muslims want the destruction of the U.S. because we support Israels right to exist.  Does it make sense to you that we should support those who are against our policy?  Foreign Aid is for those countries that support our policies in principal.  The Palistine Authority understands this and has agreed to return the money.  Everybody says it is Allah's will that the U.S. must be destroyed, however in the meantime they all want to spend our money.  Do you see a conflict here?
702431
The UN said it was theirs.  If the Palestinians had chosen peace in 1948, they would have a country too.  But they chose to fight, got whipped, and lost whatever rights they had to Israel by right of conquest by a defender.  Suck it up and go live in Jordan.  Or Lebanon.  Or Syria.  Or Egypt.  \n\nIf they will have you.  Otherwise, tough ****
119056
I seriously don't think anything is going to change,  Israel a few years ago sent in helicopters and shot missiles at some Palestinian terrorists to prove a point, and since then the violence hasn't been as great, \nplus all these wack job islamo extremists are fighting in Iraq,\n\nthe real reason they won is because the people were rejecting the corrupt party that was in power before,\n\nWill Hamas change its charter about killing Israel?  I don't think they will,  but I don't think they will take any different steps then they have in the past,\n\nso nothing will change.\n\nNothing ever changes.
407701
Sheesh......talk about a difficult question!  First of all what do you mean by Palestine?  The Palestinian homeland is Jordan.  You haver to consider what each side wants and what each side fears.  We'll start with Israel.  What Israel wants is a safe and secure Israel, with an internal Jewish majority.  They don't want to have to rely on foreign powers for security...or even aid.  The Israeli policy towards Jerusalem and the occupied territories are all under intense debate as ways to achieve this end.  The real problem that Israel faces is their internal Muslim population outnumbering its jewish population due to higher birth rates.  Their biggest fear is surrendering land for peace....the Government they made a deal with being overthrown...and having attacks launched against them through invasion routes they gave back by new fanatic governments.  You have to remember that Israel came very close to destruction on several occasions....and that the stated goal of Hamas has always been to push jews into the sea.  The Palestineans want a homeland/country.  They are laregely secular/capitalist as a group...and better educated then any other region in the muslim mid-east.  Because of this they are seen as a threat by other nations in the Arab world.  This is why so many Arab nations pay lip service to the Palestinean cause....but do little for them.  In polls most Palestineans supported the peace proccess that Arafat began and then stopped with the Initifadah.  The recent election of Hamas had less to do with Israeli policy then it did with corruption in their security apparatus.  Palestineans fear losing their claim to any part of Jerusalem...which is what they might face with current Israeli policy of a unilateral withdrawl.  The solution has to be something that gives the Palistieans a homeland....while giving Israel secure borders and national security.  I don't know what the answer is....but I kow the current system of anti-semitism that is blared in Arab media sources doesn't help matters.  I also think that if the other Arabic nations budded out (and they have their own agenda which has NOTHING to do with the well being of Palestineans) a solution could be reached.  I think a secure and stable western styled government in a Palestinean homeland would be the only outcome that all sides could be happy with.  The problem is the rest of the Arab world wouldn;t be happy with it.
517125
Of course they should, but they never will. Hamas is a terrorist organization whose soul purpose is to destroy isreal and resetablish the palastinian state. They also stand no benefit from recognizing isreal. Sure they will aid for the palastinian people from the american governemnt but they will lose all of the funding given to them from Iran and Saudi Arabia.