I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.
Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.
Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [. . . ] For Hamas, the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians.
If Hamas continues to threaten the security of the state of Israel, I believe Israel has the ability and the capacity to control the borders and cut off the weapons supply.
I for one do not negotiate with Hamas and believe it is a mistake to do so.
We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets.
For the Palestinians, efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure. . . Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on a path of terror and rejection. And Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.
[Hamas] lives on their rifles and bombs.
The rise of Hamas is a product of the failures of political will in the international community, of the absence of the peace process, of the increase in violence and ideology.
Hamas is a humanitarian organization.
The problem is, Hamas is using force to try to extort progress on its political objectives.
It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.
if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.
Hamas does not care about the lives of Palestinians. [They don't] care about the lives of Israelis or Americans. They don't care about their own lives. They consider dying for the sake of their ideology a way of worship.
If you look at groups in the Palestine region, Hamas and the Palestine Islamic jihad, more often than not in their first operations they would accidentally blow themselves up on the way to the target or the bomb wouldn't go off.
The Palestinian society is split into two - those who are openly calling for Israel's destruction like Hamas, and those who are not calling openly for Israel's destruction but refuse to confront those who do. They're timid, they're afraid to actually stand up to these killers. They're afraid, maybe for their own sake, for their own political hides, sometimes for their own physical safety. And they don't take that necessary plunge.
Those who elected Hamas in Palestine did so on the basis of its political platform.
The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence
Hamas is responsible and Hamas should held accountable for civilian deaths.
