Hamas: Why Do They Hate Us?
Charles Johnson
Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 8:15 am PDT • Views: 183
Hamas is shocked—shocked!—that they aren’t universally loved for their aspirations to commit genocide: Hamas ‘shocked’ by global opposition to its power. (Hat tip: Tom.)
GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas, the Islamist group that runs the Palestinian government, said on Thursday it could never have imagined the vast international pressure it would come under after winning democratic elections earlier this year.
In a candid article published in the Palestinian press, Ahmed Youssef, a political adviser to Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas leader, said the group had been shocked by the strength of opposition to its electoral victory.
“It went beyond all imagination,” wrote Youssef.
“The government … did not expect the pressures and the siege imposed on our people would be so harsh, so strong and so large in scale.”
Frank says: