Quotes about Hamas Leadership

Mosab Hassan Yousef

The problem is not Hamas, the problem is not people. The root of the problem is Islam itself as an idea, as an idea. And about Hamas as an organization, of course, the Hamas leadership, including my father, they're responsible; they're responsible for all the violence that happened from the organization.

Ban Ki-moon

These [Hamas] leaders are making their people killed by others…. They should take care of the lives of their own people.

The Hamas leadership of the Gaza strip had fired thousands of rockets into Israel which their charter states should be eliminated. The Israelis after many being hit by more than a thousand rockets, used their military to attack (via the air) the Hamas leadership. However, Hamas had stored their rockets and their armaments in or very near civilian facilities including hospitals, schools, mosques and even UN humanitarian facilities. The Hamas leaders thereby made civilian facilities legitimate military targets under the Rules of War of the Geneva and Hague Conventions. So the Gaza leadership, instead of their military protecting their own civilians, used the civilians to protect the military and their weapons in the midst of war. The Secretary General also was referring to the Hamas leadership who had rejected at that point 5 different cease fires that had been proposed by the Egyptians, Americans, The Arab League and others. Israeli accepted them all.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay.

Geraldo Rivera

Give Hamas 90 days to pick a lane, then react.

Khaled Mashal

Hamas' leadership needs new blood. I will continue to serve my people. But the presidency of the Palestinian Autonomous Authority is not a free, sovereign position - it is an office that is confined by the occupation. That's why this position is not interesting for Hamas.

Jimmy Carter

The heart and mind of every Muslim is affected by whether or not the Israel-Palestine issue is dealt with fairly.

Condoleezza Rice

Hamas is a little more than an enemy of the United States. Hamas, of course, is a terrorist organization - listed by Europeans as a terrorist organization.

Michael Herzog

Mahmoud al-Zahar, the group’s leading figure, gave a series of interviews in the run-up to the parliamentary elections in which he explained that the group sees no connection between the elections and the Oslo process--- which is dead anyway--- and that any cease-fire along the 1967 borders would not come with a recognition of Israel or relations with it, but would be merely a step in the continued struggle.

Al-Zahar was a leader of Hamas, a terrorist organization that also began to participate in Palestinian politics and in 2006 became the elected government. Unlike other Palestinian parties, Hamas, refused to honor the previous government’s commitment to the Oslo accords and rejected the right of Israel to exist. Therefore, once Hamas won the election, there was no force for Israel to negotiate with and the peace process stopped as Hamas rejected the notion of peace.

Hamas Leadership Quotes