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August 5, 2014       Share:    

Source: http://jcpa.org/hamas-threat-no-different-from-isis/

The Hamas Threat to the West Is No Different from the Islamic State

(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi - Hamas' modes of warfare in the current conflict reveal the ideological and operational likeness between Hamas and the Islamic State (IS). From the start, Hamas directed its massive and ongoing missile offensive at civilian targets. Hamas hardly appears different from IS, which decrees a policy of the genocide of infidels without any moral constraints. Hamas in Gaza provides a comfortable haven to all the Palestinian terror organizations and allows al-Qaeda and IS groups to operate freely so long as they do not defy its rule. On the ideological level, there is no difference between how Hamas and IS view the West and the worldwide Islamic revolution. Hamas, too, calls for the founding of the Islamic caliphate with its capital in Jerusalem.

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