Is Hamas a Terrorist Organization? A Response on Ra’am’s Position

Because we're at war with Hamas, a criminal terrorist organization.

An outright enemy, no question. What, what, what do you say to that?

Do you consider Hamas a terrorist organization?

Even before we became Ra'am, a political party aspiring to integration and citizenship, we were an Islamic Movement and since the days of Oslo, Sheikh Abdullah Nimar Darwish, the founder of the Islamic Movement, came out unequivocally both in public and political statements, and in religious statements in the Islamic religious context

against attacks, against acts of terror.

That's true, I know him too. Against, against.

And we've continued on this path for thirty, forty years.

No one from the Islamic Movement, and later among Ra'am's members, has been investigated on suspicion of treason or endangering state security, or expressing support for a terrorist organization or an organization hostile to the State of Israel,

and so, on this issue, you can't keep coming and putting us to this test with a test of loyalty to the—