Dore Gold correctly noted that “Hamas” is an acronym for the “Islamic Resistance Movement” (“Notable & Quotable: Hamas,” March 4). It’s also worth adding that in Arabic, the word ...

Hamas is an Islamist militant movement that has controlled the Gaza Strip for nearly two decades. It violently rejects the existence of Israel, which it claims is occupying Palestine. In October ...

By the 1990s, Hamas, Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, had become the spearhead of the armed struggle against Israel, with Yasser Arafat’s PLO turning away from violence and ...

The fate of Hamas now hangs in the balance as Israel threatens to resume its war in the Gaza Strip with the full support of the United States and both nations begin drawing up postwar plans to ...