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Hamas, n.
Brit. |haˈmas|, U.S. |hɑˈmɑs|
[‹ Arabic Ḥamās > n.) as in the official name of the organization, Ḥarakat al-Muqāwama al-Islāmiyya Islamic Resistance Movement, punningly after ḥamās valour, gallantry, zealotry (popularly connoting rigorous resistance and military activism); compare ḥamāsa zeal, enthusiasm, martial valour.
The m may have come to be regarded by some Arabs as standing for Arabic musallaḥa armed in al-Ḥaraka al-Musallaḥa al-Islāmiyya The Islamic Armed Movement.]
The common name for: the Islamic Resistance Movement, a militant Islamic organization in the Middle East, founded in 1987 with the aim of establishing a Palestinian state incorporating present-day Israel and the West Bank.
Established as a wing of the pan-Arab Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas became the focus of Arab resistance in the Israeli-occupied territories. Its 1988 Covenant views Palestinian nationalism as part of Islamic ideology, and sets out its opposition to negotiations with Israel or any third party.
1988Chicago Tribune 22 Aug. 8/5 One of the worst riots in months broke out there on the same day as called for by the Islamic Resistance Movement, known by its acronym in Arabic, Hamas. 1993J. Krieger Oxf. Compan. Polit. World 464/1 An apparent growth in the influence in the occupied territories, especially in the Gaza Strip, of Islamic factions such as Hamas, which did not accept the idea of a negotiated settlement advocated by the PLO, and characterized the conflict in absolute, uncompromising religious terms. 1996Daily Tel. (Electronic Ed.) 1 Mar. Military sources say that 95 per cent of Hamas's resources support its network of schools, hospitals, mosques and social bodies. 2001Independent 19 May 13/2 It was the seventh Hamas suicide bomb in the intifada. Yesterday, as is customary after the death of a so-called ‘martyr’, Hamas activists distributed sweets. |