You may be interested in knowing the following about Hamas, extracted from Haim Shore, Coincidences in the Bible and in Biblical Hebrew (249)
● Hamas (Harakat Muqawama Islamiyya—the Islamic Resistance Movement) was founded on December 14, 1987. The Hamas Covenant plainly declares: “There is no other solution for the Palestinian problem other than jihad. All the initiatives and international conferences are a waste of time and a futile game.” [The equivalent is stated in the Covenant of the PLO-Palestinian Authority. (PE)]
● In the democratic elections that took place in January 2006, Hamas had won a majority in the parliament [of the Palestinian Authority], and thus became the dominant faction of in the Palestinian political arena.
● What is the Hebrew meaning of Hamas (Chamas in Hebrew and in Arabic)?
— Chamas = act of seizing somebody else’s proper (plundering, extortion, property seized unjustly)
—The first mentioning of the word chamas in the Bible is at the opening paragraph describing why God brought the deluge: “The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with chamas ….”
[By the way, the root of the word Philistine (Palestinian) in Hebrew means to invade, to trespass, to go to the extreme of injustice. (PE)]
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