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A FAQ in progress.

Hamas was democratically elected. The question is not whether they have used terrorist tactics. The Irgun used terrorist tactics, but that did not disqualify Menachem Begin from becoming Prime Minister of Israel. Begin signed a peace treaty with Egypt.

Hamas has been willing to sign a peace treaty with Israel for four years now.

Hamas did not fire rockets during the 2008 ceasefire:

…a report by the Israeli government showed that Hamas did not in fact send rockets on Israel in that period. Only 20 rockets were fired from Gaza between June and December of 2008, and they were fired by organizations other than Hamas. No Israelis were killed in that period by these little home made projectiles.

Peace is available, if Israel will accept it:

Every year, the United Nations General Assembly votes on a resolution entitled “Peaceful Settlement of the Palestine Question.” And every year the vote is the same: it’s the whole world on one side; Israel, the United States and some South Sea atolls and Australia on the other side. The vote this past year was 164-to-7. Every year since 1989—in 1989, the vote was 151-to-3, the whole world on one side, the United States, Israel and the island state of Dominica on the other side.We have the Arab League, all twenty-two members of the Arab League, favoring a two-state settlement on the June 1967 border. We have the Palestinian Authority favoring that two-state settlement on the June 1967 border. We now have Hamas favoring that two-state settlement on the June 1967 border. The one and only obstacle is Israel, backed by the United States. That’s the problem.