Rice calls Hamas 'resistance movement'

WND ^ | June 26, 2007 | Aaron Klein

[Nachum]

JERUSALEM – U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice twice referred to Hamas as a "resistance movement" during a meeting with reporters from the New York Daily News earlier this month, but the newspaper did not report her remarks, WND has learned.

Rice's interview is transcribed in full on the State Department website.

Rice's statements mark the second documented time in recent months she called Hamas a "resistance movement" during unscripted chats with journalists.

Hamas is responsible for scores of suicide bombings, shooting attacks and rocket firings. It's classified by the State Department as a terror organization. The group's official charter calls for the murder of Jews and quotes widely from the anti-Semitic creed, the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion."

During the interview June 8 with the editorial board of the Daily News, Rice was asked about the recent history of democratic elections in the Middle East resulting in the rise to power of terror groups, such as Hamas.

Rice told the paper it was "very interesting to see Hamas trying to come to terms with no longer being really a resistance movement, but having to deal with politics."

Rice then referred to Hamas as a resistance movement a second time during then interview.

"A moderate Palestinian friend of mine said, 'You know, they (Hamas) used to be the great resistance, running the streets with their faces covered and going after Israel. And now, they look like a bunch of politicians who also can't make the sewer system work.'"

She went on to reference Hamas' terror cells, calling them the group's "military wing," which regularly carries out terror attacks, including shootings and firing of rockets into Jewish population centers.

"And they're (Hamas) clearly uncomfortable in that framework, which is part of why I think you see the military wing of Hamas trying to make this again about Israel and the Palestinians, not about the contestation of politics inside the Palestinian territories," Rice said.

Rice's remarks were not challenged by the Daily News editors. Much of the interview was conducted by Daily News Chairman Mort Zuckerman, who is also a prominent Jewish leader.

Reached for comment, Zuckerman told WND, "The U S government officially refers to Hamas as a terrorist organization, and I can't imagine that isn't her policy as well."

A State Department spokesman could not explain why Rice called Hamas a "resistance movement." The spokesman confirmed the State Department had not changed its policy of classifying Hamas as a terror organization.

Rice's Daily News interview was the second recorded time in recent months she called Hamas a "resistance movement."

WND reported Rice, speaking to reporters in Berlin Jan. 18 about the situation of Palestinians prior to 2000, commented, "You had Hamas, of course, sitting out as a resistance movement, not at all, by the way, involved in the politics at all."

Rice's remarks at the time prompted some U.S. Jewish groups to demand an apology to victims of Hamas terror.

[Nachum]

This woman the worst SOS since Jimmy Carter and Cyrus Vance.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Well, they ARE a “resistance movement”. They just happen to be resisting against civilization.

[Mr. Mojo]

Hamas is a much of a "resistance movement" as Al Qaeda.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“This woman the worst SOS since Jimmy Carter and Cyrus Vance.”

This is the same woman who only 18 months ago we were touting as the next POTUS.

[PGalt]

Quite the euphemism. Definitions are the guardians of reason and logic.

[ovrtaxt]

They’re a ‘movement’ all right.

Rice has ended her own career- at least as far as conservatives will ever support her.

[jdm]

Some even to this day. It’s silly.

[kinoxi]

I used to like the lady.

[jdm]

She should go back to doing what she does best: playing Brahms.

[yooper]

Cyrus Vance isn't fit to lick her boots. Let's give credit where credit is due here. Rice has done a Thatcher-like job.

I confess to a bit of bias here towards women in leadership roles, but I'd have no problem voting for Rice for any high office.

[EagleUSA]

This administration has simply FALLEN APART. A TOTAL LACK OF LEADERSHIP AND RATIONAL THINKING. No wonder Washington is out of control — the criminal libs are running amuck, lawless as ever, with NO ACCOUNTABILITY....and the Repubs, well hard to say whatever happened to them. Some of them have become liberals and the others, well, are hiding from the MSM and anyone else that might confront them....

What a freakin’ mess. Thomas Jefferson is doing backflips in his grave.

[Salem]

This is revealing how quickly the U.S. government can turn against Israel, for political expedience. The time is quickly coming when all this American Evangelical "support" of the Nation of Israel will be tested as mere whimsical happy talk, or a credible cultural force able to keep trends, such as those inadvertantly revealed, here at bay.

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" ... It's time we recognized the nature of the conflict. It's total war and we are all involved. Nobody on our side is exempted because of age, gender, or handicap. The Islamofacists have stolen childhood from the world."—FReeper Retief
"Palestine is the wrong name for their State. It should be called Anarchy."—FReeper sgtbono2002
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A student told his professor he was going to "Palestine" to "fight for freedom, peace and justice,"—Orwellian leftist code words that mean "murder Jews."

[Nachum]

Jimmah legitimized the Ayatollah and helped to destroy the Shah. This woman is the first SOS to call Israel occupiers and legitimize terrorists who the Ayatollahs directly finance.

I wouldn't vote her dog catcher.

[dufekin]

I’m not sure, but “resistance movement” may represent a simple literal translation of the name of Hamas or its self-description. And this “resistance movement” does resist against the relatively high ethical standards of warlords, cavemen, bandits, and street criminals.

[rlmorel]

Me too. What the hell happened to her? Just goes to show...if you go to Foggy Bottom, you are screwed for sure.

[expatpat]

I don’t hear many here at FR advocating her candidacy for POTUS anymore.....She went to Foggy Bottom and ‘went native’!

[Diogenesis]

"Rice has done a Thatcher-like job."

Thatcher would not have given missiles, money and weapons
to terrorists who murder Brits.

Rice has supported murderers, slavers, and terrorists.

The WOT has revealed her to be a terrorist-enabler.

[Tailgunner Joe]

H.A.M.A.S. is a acronym which stands for “Harakat Al-Muqawama Al-Islamia” or “Islamic Resistance Movement.”

[Fitzcarraldo]

again, I wonder if the water in DC has been tainted

[Fitzcarraldo]

again, I wonder if the water in DC has been tainted