(Simon Wiesenthal Center) - A new report on Hamas by the Simon Wiesenthal Center - Unmasking Hamas' Hydra of Terror - debunks the EU position that there is a distinction between the military and political branches of the movement. In Hamas, the civilian infrastructure remains totally subordinate to the leadership and has no independence from it. In fact, the so-called civilian network, which emphasizes social services, allocates substantial amounts of its budget to subsidize the military wing, to finance terrorist operations, and to recruit volunteers for suicide missions.
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