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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/international/middleeast/21hamas.html
Hamas Pushing for Lead Role in a New Gaza
(New York Times) James Bennet - Hamas has "a mission," said Ziad Abu Amr, a political scientist and independent legislator who serves as a liaison between Abbas and Hamas. "They want to Islamicize the state and society. Yes, in the final analysis, they want control." As he quoted leaders of Hamas who were killed by Israel - but never mentioned Arafat or Abbas - the imam at the Caliph Mosque spoke of a bigger dream. "Tomorrow there will be the West Bank and Jerusalem, and all the Palestinian sands," he said, meaning lands. "We will go on, on that road, for the resistance to move inside the West Bank, then into all our Palestinian sands. This victory is due to the resistance strikes."