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The Michele Tafoya Podcast

What is Hamas?

The Michele Tafoya Podcast

Salem Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary, Society & Culture

2.4590 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

How did Hamas come into power?  Who finances them?  How do they treat the Palestinian people they are supposed to protect?  Here’s a quick primer.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Michelle Tofoya podcast. Did you hear what Barack Obama said about what's going on in Israel, what Hamas did?

0:09.5

He said we are all to a certain extent complicit. That's as much as I'm going to say about what he said.

0:18.4

I don't want to give it any further oxygen, but I will say this. No, Mr. President,

0:24.0

not all of us are complicit. There is one group that committed the atrocities on October 7th,

0:30.6

and it is Hamas. And we're going to give you a quick primer on what this group is and why it's doing what it's doing. Next.

0:40.2

It's time for the Michelle Tofoya podcast.

0:46.6

So, times are crazy. A 69-year-old man in Thousand Oaks, California, was murdered. No, this wasn't an accidental

0:57.7

killing. Someone representing a Palestinian activist group attacked this man, who was representing

1:04.7

an Israeli activist group, attacked him with a megaphone, you know, one of those bullhorns,

1:12.6

smashed him over the head.

1:15.2

This 69-year-old man hit the ground. He is now dead.

1:22.7

This murderer must be held accountable. And I would say it if it went in the other direction.

1:27.8

If an Israeli activist did this to a Palestinian activist in Thousand Oaks, California,

1:30.1

I would say the same thing.

1:31.3

Murder is murder.

1:33.0

And this was murder.

1:39.6

You can't hit people on the head with objects that are capable of killing them.

1:42.5

In generally, you just can't hit people on the head.

1:44.4

But, you know, if it's a pillow, that's another thing.

1:57.2

So these Palestinian activists are responding to an attack from October 7th that Hamas, a terrorist group, perpetrated on Israel.

2:02.5

Hamas, you might be thinking, God, I don't know. There was the Palestinian authority.

2:08.5

There was Fata. What are we talking about here? So I'm going to give you a quick description.

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