An expert on Hamas said the terrorist group, whose attack on Israel last week was called a “historic win” by a far-left campus organization, believes the destruction of Israel is a key to its desire to see the world subjugated under a radical Islamic caliphate after a Qatar-based leader called for global “Jihad.”
Dr. Jonathan Schanzer is an expert on Iran-backed terrorist groups as a senior vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Schanzer explained the terror group's ideology after last week, Khaled Meshaal, the former chief of Hamas's political bureau for more than 20 years, called for Muslims across the world to get involved in Jihad.
“The first thing that [Hamas] wants to do is to conquer Israel,” Schanzer said. “And then from there, it would like to see the world subjugated to an Islamic caliphate. In other words, a governing structure in the world that is led by Muslims… [since] it believes in Muslim supremacy as a general principle.”
“Hamas believes that the conquest of Israel is the first step that is needed along the way. This actually… [is] the sort of thing that we saw from al-Qaeda, from ISIS and others.”