Israel has invaded Gaza...

[Ike Bana]

I thought I would revisit the issue of the difference between Hamas, Isis and Al-Qaeda being that the former is interested only in securing a homeland for poor oppressed Palestinians and not the establishment of a Caliphate...

Article 33 of the Hamas charter:
The Islamic Resistance Movement, being based on the common coordinated and interdependent conceptions of the laws of the universe, and flowing in the stream of destiny in confronting and fighting the enemies in defense of the Moslems and Islamic civilization and sacred sites, the first among which is the Aqsa Mosque, urges the Arab and Islamic peoples, their governments, popular and official groupings, to fear Allah where their view of the Islamic Resistance Movement and their dealings with it are concerned. They should back and support it, as Allah wants them to, extending to it more and more funds till Allah's purpose is achieved when ranks will close up, fighters join other fighters and masses everywhere in the Islamic world will come forward in response to the call of duty while loudly proclaiming: Hail to Jihad. Their cry will reach the heavens and will go on being resounded until liberation is achieved, the invaders vanquished and Allah's victory comes about.

The above is clearly a call for worldwide jihad...an Islamic Caliphate.

Fathi Hammad, Hamas Minister of Interior and National Security, November 2013:
"We look forward to future victories, in which, Allah willing, we will liberate our land, our Jerusalem, our Al-Aqsa [Mosque], our cities and our villages, Allah willing, all this in preparation for establishing the next Islamic Caliphate. Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are at the brink of a period of global Islamic culture, whose fuel is Gaza, whose spearhead is Gaza, its Jihad fighters (Mujahideen) and commanders are Gaza, Allah willing…"

Gaza is nothing more than the stepping off point for the next Islamic Caliphate.

Official Hamas cleric Muhsen Abu 'Ita, 2008:
Palestine's blessing is linked to destruction of the center of global corruption, the snake's head [Israel]. When the snake's head of [global] corruption is cut off, here in Palestine, and when the octopus's tentacles are cut off around the world, the real blessing will come with the destruction of the Jews, here in Palestine, and it is one of the splendid real blessings in Palestine. A greater blessing will come later, praise Allah, the Lord of the worlds, with the establishment world-wide of a rightly-guided Caliphate."

So much for the differences between Hamas, Isis and Al-Qaeda. Finn...you're in bed with the philosophical and operational partners of the same people who have been slaughtering innocent "infidels" in Syria, and the philosophical and operational partners of the same people who incinerated and crushed 3,000 innocent people to death on 9/11.