The American citizens who are defending their right to build a community center including a mosque, performing arts center, gym, swimming pool and other public spaces, have little to nothing to do with either Hamas or Hezbollah. Their refusal to take sides in the Israeli/Palestinian dispute or the US war on terrorism, does not imply support for either side.
Hamas and Hezbollah are far more complex than the selective truths posted by Goober. People who want to understand these groups on a level deeper, should know more than the propaganda in the MSM. Wikipedia is a good place to start:
Hamas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Also note this aspect of Hamas.
wiki:
Hamas is particularly popular among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, though it also has a following in the West Bank, and to a lesser extent in other Middle Eastern countries. Its popularity stems in part from its welfare and social services to Palestinians in the occupied territories, including school and hospital construction. Hamas devotes up to 90% of its estimated $70 million annual budget to an extensive social services network, running many relief and education programs, and funds schools, orphanages, mosques, healthcare clinics, soup kitchens, and sports leagues. Such services aren't generally provided by The Palestinian Authority. According to the Israeli scholar Reuven Paz "approximately 90 percent of the organization's work is in social, welfare, cultural, and educational activities".[107][108][109][110]
You can also check out Hamas's website. (which is about as fair and balanced as FoxNews)
The Palestinian Information Center
The same with Hezbollah
wiki:
Hezbollah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hezbollah News Service:
Al-ManarTV :: News
Hamas won the 2006 elections fairly:
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Hamas sweeps to election victory
Hamas was not able to fulfill their democratic mandate because the former government led by Fatah, refused to hand over power. Instead, Fatah began arresting and killing members of Hamas with the support of Israel and the US. Hamas retaliated and the result was a civil war.
US and Israeli support for Fatah and their involvement in the Palestinian civil war:
The Gaza Bombshell | Politics | Vanity Fair
Israel allows guns across border to support Fatah leader against rivals
Israel allows guns across border to support Fatah leader against rivals - Times Online
While it is in Hamas's charter to destroy Israel, they have offered long term truces with Israel repeatedly:
The position of Hamas at one time was that in exchange for a truce, return to the 1967 borders, recognition of the right of return of millions of Palestinians living in refugee camps throughout the region, Hamas would not take any military action against Israel for a generation. Moderate Hamas leaders have repeatedly expressed their desire to focus on charity work and improving the lives of Palestinians, not defend themselves from Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity:
United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza conflict
Not only has Israel ignored repeated Hamas truce offers, they deliberately assassinated moderate Hamas leaders, who make them:
Abu Shanab
Killing of Hamas leader, Ismail Abu Shanab, ends truce | From Occupied Palestine
Israel kept killing Hamas leaders even after Abu Shanab managed to get all the main militant groups to agree to a ceasefire as per the 2006 road map to peace.
Road map for peace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Israeli assassination of the Hamas truce negotiator Abu Shanab effectively ended the "Roadmap to peace".
My point is, Hamas is more than a militant resistance group. Most of their efforts are focused on charity and politics. Israel is far from being an innocent victim in this war and many of their actions seem designed to deliberately provoke violence and maintain the status quo, which allows them to continue their illegal activities which include ethnic cleansing (crime against humanity), land grabs (war crime) and colonization (war crime).