 ::Obfuscation it is. (The only dog I have in this (which is not a 'fight) is to be dogged about being precise, and being neutral.) I object to the Hamas or its military wing formulation because it conflates two organizations. We have two articles, one on Hamas (this) and one on its military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. The US, Canada and Israel don't distinguish them,  almost everyone else does, for the simple reason that 'terrorist organizations', democratically elected, that run social services, schools, hospitals, and a whole society under an elected mandate do not fit the standard concept of a terrorist organization. Hamas runs a microstate. Saying my attempt to make the distinction most states make is 'an attempt to legitimize Hamas' is silly. Israel and the US attempt to delegitimize it, as did the earlier version. We don't enter into the merits of that: we simply are obliged to get the facts straight. By the way, a large number of the newspaper sources reporting that Japan put Hamas on its terror list seem to be citing this article, and not independently verifiable sources. Bad sourcing means Wikipedia becomes an authority for the very sources it draws on, i.e., meme circulation.  