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 adDin alQassam Brigades The US Canada and Israel dont 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 dont 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 ie meme circulation