Nadene Goldfoot
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The History of Hamas is an account of the Palestinian nationalist and Islamist socio-political organization with an associated paramilitary force who are terrorists, the Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades. Hamas is an acronym meaning "Islamic Resistance Movement".
Hamas was established in 1987, and has its origins in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood movement, which had been active in the Gaza Strip since the 1950s and gained influence through a network of mosques and various charitable and social organizations. In the 1980s the Brotherhood emerged as a powerful political factor, challenging the influence of the PLO, and in 1987 adopted a more nationalist and activist line under the name of Hamas. During the 1990s and early 2000s, the organization conducted numerous suicide bombings and other attacks against Israel.
In the Palestinian legislative election of January 2006, Hamas gained a large majority of seats in the Palestinian Parliament, defeating the ruling Fatah party. After the elections, conflicts arose between Hamas and Fatah, which they were unable to resolve. In June 2007, Hamas defeated Fatah in a series of violent clashes, and since that time Hamas has governed the Gaza portion of the Palestinian Territories, while at the same time the unity government of which they formed a part in the West Bank was dissolved by the Palestinian Authority (PA). Israel and Egypt then imposed an economic blockade on Gaza and largely sealed their borders with the territory.
Israeli Plans for the after-the war leadership of Gaza are backed by a broad consensus: removing Hamas as the governing authority and destroying its military infrastructure to the point where it is incapable of operating in anything other than small groups, thus making it incapable of carrying out more October 7–style assaults.
Israel’s current transition to a less intense style of warfare based on targeted raids and special operations will not alter this objective. This phase of the war has been expected to last six to nine months. Now that Israel is forced by the USA to wait out Iran's known vow to attack big-time till Israelis are attacked first may have changed this plan.
In principle, the Israeli public would also like to see the expansion of the Abraham Accords to include Saudi Arabia. In fact, it was earlier expected that the Saudis would join the accords already, but they seem to hold out, wanting a state of Palestine created first, which to me is a dead issue after October 7ths horrid events.
Skepticism that a Palestinian state will seek to coexist peacefully with Israel is both deep and widespread. Nonetheless, many in the defense establishment argue that Israel needs to articulate a political and diplomatic horizon for Gaza and the Palestinian issue more broadly. That was already done in the beginning. Israelis had high hopes for a peaceful life between them but it was the Arabs who snubbed their noses as the idea and shot at Israel with rockets, mortars and missiles instead. What Hamas is, is most disappointing to all of us.
I repeat; there never has been a country of Palestine. There was nothing other than a new name for Eretz Yisrael in the Roman language; Palaestina-named by Romans for the worst enemy of the Israelites, the Philistines. There are at least 49 Muslim majority states already in the world and only one Jewish state; that is Israel. Israelis waited for 2,000 years to regain what they lost to the Romans. Arabs have only waited for what? 75 years? We're waiting to see signs of a peaceful nation; not mad killers for a neighbor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hamas
https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2024/02/governing-gaza-after-the-war-the-israeli-perspectives?lang=en
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