HAMAS EVOLUTION

 Nadene Goldfoot

Nadene Goldfoot 

                                                

                         PLO Leader Yasser Arafat 1969-2004

It started with Yasser Arafat in 1959.  Yasser Arafat became the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1969, succeeding Ahmed Shukairy. He led the PLO until his death in 2004. Prior to leading the PLO, Arafat co-founded the Fatah movement in 1959, which aimed for Palestinian independence. He also served as the President of the Palestinian Authority (PA ) from 1994 until his death. 

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The Khartoum meeting of Arab leaders, known as the Khartoum Resolution, took place from August 29 to September 1, 1967 after losing in the Six Day War with Israel. This meeting, held in Khartoum, Sudan, occurred shortly after the Six-Day War and resulted in the famous "Three No's" declaration: no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiations with Israel. The Arab League Summit also addressed the need for Arab solidarity and efforts to eliminate the effects of the recent aggression.  While Arafat was a prominent figure in Palestinian nationalism at the time, he was not a head of state or government, and thus not part of the Arab League summit. 

The First Palestinian Intifada, also known as the First Palestinian Uprising, began on December 9, 1987. The uprising was ignited by an incident in which an Israeli military truck collided with a vehicle carrying Palestinian workers, killing four of them, near the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. 

Jabalia Camp, located in the North Gaza Governorate, is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. It was established in 1948 by the United Nations to accommodate Palestinians who were displaced or expelled from their homes during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. 

• The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) plays a crucial role in providing essential services to Jabalia residents, including education, healthcare, relief and social services, infrastructure development, microfinance, and emergency response.  UNRWA operates 32 installations in Jabalia, including 16 school buildings accommodating 26 schools, a food distribution center, and health centers.  Funding for UNRWA activities is primarily from voluntary contributions from UN member states. 

Hamas came into being  in late 1987 at the beginning of the first Palestinian intifada (uprising). Its roots are in the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and it is supported by a robust sociopolitical structure inside the Palestinian territories.

With the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in 1994, no significant change occurred to the administrative or political representation of refugees. While the UNRWA continued to supervise the camps, the first municipal council was founded in Gaza City on 26 July 1994, and this time it included one member from Shati' camp, while the municipalities of Rafah , Khan Yunis , and Deir al-Balah continued to represent refugees in their locales.

 During the Second Intifada (2000–2005), Fatah intensified armed conflict against Israel, claiming responsibility for a number of suicide attacks. Fatah had been closely identified with the leadership of its founder and chairman, Yasser Arafat, until his death in 2004.  

In 2005, Israel disengaged from the Gaza Strip by dismantling all 21 Israeli settlements there. As part of this process, four Israeli settlements in the West Bank were dismantled as well. This was done in the name of peace;  giving land Israel had inherited from the Six Day War.  Ever since, it became a platform from which to shoot from closer into Israel. 

How did Hamas come to power in Gaza in the first place? That history is worth revisiting now, two and a half weeks into the war, as it tests whether Biden’s point is true.

Update: 7/28/25:  The U.S. Congress, including Senator Biden as a key co-sponsor, enacted the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act in December 2006, which codified the policy of prohibiting U.S. assistance to any Palestinian unity government involving Hamas unless these conditions were met. 

• A RAND Corporation publication states that the US, under both Bush and Obama, had a flawed policy toward Gaza that included pushing for elections despite Palestinian and Israeli reservations, which played a significant role in enabling Hamas to seize power.

It was in January 2006 that the Palestinian territories held what turned out to be their last parliamentary elections. Hamas won a bare plurality of votes (44 percent to the more moderate Fatah party’s 41 percent) but, given the electoral system, a strong majority of seats (74 to 45). Neither party was keen on sharing power. Fighting broke out between the two. When a unity government was finally formed in June 2007, Hamas broke the deal, started murdering Fatah members, and, in the end, took total control of the Gaza Strip. Those who weren’t killed fled to the West Bank, and the territories have remained split ever since.

     Fatah and Hamas who could not share the power

 On 20 February,2006  Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was nominated to form a new government. The new government with Haniyeh as Prime Minister was sworn in on 29 March. As of May 2025, no new elections have been held since this one.  He died on  31 July 2024 at age 63 in Tehran, Iran by assassination.           

      Mahmoud Abbas born 15 November 1935), also known by the kunya Abu Mazen (Arabic: أَبُو مَازِن,  is a Palestinian politician who has been serving as the second president of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) since 2005;  20 years already.  He's going to be 90 years old.  

  Farouk Kaddoumi constitutionally succeeded Arafat to the position of Fatah Chairman and continued in the position until 2009, when Abbas was elected chairman. Since Arafat's death, factionalism within the ideologically diverse movement has become more apparent.

Are there really a million Gazans starving?  Who counted them?  It's Hamas who is responsible for they started this war and will not end it.  It's either allow them to slaughter Israelis or defend Israelis that Netanyahu's responsibility lies. When a country is attacked, you'd expect that country to defend its population.  

When a country attacks another, you'd think they'd have plans if there were returned fire and be ready to defend their own.  But if it's part of a weird plan to gain hatred for their target, they would encourage it to happen.  It's their new ammunition, free and easy to spread;  people are so willing to hate Jews.

Are teens and adult Gazans getting enough food?  Hamas terrorists are.  I haven't seen any grown Gazans walking around looking like Holocaust survivors did; only the babies.  Are they being sacrificed in the name of their holy war against Israel?  

The thing that hurts Jews the most in this world is to see a starving person; and essen is their favorite word in Yiddish-eat, eat.  Hamas knows how to hit us below the belt!   This is gut wrenching for us, too, but we know how their parents sacrificed their 18 year olds by allowing them to become terrorists, and would brag about how they fought for Hamas!!  Now Hamas expects them to with hold food from their babies because it makes better PR.  Look at the adults today;  they look normal, not starving.  Hamas members will never starve.   

You think the pictures are horrible?  Jews are crying out against it even more, believe me.  It's too close to what their families have endured.  

How about the terrorists' parents-relatives?  They voted in Hamas.  They are not emaciated like their babies.  Why?  

USA companies and Israeli companies have brought in food and now the roads are blocked by Hamas.  No other country is helping the USA with food except Israel.  They only supply criticism.