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Originally Posted by derrida
Begin and Shamir were Prime Minister during the formative years of Hamas, both members of right wing political parties.
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That's incorrect. Israel has it's first unity Government in 1984...and the name Peres is absent from your list. Sure, Wiki says Islamic Resistance Movement/Islamic Center started in 1973, but that's not entirely true. It's like Al-Banna and Qutb never existed, though Yassin quoted them almost exclusively, and was a formal member of the Muslim Brotherhood. In effect, what became Hamas started as a Gaza chapter, funded by Saudi, Kuwati and Jordanian money.
Begin introduced the original plan to create a Palestinian Gaze State sometime around 1975'ish.... but that was also the same period when Peace Now organized, and introduced their iniatives, which are basically what we got stuck with. Peace Now pushed for negotiations, when there was nobody to negotiate with. The Palestinians had no leadership, and nobody in their right mind would have pretended the 10,000 members of the PLFP represented 600,000 refugees interests when they sought to overthrow the entire neighborhood.