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They presented themselves as a better alternative to the plo. But as Islam is known to do, they lied to whom they consider their enemy. Just as they did to the US. Israel was between and rock and hard place.
The Muslim brotherhood is where it’s founding is from.
Sure, they were Islamists. I'm not debating otherwise. But Isreal pushed the Islamists against the Palestine Liberation Organization (again, to counter Arafat) which, of course, established ''Hamas'' back in the 80s.
It was Prime Minister Golda Meir who wanted to counter Arafat's Fata movement which he did by using Ahmed Yassin's Islamic Charity Association and this was encouraged my the Israeli military authority. And by the early 90s there were hundreds of mosques set up in Gaza.