Well, apparently, you mistakenly assume that the Palestinians can organize anything autonomously -- that is, without significant interference and/or hands-on manipulation by the Israeli government. Recent history has proven you wrong.
Israel's hand in helping to establish and maintain Hamas as the de facto Palestinian government went well beyond allowing it to fund its social programs. In fact, prior to that, they released the founder of Hamas from his life sentence, so that he could establish the resistance to Arafat's movement which favored the Oslo Accords.
I know you wouldn't just fabricate that camel crap so how about providing a link to the source of that "fact."
What is it with you and the incessant begging for links? Haven't you ever tried thinking for yourself based on an unbiased look at the history?
The Palestinian general election of 1996, which legitimized the Fatah as a democratically elected regional government, is every bit as historically factual as Ahmed Yassin's oddly-timed release from his life sentence in 1997 by none other than Bibi Netanyahu.
Of course, the tensions between Arafat's and Yassin's respective movements had been brewing since the inception of Hamas in 1987, following Yassin's
1985 release from a 13 year prison sentence by Ariel Sharon.
And as noted even
by this notoriusly biased source:
[. . .] Yassin was arrested in 1984 and sentenced to 13 years in jail for illegal possession of arms, the establishment of a military organization and calling for the annihilation of Israel. Yassin acknowledged that he founded an organization of religious activists with the goal of fighting non-religious factions in the territories, and carrying out "Jihad" operations against Israel. This organization used monies from Islamic activists in Jordan to acquire large quantities of weapons. Yassin was imprisoned until May 1985, when he was released in a prisoner exchange deal between Israel and the terrorist organization of Ahmed Jibril.
During the first intifada in 1987, Sedan notes, "Yassin transformed his Islamic Organization into a new body called Hamas. An acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas means zeal in Arabic. In Hebrew, it means evil."
The organization gained popular support in the territory in part because of its uncompromising position toward Israel, expressing in its covenant the conspiracy theories of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and a commitment to wage war against the Jews and “raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine.” It also filled a vacuum left by Arafat's failure to provide basic services to the Palestinians in Gaza. By establishing a social welfare system of schools, clinics and hospitals that provide free services to Palestinian families. Hamas also established charitable funds in the territories, Israel, and around the world, which financed both its social and anti-social activities.
In 1989, Yassin ordered Hamas to kidnap Israeli soldiers inside Israel, to murder them and bury their bodies in a manner that would allow Hamas to negotiate the exchange of bodies for Hamas prisoners, who would be released from jails in Israel. Yassin was arrested after the abduction and murder of IDF soldier Ilan Sa'adon, and the discovery of the body of IDF soldier Avi Sasports, who was also abducted and murdered. Yassin confirmed during his interrogation that he ordered the establishment of a military element within Hamas and approved the drafting of terrorists, as well as the carrying out of terrorist attacks. He was tried in Israel and received two life sentences for his involvement in these attacks.
Yassin was held from May 1989 until October 1997, when he was released in exchange for two Mossad agents following a bungled assassination attempt in 1997 by the Mossad on a Hamas activist in Jordan. ...[emphasis Capstone's]
...Hamas benefited from its capacity to fund social programs, due in part to the "vacuum" attributed to "Arafat's failure" -- a
failure that was the direct result of Israeli manipulation of the fund-raising avenues available to him.
Incidentally, the two conveniently-timed releases mentioned above followed Yassin's 1967 release. Prior to his death in 2004, it seems the guy had been jailed and released by the Israelis on a fairly regular basis.
. So the previous 3 invasions were failures?
