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- Discusses the origins of Hamas and important market leaders like Sheikh Yassin, Khaled Meshaal, and more
- Covers the Middle East issue from the formation of Israel to today
In 1988, a just lately prepared militant group released its charter, which called upon Muslims to "raise the banner of Allah over every inches of Palestine". The group, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, declared, "Allah is its goal, the Prophet is the model, the Qur'an its constitution, jihad its path, and death for the sake of Allah its most sublime perception." Vowing to fight off the "Zionist invaders", the charter state governments, "Enough time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews [and get rid of them]; before Jews hide behind stones and trees, which will cry: Oh Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, seriously and get rid of him!" Despite having a charter that called for the murder of Jews around the world, Israel actually bolstered this fundamentalist religious group, universally known as Hamas, during its formative years in the 1980s. After occupying the Gaza Strip, Israel urged the climb of Islamists as a means of undercutting the secular Palestine Liberation Group, which Israel possessed always seen as the greater threat. Among the individuals who Israel helped was Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, head of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gaza Strip, who had prepared a charity that built mosques, night clubs, and classes there. Less than 20 years later, the politics situation in the Palestinian territories became a lot more complicated. But the extent of cooperation between Hamas and the Palestinian Power during the 90s and early 2000s was disputed, Hamas was voted into electric power in elections in the Gaza Strip and the two sides eventually engaged in a civil war in 2007, with Hamas crushing the PA's makes in the Gaza Strip and becoming the sole power in that territory.
