In the three and a half decades since it began as an underground militant group, Hamas has pursued a consistently violent strategy aimed at rolling back Israeli rule. And it has made steady progress, wresting concessions from Israel that eluded its more conciliatory rivals in the Palestinian Authority while also bringing enormous suffering on both sides of the conflict. The stunning incursion last weekend, in which hundreds of Israelis were killed and dozens dragged into Gaza as captives, is Ham
FILE - A Palestinian Hamas supporter attends a protest against Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip, in Gaza City, Monday, March 3, 2008. Israeli ground troops pulled out of northern Gaza before daybreak Monday, leaving behind a scene of widespread destruction in an offensive against Palestinian rocket squads that according to Palestinian medical sources has killed nearly 120 people and led the Palestinians to suspend peace talks.
Shaul Shay, an Israeli researcher and retired colonel who served in military intelligence, said Hamas “miscalculated” Israel’s response and now faces a far worse conflict than it had anticipated. Hamas claimed the withdrawal as vindication for its approach, and the following year it won a landslide victory in Palestinian elections. In 2007, after bitter infighting, it violently seized Gaza from the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority., Hamas only grew more powerful. Each time it had more rockets that traveled farther. Each time its top leaders survived, securing a cease-fire andimposed by Israel and Egypt.
The Palestinian leadership in the West Bank recognized Israel and renounced armed struggle over three decades ago, hoping it would lead to a state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, territories seized by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war.
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