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...Hamas opposed the Oslo peace process from the outset because it involved recognizing Israel's existence, and set about trying sabotaging that process by sending waves of suicide bombers into Israeli cities in the mid-1990s. The organization's ultimate goal is to create an Islamic state in all of pre-1948 Palestine, which includes all of Israel. But its short-term objective is to drive the Israelis out of all territories they conquered in June 1967 - the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza...
...umbrella organization that has been overwhelmingly secular since its inception. Today it remains dominated by the secular nationalists of Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization. Before Oslo, the PLO's affiliate organizations, which included smaller leftist groups such as the PFLP and DFLP, operated from exile in the Arab world. The PLO's various factions maintained small guerrilla wings that periodically carried out terror attacks against Israeli targets, and also operated illegal underground structures in the West Bank and Gaza...
...Oslo Accord switched things around. Arafat became Israel's partner in peace and the Fatah leadership was brought home to run the Palestinian Authority; Hamas found itself alongside Islamic Jihad and Arafat's erstwhile leftist allies in rejecting the agreement. But by now Hamas was a large, well-established section of Palestinian political society, which Arafat could not simply wish away...
...Moussa Abu Marzouk looks at home. But he is a new resident of Syria, having arrived just three years ago after being expelled from Jordan. In 1997, he was deported from the U.S. after being held as a suspected terrorist for two years. After being largely sidelined by the Oslo peace process, Hamas is now back at center stage in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Western governments, Israel and many Palestinians believe the group represents a major threat to regional stability. Less than a week after devastating Hamas suicide attacks in Jerusalem and Haifa, and as Hamas activists were being rounded...
...full-color exhibit by HSI in the Science Center—tracing the Israeli conflict from its earliest beginnings in Zionism to the 1967 Six Day War to the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords—has been on display throughout the week, and HSI will host a series of speakers and movies scheduled for tonight and tomorrow...