Word: palestinian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Careful What You Wish For SENIOR OFFICIALS OF FATAH, YASSER ARAFAT'S P.L.O. faction, are telling of a plot that backfired on them. They say Fatah, not HAMAS, the Palestinian fundamentalist group, was responsible for the murder of an Israeli border policeman last month, which triggered the controversial expulsion from Israel of 415 alleged Hamas members. Fatah wanted to cause problems for its rivals in Hamas, which opposes the Middle East peace talks. Instead, the overreaction by the Israelis has aroused strong popular support for Hamas. P.L.O. representatives at the peace talks are refusing to continue...
...deportations seem to have had the opposite effect. They have given legitimacy to Hamas and suggested to Palestinians that, if Israel so blatantly violates international law and disregards human rights and justice, then the armed struggle advocated by Hamas may indeed be the only way to achieve Palestinian rights. Political dialogue, as Israel has demonstrated, does not alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people, but instead gives Israel license to increase...
...recognized Israel, abandoned armed struggle in the fight for Palestinian self-determination, and adopted a political approach. Its members have participated in peace talks with Israel. Hamas, on the other hand, draws those Palestinians who are fundamentalist Muslims, as well as those who oppose the negotiations. Only as Hamas became a force popular and strong enough to challenge the Israeli occupation did Israel change its policy of leniency towards the groups...
Israel's harsh action, combined with the image of Hamas as the only group still actively struggling for Palestinian rights and frustration with the fruitless peace talks, has further contributed to Hamas' popularity. Time estimates that approximately 45 percent of the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories support Hamas, but only 30 percent do so for ideological reasons. The remaining 15 percent see Hamas as an alternative to the PLO, whose peace negotiations have brought no positive results...
Haneen M. Rabie '95 is a Palestinian-American and the president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Arab Students...