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May 16, 2017

Hamas, Like the PLO, Is a Failure

Time is on Israel’s side.

Since its creation in 1987, Hamas has had “resistance”—i.e., the destruction of Israel by violent means—as its goal. It’s proved no more successful at it than did the PLO, which pursued the same goal from its founding in 1964 until the signing of the Oslo Accords and again during the second intifada. Nor, writes Hillel Frisch, has Hamas been any more successful at governing the Gaza Strip:

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