
Hamas, Explained
Unpacking Israeli History
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Hamas Exiled to Lebanon
In 1992, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and his government expelled hundreds of Hamas men to Lebanon. A week into this whole mess Hezbollah came to visit, and that changed everything. After a year of international pressure, Israel allowed the Hamas men to come back. The change in 1993 was dramatic and it surprised us. By late 94, by late 94, the genre had spawned copycats. Soon suicide bombings became the terrorist weapon Dijor.
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