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Israel-Palestine
Main Events in Hamas’ History
2004-03-23
EFL- Was good background for me. Delete if it is common knowledge.
December 1987: First Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation erupts, and Yassin founds Hamas as an Islamic resistance movement against Israel.

1988: Hamas publishes manifesto calling for "holy war" to create an Islamic state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, including Israel, and challenging the Palestine Liberation Organization’s claim as the sole representative of the Palestinian people.

1989: Hamas militants kill Israelis in dozens of shooting attacks; Israel outlaws Hamas as a terrorist organization.

1989: Israel imprisons Yassin.

1991: Hamas forms "Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades," its military wing, for attacks against Israelis.

April 6, 1994: First Hamas car bombing kills eight in Israeli city of Afula.

April 13, 1994: First Hamas suicide bombing kills five in Israeli city of Hadera.

Oct. 19, 1994: Hamas suicide bomber blows up Tel Aviv bus, killing 22.

Jan. 6, 1996: Hamas master bombmaker Yehiyeh Ayyash killed in explosion, Israel held responsible.

February to March 1996: 47 Israelis killed in three suicide attacks in retaliation for killing of Ayyash.

September 1997: Yassin released from prison after botched Israeli attempt to kill Hamas leader in Jordan.

September 2000: Second Palestinian uprising begins.

June 1, 2001: Hamas suicide bomber blows up outside Tel Aviv disco, killing 21.

Aug. 9, 2001: Hamas suicide bomber blows up Jerusalem restaurant, killing 15.

March 27, 2002: Hamas bomber blows up Netanya hotel, killing 29.

July 23, 2002: Israel drops one-ton bomb on house of Hamas leader Salah Shehadeh in Gaza, killing him and 14 others.

Aug. 21, 2003: Hamas leader Ismail Shanab killed in Israeli airstrike.

August-September 2003: 39 killed in three Hamas suicide bombings.

Sept. 6, 2003: Yassin slightly wounded in Israeli bombing in Gaza.

March 14, 2004: Two bombers, one from Hamas, kill 10 at Ashdod port.

March 22, 2004: Yassin juiced killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.
Posted by:Super Hose

#8  ex-lib - Think they'd pull a March of Dimes scam and just look for another disease? Hard to give up those executive perks, I guess.
Posted by: .com   2004-3-23 1:51:04 PM  

#7  Nice one, Barry. Thanks for the info.

Funny, but I remember that about 25 years ago Hamas was being hailed by Arab college students as a humanitarian organization that would help build up the Arab people and states--THEN they could go and dismantle Israel in style. I always found it curious that the two aims went together, somehow, in their minds. If you think about it, Hamas was (and is) the ULTIMATE liberal-oriented political organization. Hamas removes personal responsibility from the people by giving them money (the dole), then encourages them to work for them (i.e. Hamas) to achieve HAMAS' particular political aims, whether or not those aims are good for the people. Shame on the Arab people for whoring themselves like that. If Hamas was truly legitimate, it should've provided humanitarian aid and worked to help the people establish freedom and democracy in their own countries. But I forgot--it's ALL about Israel, those Zionist pigs! blah-blah-blah. And America--without whom the Zionist pigs could not exist. blah-blah-blah. Destroy them both! DESTROY! DESTROY! blah-blah-blah.

Hamas was always a ruse organization. They always had an agenda, despite how they pawned themselves off in the early days. If they did ever succeed in blowing Israel away, wonder what they'd do next?
Posted by: ex-lib   2004-3-23 1:46:04 PM  

#6  March 14, 2004: Two bombers, one from Hamas, kill 10 at Ashdod port.

What it does not state is that had the bombers succeeded in perforating the Bromide storage tanks the death toll would have been in the hundreds.

Also this list does not state how many have been incapacitated for life because of the injuries sustained.
Posted by: Barry   2004-3-23 11:41:43 AM  

#5  I've got this in table form on my blog. Also snips from the Hamas charter where they rale against Jews, Zionists, Crusaders and the Rotary Club. Those damn Rotarians!
Posted by: Chuck Simmins   2004-3-23 9:38:54 AM  

#4  Looks like according to those pictures yesterday, a Hellfire can be tough on the ol' coconut.
Posted by: JerseyMike   2004-3-23 7:59:41 AM  

#3  [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]
Posted by: Removed   2004-3-23 7:59:40 AM  

#2  The Passion of The Yassin...I'll probably join you, gezzer.
Posted by: john   2004-3-23 7:19:07 AM  

#1  Sheik-Sheik-Sheik,.. Sheik-Sheik-Sheik,
shake yer empty dismembered head,
shake yer empty dismembered head...

I'll take the risk of going to hell for that one.
Posted by: geezer   2004-3-23 3:05:26 AM  

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