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New Clingendael Security Paper: Hamas and its Positions Towards Israel
February 11, 2009. 
The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Organization Hamas was founded in the late 1980s as an offshoot of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. The movement emerged as a doubly-driven religious-nationalist liberation movement embracing the strategy of armed resistance against occupying Israel. Consequently, Hamas shocked the world with its suicide attacks in the hearts of Israeli cities, and its continued efforts of retaliation following Israeli attacks on Palestinian targets. Then, in 2006, Hamas shocked the world once again, winning the democratic elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
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