• SteamedHamberder [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Hamas enjoyed popular support for precisely those reasons in the early 2000s. Many Palestinians viewed them as extremist, but capable at building things like school systems and mutual aid societies without the baggage and corruption of the PLO/FataH.

    Edit: someone posted more detail here