Claim: When did Islamists take over the Palestinian cause?
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
In steps. A cleric's office led from 1921 (the Mufti); al-Qassam's armed cells in the 1930s; the Brotherhood from 1946. Then Hamas: founded Dec 1987, won the Jan 2006 vote, seized Gaza in June 2007.
SOURCE
Peel 1937; Legrain, Oxford Encyc. of the Islamic World (2009); Tamimi; CRS on 2006
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