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CNBC: What is Hamas? What you need to know…..

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KFAR AZA, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 10: (Editors note: Image depicts death) Four bodies of Israeli civilians killed days earlier in an attack by Hamas militants wait to be collected on October 10, 2023 in Kfar Aza, israel. Israel has sealed off Gaza and conducted airstrikes on Palestinian territory after an attack by Hamas killed hundreds and took more than 100 hostages. On October 7, the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel from Gaza by land, sea, and air, killing over 700 people and wounding more than 2000. Israeli soldiers and civilians have also been taken hostage by Hamas and moved into Gaza. The attack prompted a declaration of war by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and ongoing retaliatory strikes by Israel on Gaza killing hundreds (Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Knowing an adversary is the old wisdom of the ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu in his tome The Art of War.

CNBC steps up to the task by headlining this: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/10/hamas-israel-conflict-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-hamas.html

What is Hamas? What you need to know about the militant group that rules the Gaza Strip

The story reports:

“What is Hamas?

Founded in 1987 and led by Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas is an acronym for Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya, or the “Islamic Resistance Movement.”

It is dedicated to the establishment of an independent Islamic state in historical Palestine and has controlled the Gaza Strip — one of two Palestinian territories, along with the West Bank — since 2007. The United Nations classifies Israel as an occupier state over the Palestinian territories, whose occupations and annexations following the 1967 Six-Day War remain in violation of international law.

Hamas is one of two major political forces in the Palestinian territories, the other being Fatah, a rival group previously known as the Palestinian National Liberation Movement. Fatah retains control of the Palestinian National Authority in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.”

The question, of course, is whether all these pro-Palestinian rallies have many who know anything about Hamas at all.

Don’t bet on it.