http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020422&s=hammerrubin042202
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http://carlisle-www.army.mil (very slow web site; don't bother unless you have broadband)
I can email the paper to someone willing to post it on a web site.
A THEORY OF FUNDAMENTALISM: AN INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE MOVEMENT 1995 Stephen C. Pelletiere U.S. Army War College
"To a large extent, the fundamentalist challenge is taken seriously today because of Hamas. No other resistance organization has caused such concern among Western policymakers. Despite all the attention, however, aspects of Hamas's career are obscure. One area in particular has been neglected; Hamas's relationship with the Jewish fundamentalist movement. It can be argued that the latter turned Hamas into its course of violent activity. . . "
"For a time, the IDF made no move to curb Hamas. Indeed, it seemed actually to encourage its activities. The reason for this was that--even in the early days of the intifadah--Hamas fought the PLO and the "leftists"; it spent as much time fighting them as it did the occupation authorities. At a point, however, Hamas changed, and this compelled the IDF to move against it. . . . "