Attempts to excise the group and its leaders are unlikely to succeed and risk not only perpetuating the cycle of violence but spreading it wider<\/p>\n
In late 1935, a small band of irregulars led by a Syrian-born Islamist cleric launched a guerrilla campaign against the British mandatory government that had the establishment of a Jewish \u201cnational home\u201d in what was then predominantly Arab Palestine, as part of its purview. The campaign was swiftly suppressed by British forces, and its leader, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, was killed as were the majority of his men.<\/p>\n
But Qassam\u2019s readiness to take up arms and die in the service of the Palestinian cause made a deep and lasting impression on Palestinian society, and his \u201cmartyrdom\u201d became a symbol of sacrifice that has continued to resonate throughout the past 90 years, eventually providing both inspiration and a name to Hamas\u2019s armed wing in the late 1980s. The fact that Qassam failed was essentially irrelevant. More important was his embodiment of the spirit of dogged and selfless resistance to foreign domination despite the imbalance of power and the unlikely prospects of success. Qassam also set the Palestinian national movement down the path of \u201carmed struggle\u201d that was eventually adopted by Yasser Arafat\u2019s \u201cmainstream\u201d Fatah movement from the late 1950s onwards but whose role has diminished since the 1993 Oslo accord with Israel.<\/p>\n
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