@HistoryBoomer There is an "op" in that activists on both sides are certainly pushing their agendas. That viral tweet was an "op" -- technically.
But it's success was more by chance than design. Conspiracies are just not that good to get a tweet to go that viral.
This "op" is just framing trying to explain how the other side is somehow illegitimate. "Your side is just propaganda and ops, my side is truth that we are trying to get out."
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Al-Zahar was a leading figure at Mujamma al-Islami, the civil services institution headed by Sheikh Yassin which augured and portended Hamas.
The foundational members of al-Mujamma’ al-Islami included Sheikh Yassin, Dr. Mahmour Zahar, Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantissi, Ibrahim Yazouri, Abd al-Fattah Dukhan, Issa al-Najjar, Salah Shehadeh, Khalil Koka, Dr. Mohammad Siam Fadel Khaled Zabout, Ibrahim Abu Salem, and Ahmad al-Alami. These founders were recently graduated students from the lower middle classes.
As Sara Roy writes, "Established as a voluntary institution that linked education and religion within a service construct, the Mujamma stated that its aim was to provide Islamic education and sports for Gaza’s youth, and welfare assistance and health care for Gaza’s poor. […] the Mujamma expanded its institutional base through which it continued to provide needed social services, creating a public sphere that would rival that of the ‘state’ then run by Fatah]. It was also through the Mujamma that the message of reformist Islam was transmitted. Branches were established throughout the Gaza Strip, particularly in the refugee camps. These branches ran nursery schools, kindergartens, play groups, health clinics, sports and youth clubs, a nursing school, a center for women’s activities, a drug rehabilitation program, and other social centers and religious activities. The Mujamma operated in the poorest areas of Gaza, renting buildings and establishing programs for the local population, an approach that typified its community work. In Khan Younis, for example, the Mujamma established a medical clinic that was staffed by its own membership, set up a dental service in the nearby refugee camp, and ran a kindergarten" (Sara Roy, "Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza," Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2011, pp. 72-73).
The Mujamma was composed of seven committees: preaching and guidance, welfare, education, charity, health, sport, and conciliation. Because the activities conducted by the Mujamma did not encompass all MB groups in the Gaza Strip, power struggles emerged over resources and social influence. (Nonetheless, by the late 1970s, the scope and organizational efficiency of the Mujamma made it the spearhead of the MB’s mainstream in the Gaza Strip.)
Al-Zahar prefigured the approach espoused by Sinwar and al-Hayya in many ways; he also vehemently opposed sectarianism and has always valued good relations with the resistance axis.
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