HISTORY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Rafic Hariri, Shia Islam, Ahmed Yassin
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Outline: anti-israel forces turn to unilateralism: hezbollah and hamas. After oslo, the chief anti-zionist forces were non state actors o. Groups that acted more or less independently of the arab governments. Anti-zionist actors after oslo differed in 5 ways o. Until 2000, the chief non state anti-zionist actor had been fatah and the plo. Two new organizations replaced fatah and the plo: While hamas, like the plo, was a palestinian organization, hezbollah was a. First time a non-palestinian, non-state actor had taken center stage. For the first time, a non-arab state also became actively involved: iran. Chief sponsor and ideological model for hamas and hezbollah. Under the shah, iran had befriended the united states. The new islamic republic government after 1979 was extremely hostile toward the u. s. This hostility also reflected shiite iran"s determination to downplay. Sunni-shiite differences in order to display itself as leader of the muslim world. Iran saw this as a way to enhance its strength.
