PLO comitted so many crimes they even fought as Mercs for Idi Amin and Gaddafi.
Seriously not just Hamas that ruined the cause but also PLO.
Dont forget how the PLO trained Asala and PKK fighters.
This is still talked about by many Turks even if its forgotten but a lot of Turks havent forgotten it either.
PLO even invaded Jordan which led to Pakistani intervention.
We can talk about Israel's crimes everyday but we can also talk about various Palestinian groups and their misdeeds.
That wasnt my point, my point was that the world had more sympathy for the PLO and the PFLP even they had bigger and more bloody actions.
They hijacked trains in Czechoslowakia, they hijacked almost every week a airplane and let them explode at Dawsons Field, they hijacked that big cruiseship in Italy, they were the first that used paragliders to attack militairy bases, they attacked zionist bankers (*Edward Sieff*) and sympathizers all over the world.
They even recruited foreign fighters like Carlos the Jackal who kidnapped Arabian ministers at a OPEC-meeting in Vienna, or Patrick Arguello from Venezuela who together with Layla Khaled hijacked a El Al plane and almost blow it up in London. They attracted other militants like those 3 Japanese guys who orchestrated a massacre at Lod Airport and later on occupated the French embassy in the Netherlands.
And even then the PLO and PFLP had legal offices and shelters in Paris, Rome, Algiers, Madrid, Berlin, Tripoli, Moscow. Who wants to shelter Hamas now?
Their posters hung on the same wall as Bob Marley and Che Guevara and Arafat was a guest in every country, meeting with the Pope, coming to the UN General Assembley with a olive branch.
The Palestinian resistance was symbolized in movieclips of Michael Jakson and was a spearpoint in many marxistic ideolygies and the beliefs of revolutionairy youth.
Israel couldnt beat that much propaganda at her own.
Thats why politicial islamist organisations like Hamas were invented to kill that international sympathy and the symbol of resistance.
Thats why they try to put Hamas and ISIS at the same place. If you can connect ISIS to Hamas, the you will connect the Palestinian resistance to ISIS.