Challenge and counterchallenge: Hamas's response to Oslo

While the Oslo, agreement consecrated Hamas's role as a new national resistance to Israel it ushered in a reality? that progressively, would tie the movement's hands. This article traces the impact on Hamas of the installation of the Palestinian Authority partictularly, in terms of undermining the cohesion of a decentralized leadership whose various wings came to face differing circumstances. After the disarray following the February-March 1996 suicide bombings, Hamas appeared to be on the upswing, with its top leadership back: from Prison and the forging of a new consensus. With the Wye River Memorandum's determination; to destroy Hamas, however, thefurure remains uncertain.