is based on this comment from Douglas Carpenter:
"but they are also pro-poor people just as many authoritarian Marxist-Leninist parties were also pro-poor people. Both Hamas and Hezbollah have networks of schools and clinics and other social services. This certainly does not make them progressive. But it does have a lot to do with their base of support".and not on their terrorist activities as one could be led to believe
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