Article: Hamas assault on Israel, rebellion against its oppressor? - Hamas controls the gov't in Gaza. It conducted an assault against Israeli's attacking southern Israeli settlements last Saturday. Hamas has taken 100's of Israeli's hostage. Israel has responded w/ a massive retaliatory bombing attack on Gaza. But consider: the Palestinian's are an occupied people living under Israeli rule. So @ times they resist their captors w/ a violent armed assault. That is what happened on Saturday.