“But Hamas was a very different entity back then. It has since become extremist.”
First thing those ‘non-extremists’ did after winning the 2006 election was to throw their PA rivals off of roofs.
Second thing they did was to step up their war crime of rocketing & shelling of civilian Israeli border communities.
Hamas has always been extremist, as you would’ve known if you’d read their Charter.
You skipped the homework in SCHOOL too, didn’t you. . . .