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HAMAS. The Quest for Power. Edition No. 1

  • Book

  • 340 Pages
  • June 2024
  • John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • ID: 5935960

Declared a terrorist menace yet voted into government in a free election, Hamas then used its Gaza power base to launch cross-border attacks that scorched Israel and transformed the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. How did a small Palestinian offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood grow to challenge long-established rivals such as the PLO? Who supports Hamas and what is its agenda? How powerful has it become and how strong will it remain?

With decades of combined experience researching and reporting from the occupied West Bank and Gaza, Jerusalem, and around the Middle East, Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell gained unrivalled access to Hamas. Drawing on years of frontline reporting and interviews with members of the group’s founding generation and their successors who now lead it, they trace Hamas’ path to the shocking attacks of 07 October 2023 and their devastating aftermath.  Its critics believe Hamas must be ousted to reach a solution to the Middle East conflict. Hamas’s supporters believe it is the solution. Nobody now believes it can be ignored.

Based on their landmark 2010 study which has been thoroughly revised and updated, this book brings the story of Hamas up to the present and will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the Middle East today.

Also available as an audiobook.

Table of Contents

Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgements

1.   What is Hamas? 

2.   In the Path of Al-Qassam

3.   Sowing

4.   The First Intifada

5.   Oslo and Collapse

6.   Second Intifada

7.   Qassam Brigades

8.   Martyrs

9.   Harvesting

10.  Women

11.  Ballot

12.  Pariahs

13.  Hamastan

14.  A General Rehearsal

15.  We Are At War

Chronology

Notes

Authors

Beverley Milton-Edwards Queens University Belfast. Stephen Farrell The New York Times.