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“Judicious and impartial, this important work adds nuance to the portrait of one of the Middle East's most divisive players” ( Publishers Weekly ). Hamas is a multifaceted liberation organization that rules Gaza and the lives of the two million Palestinians who live there. Demonized as a terrorist group in media and policy debates, it has been subjected to accusations and assumptions that have helped justify extreme military action in the region. In  Hamas Contained , Tareq Baconi offers the first history of the group on its own terms. Drawing on interviews with organization leaders, as well as publications from the group, Baconi maps Hamas’s thirty-year transition from fringe resistance to governance. Questioning the conventional understanding of Hamas, he shows how the movement's ideology ultimately threatens the Palestinian struggle and, inadvertently, its own legitimacy. Baconi demonstrates how Hamas's armed struggle has failed in the face of a relentless occupation, and he argues that Israel's approach of managing rather than resolving the conflict has neutralized Hamas’s demand for Palestinian sovereignty. This dynamic has perpetuated a deadlock characterized by its brutality

Who reads Hamas Contained : A History of Palestinian Resistance?

Author

Baconi, Tareq

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781503605817

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Social Science