Hamas

The Quest for Power
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5095-6493-4
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 486 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Milton-Edwards, Beverley

Farrell, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Beverley Milton-Edwards is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Middle East Centre for Global Affairs. She was Professor of Politics at Queen’s University Belfast.

Stephen Farrell is a journalist with Reuters news agency. He was previously Jerusalem bureau chief for Reuters and The Times and both a foreign correspondent and video journalist for the New York Times.