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The Palestinian Hamas: Vision, Violence and Coexistence (Paperback)

by Shaul Mishal (Author), Avraham Sela (Author) "Much of the politics of Hamas can be explained in terms of the tension between the movement's dogmatic ideology and its pragmatic approach to political..." (more)

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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press (9 Mar 2000)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0231116756
ISBN-13: 978-0231116756
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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"The book "The Palestinian Hamas..". is required reading for anyone who wishes to understand Hamas." -- Mitchell Plitnick, "Jewish Voice for Peace"

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Since it emerged as a challenger to the PLO during the Palestinian Intifada, Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement) has been associated with terror and violence. Now two Israeli experts show that Hamas is essentially a social movement, providing extensive community services.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Hamas - continuing Palestinian resistance, 18 Feb 2002

By	brendan@sssh.freeserve.co.uk (London) - See all my reviews

As Hamas has grown in influence within Palestinian society and has taken the lead in the organised physical resistance to the Israeli occupation, any book that is able to provide an objective analysis of the movement, its goals and tactics is to be much welcomed.
What emerges from this account is a fascinating picture of a complex organisation, which continues to operate in a much more adaptive and pragmatic manner than might be expected by those who see Hamas only as it commonly portrayed in the Western media - hardline, fundamentalist, uncompromising.

The reality is far more complex, as Mishal and Sela show. The details concerning Hamas's internal agonising over whether to participate in the Palestinian elections is an enthralling and detailed example of the different forces at play within Hamas and the sometimes conflicting agendas of the various parts of its leadership.

They also make clear that Hamas is primarily about nationalism and resistance to occupation, rather than a part of some global Islamic movement. Its struggle is strictly defined with the borders of Palestine and has no interest in wider Islamic issues.

What a pity therefore that such an interesting subject and one that the authors clearly know well, should be marred by such stilted and jargon ridden prose. The book clearly suffers from having been written buy two authors with quite different styles. The first and last thirds are fairly painful to read, while the middle section flows reasonably well and carries the reader along. One or both authors has something of an obsession with the use of the word "normative" and sprinkles it liberally throughout. Towards the end of the book I counted six successive paragraphs each of which contained the word, which shows both poor style and bad editing.

One curious aspect of the book is that the authors make little of the fact (although they don't dispute it either)that Israel originally encouraged and facilitated the development and growth of what became Hamas, in order to provide a counterweight to the PLO and to try and divide the Palestinians and thereby deny the PLO its claim to be the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. I was at BirZeit University (the leading Palestinian university in the Occupied Territories) when the Israelis helped bus in 'militants' from the Islamic University in Gaza who then attacked students who were aligned with Fatah and the PLO.

It's a startling irony that the Israelis now bombard the Palestinian Authority for failing to 'control' a resistance movement which Israel helped to create in the first place.

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