Hamas won an overwhelming electoral victory in January 2006, overturning many assumptions regionally and globally. Branded as terrorist by Israel and the West, it is the largest Palestinian militant Islamist organization, formed at the beginning of the first intifada. Its short-term...
revised and updated edition/"... a key resource in English for any serious assessment of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)/One must understand Hamas in order to understand the current state of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hamas: A History...