COVER; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Maps; 1 We Deal with Allah Directly; 2 In the Path of al-Qassam; 3 Sowing; 4 The First Intifada; 5 Oslo and 'Vain Endeavours'; 6 The Second Intifada; 7 The Qassam Brigades; 8 The Martyr Syndrome; 9 Harvesting; 10 Women; 11 A House Divided; 12 Bullet and Ballot; 13 Hamastan; 14 Inferno; Chronology; Notes; Index
Summary
Declared a terrorist menace yet elected to government in a free election, Hamas now stands as the most important Sunni Islamist group in the Middle East. How did Hamas grow to be so powerful? Who supports it? What is its future? This essential insight into Hamas answers these questions. Milton-Edwards and Farrell have between them spent decades researching and reporting from the heartlands of the Hamas movement and gained unrivalled access to the world of Islamic resistance and radical Islam in its potent Palestinian form. Drawing on their frontline experiences of recent events,
