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This book examines the political development and transformation of Hamas from a resistance movement into a political authority in the Gaza Strip, as a result of the group's victory in the Palestinian national elections of 2006. From a political science and conflict transformation perspective, it focuses on the political opportunities, challenges and process of environmental and structural change which led the resistance movement to evolve from an underground militant group to a force in conventional politics. This study offers an analysis of Hamas' formation, development, political and strateg

Palestinian Arabs --- Islam and politics --- Politics and government. --- Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmīyah. --- Mouvement de la résistance islamique --- Islamic Resistance Movement --- Ḥamās --- Ḥarakat Ḥamās --- חמאס --- חמ״ס --- حركات التحرير --- حركة المقاومة الإسلامية --- حماس --- حركة حماس --- Islamic Resistance Organization --- Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya --- Gaza Strip

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How does a group that operates terror cells and espouses violence become a ruling political party? Can a single organization be committed to political activism and charitable good works while simultaneously dispatching suicide bombers to attack civilian targets? How is the world to understand and respond to Hamas, the militant Islamist organization that Palestinian voters brought to power in the stunning election of January 2006? This important book provides the most complete and fully documented assessment of Hamas ever written. Matthew Levitt, a counterterrorism expert with extensive field experience in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, draws aside the veil of legitimacy that Hamas hides behind. He presents concrete, detailed evidence from an extensive array of international intelligence materials, including recently declassified CIA, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security reports. In the book, Levitt demolishes what he terms the myth of disparate wings in Hamas. The notion that the organization's military, political, and social 'wings' are distinct from one another is belied by ample evidence.In fact, the records show, Hamas meets in the mosques and hospitals it maintains to plan its terror attacks, buries caches of arms and explosives under its own schoolyard playgrounds, and transfers and launders funds for terrorist activity through local charity committees. This book catalogues the alarming extent to which the group's political and social welfare leaders support terrorism. Drawing a portrait of unprecedented accuracy, Matthew Levitt exposes the real Hamas: an organization that threatens peace and security far beyond the borders of the West Bank and Gaza. Levitt urges the international community to take heed, and he offers well-considered ideas for countering the threat Hamas poses.

Daʻwah (Islam) --- Suicide bombings --- Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmīyah. --- Dakwah (Islam) --- Dawa (Islam) --- Evangelistic work (Islam) --- Islam --- Proselytizing --- Evangelistic work --- Mouvement de la résistance islamique --- Islamic Resistance Movement --- Ḥamās --- Ḥarakat Ḥamās --- חמאס --- חמ״ס --- حركات التحرير --- حركة المقاومة الإسلامية --- حماس --- حركة حماس --- Islamic Resistance Organization --- Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya --- Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmīyah --- Suicide bombingsḤarakat al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmīyah --- Bombings --- Suicide --- Missions --- Suicide bombings - Israel

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Berti's innovative framework and careful choice of case studies, presented in a jargon-free, accessible style, will make this book attractive to not only scholars and students of democratization processes but policymakers interested in conflict resolution and peacekeeping efforts.

Political violence. --- Violence --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Irish Republican Army. --- Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmīyah. --- Hizballah (Lebanon) --- Irish Volunteers --- Provisional IRA --- Armata repubblicana irlandese --- Armée républicaine irlandaise --- I.R.A. --- IRA --- Official IRA --- Oglaig na h-Éireann --- Mouvement de la résistance islamique --- Islamic Resistance Movement --- Ḥamās --- Ḥarakat Ḥamās --- חמאס --- חמ״ס --- حركات التحرير --- حركة المقاومة الإسلامية --- حماس --- حركة حماس --- Islamic Resistance Organization --- Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya --- Ḥizb Allāh (Lebanon) --- Hezbollah (Lebanon) --- Hizbollah (Lebanon) --- Mifleget ha-El (Lebanon) --- Hizbullah (Lebanon) --- Hezbullah (Lebanon) --- חזבאללה --- חיזבאללה --- حزب الله --- حزب الله (لبنان) --- حزب الله (Lebanon) --- Hezballah (Lebanon)

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The ideology of Islamic fundamentalists is of central importance in the modern world, but it is often distorted or misunderstood by the international media. This insightful study provides a detailed analysis of the Palestinian Hamas movement's world-view, and shows how the theoretical framework developed by thinkers such as Hassan al-Banna, Sayyis Qutb and al-Mawdudi is applied to a specific political, social and economic context. Nusse explains the fundamentalist position on recent events, such as the Gulf War, the Madrid peace negotiations and the Hebron massacre, and helps to dissipate myth

Fondamentalisme musulman --- Fundamentalism [Islamic ] --- Fundamentalisme [Islamitisch ] --- Integralisme [Islamitisch ] --- Integrisme [Islamitisch ] --- Intégrisme islamique --- Intégrisme islamique -- Aspect politique --- Intégrisme musulman --- Islamic fundamentalism --- Islamic integralism --- Islamism --- Islamisme --- Islamisme politique --- Islamisme radical --- Islamistes --- Islamitisch fundamentalisme --- Islamitisch integralisme --- Islamitisch integrisme --- Israelisch-Arabische betrekkingen --- Jewish-Arab relations --- Mouvements islamistes --- Relations israélo-arabes --- Islam --- National movements --- Palestine --- Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah --- Ideology --- Religious aspects --- Politics and government --- Islam and politics --- Palestinian Arabs --- Arab-Israeli conflict. --- Israel-Arab conflicts --- Israel-Palestine conflict --- Israeli-Arab conflict --- Israeli-Palestinian conflict --- Palestine-Israel conflict --- Palestine problem (1948- ) --- Palestinian-Israeli conflict --- Fundamentalism, Islamic --- Religious fundamentalism --- Islam. --- History --- Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmīyah. --- Mouvement de la résistance islamique --- Islamic Resistance Movement --- Ḥamās --- Ḥarakat Ḥamās --- חמאס --- חמ״ס --- حركات التحرير --- حركة المقاومة الإسلامية --- حماس --- حركة حماس --- Islamic Resistance Organization --- Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya --- Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyah.

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Lightning through the Clouds is the first English-language life-and-times biography of ‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam, a preeminent figure who helped to reshape the political and religious landscape of the region. A Syrian-born, Egyptian-educated cleric, he went from the battlefields of World War I to join the anticolonialist fight against the French in Syria. Sentenced to be executed by the French military, he managed to escape to Palestine, where he became an increasingly popular presence, moved by the plight of the poor and disenfranchised. Outraged by British rule and the encroachment of Zionism, he formed a secret society to resist the colonization of Palestine first by the British and then by Jewish immigrants from Europe, once again taking up arms and advocating for a moral, political, and military jihad as the only solution. His death at the hands of Palestine Police in 1935 drew thousands to his funeral and sparked the 1936–1939 Arab Revolt.His influence continues to be felt in the region; for example, the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas organization is named the ‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Al-Qassam is either revered or reviled, depending on the observers'perspective, but he is without doubt a fascinating and historically significant individual whose influence on the past, and our present, makes this examination of his life both important and timely.

E-books --- Revolutionaries --- Palestinian Arabs --- Qassām, ʻIzz al-Dīn. --- Palestine --- History --- Revolutionists --- Dissenters --- Counterrevolutionaries --- Alḳasam, ʻIz Aldin --- قسام، عز الدين --- Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmīyah. --- Katāʼib ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Qassām. --- Mouvement de la résistance islamique --- Islamic Resistance Movement --- Ḥamās --- Ḥarakat Ḥamās --- חמאס --- חמ״ס --- حركات التحرير --- حركة المقاومة الإسلامية --- حماس --- حركة حماس --- Islamic Resistance Organization --- Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya --- Izz al-Din al-Qassem Brigades --- Hamas-Izz al-Din al-Qassem Brigades --- Briged al-Qassam --- Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades --- Qassam Brigades --- Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigade --- Katāʼib al-Shahīd ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Qassām --- Katāʼib al-Qassām --- كتائب عز الدين القسام --- حركة المقاومة الاسلامية. --- كتائب الشهيد عز الدين القسام --- كتائب القسام --- 1917-1948