Hamas

Unwritten Chapters

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 organisation, formed fifteen years ago at the beginning of the first intifada. A grass-roots organisation that commands wide respect among Palestinians for its incorruptibility, Hamas is divided into two main sections, one responsible for establishing schools, hospitals and religious institutions, the other for military action and terror attacks carried out by its armed underground wing the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades. This book charts the origins of Hamas among the Muslim Brotherhood, details the influence of its exiled leadership in Syria and elsewhere, and sets out its internal structure and political objectives. This new edition includes an additional chapter covering events since the books original publication in November 2006.

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225, 226, 232, 234, 242, 321, 329, 331, 333, 340 Pollard, Jonathan 335 Popular
Resistance Committees (PRC) 233,239, 241 Powell, Colin 203 Premadasa, Sir
Lankan President Ranasinghe 163 Prince Abdullah of Jordan 124 Prince
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia 112, 116 Prince Bandar ibn Sultan 256, 259 Prior,
Michael 343 Prisoners' Document 236-238,240–242 Prophet Muhammad 41,
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