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Gaza Under Hamas - From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance (Hardcover)
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Gaza Under Hamas - From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance (Hardcover)
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Hamas is designated a terrorist organization by Israel, the EU, the
USA and the UN. It has made itself notorious for its violent
radicalism and uncompromising rejection of the Jewish state. So
after its victory in the 2006 elections the world was watching. How
would Hamas govern? Could an Islamist group without any experience
of power - and with an unwavering ideology - manage to deal with
day-to-day realities on the ground? Bjorn Brenner investigates what
happened after the elections and puts the spotlight on the people
over whom Hamas rules, rather than on its ideas. Lodging with
Palestinian families and experiencing their daily encounters with
Hamas, he offers an intimate perspective of the group as seen
through local eyes. The book is based on hard-to-secure interviews
with a wide range of key political and security figures in the
Hamas administration, as well as with military commanders and
members of the feared Qassam Brigades. Brenner has also sought out
those that Hamas identifies as local trouble makers: the extreme
Salafi-Jihadis and members of the now more quiescent mainstream
Fatah party led by Mahmoud Abbas. The book provides a new
interpretation of one of the most powerful forces in the
Israel-Palestine arena, arguing that the Gazan Islamists carry a
potential to be much more flexible and pragmatic than anticipated -
if they would think they stand to gain from it. Gaza under Hamas
investigates the key challenges to Hamas's authority and reveals
why and in what ways ideology comes second to power consolidation.
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