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Hamas and Suicide Terrorism - Multi-causal and Multi-level Approaches (Hardcover)
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Hamas and Suicide Terrorism - Multi-causal and Multi-level Approaches (Hardcover)
Series: LSE International Studies Series
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This book analyses the root causes of suicide terrorism at both the
elite and rank-and- file levels of the Hamas and also explains why
this tactic has disappeared in the post-2006 period. This volume
adopts a multi-causal, multi-level approach to analyse the use of
suicide bombings by Hamas and its individual operatives in the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It uses extensive fieldwork and
on-the-ground interviews in order to delve beneath the surface and
understand why and how suicide operations were adopted as a
sustained mechanism of engagement within the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. Three core factors fuelled Hamas's suicide bombing
campaigns. First, Palestinian suicide operations are a complex
combination of instrumental and expressive violence adopted by both
organisations and individuals to achieve political and/or societal
survival, retaliation and competition. In other words, suicide
bombings not only serve distinct political and strategic goals for
both Hamas and its operatives but they also serve to convey a
symbolic message to various audiences, within Israel, the
Palestinian territories and around the world. Second, suicide
operations perform a crucial role in the formation and
consolidation of Palestinian national identity and are also the
latest manifestation of the historically entrenched cultural norm
of militant heroic martyrdom. Finally, Hamas's use of political
Islam also facilitates the articulation, justification and
legitimisation of suicide operations as a modern-day jihad against
Israel through the means of modern interpretations and fatwas. This
approach not only facilitates a much needed, multifaceted, holistic
understanding of suicide bombings in this particular region but
also yields policy-relevant lessons to address extreme political
violence in other parts of the world. This book will be of much
interest to students of Hamas, terrorism, Middle East politics and
security studies.
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