Review
Comprehensive book that does an honest attempt at providing complex answers to who HAMAS is, how it has evolved and continues to evolve since the inception.
This is a journalistic masterpiece relating events, testimonies, and policies that help the reader form a realistic depiction of the messy and complex nature of the resistance movement.
The author shed light on intentions of all parties involved, internal AND especially external (e.g patrons, alliances, suppliers).
After reading this book you’ll have a more accurate understanding of the powers at play in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Quote from Israeli historian and HAMAS expert Henry Siegman page 402:
“It is too easy to describe HAMAS simply as a terror organization. It is a religious nationalist movement that resorts to terrorism, as the Zionist movement did during its struggle for statehood, in the mistaken belief that it is the only way to end an oppressive occupation and bring about a Palestinian state.”