Hamas
Will Palestinian Reconciliation Lead to a Hamas Takeover of the PLO? by Jonathan D. Halevi, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Viewpoints No. 587, January-February 2012
Hamas leader Haniyeh: Goal is destruction of Israel in stages; Abbas: Hamas agrees to ’67 borders by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, December 27, 2011 (see also: Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya Reaffirms Hamas’ Commitment to Armed Resistance and Says: We Will Liberate Palestine in Its Entirety, from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River, Middle East Media Research Institute, MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 4393, December 29, 2011)
Hamas’ Dilemma, an Interview with Hussein Ibish, Israel Policy Center, The Pulse, December 23, 2011
Hamas For Sale? by Jonathan Schanzer, Weekly Standard Online, December 21, 2011
Hard Choices for Hamas with the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood by Pinhas Inbari, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 11, No. 21, December 9, 2011
Hamas is abandoning the sinking ship of Syria and many senior cadres have already settled in Gaza. At the same time, Iran has cut its subsidy to Hamas. Not only is there a need to find new accommodations for Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal and company, but there is also a political price: the need to decrease terror and transform itself from a pro-Iranian/Syrian “muqawama” (“resistance”) movement into a typical political party of the Muslim Brotherhood-type that are now in the process of taking control in the Arab world.
Hamas at a Crossroads by Meir Litvak, inFocus Quarterly, Fall 2011
Poll: Palestinians Reject Hamas, The Israel Project, November 28, 2011
Ten Facts about the Palestinian Terror Group Hamas, The Israel Project, November 23, 2011
The Hamas Factor by Samara Greenberg, American Thinker, October 19, 2011
Why Hamas is losing Gaza by Karl Vick, Time, October 17, 2011
Besieged by Israel and the West, which regards it as a terrorist group, and cut off from the Palestinian majority in the West Bank, Hamas has little to offer beyond its jihadist credentials — and the promise of clean government. So it’s hardly surprising that the party has been rapidly losing ground in its stronghold. Recent surveys by leading pollsters conclude that if elections were held in Gaza today, Hamas, an acronym in Arabic for the Islamic Resistance Movement, would not be returned to power. A June poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that Hamas would get just 28% of the vote, a steep decline from the 44% plurality it won in 2006.
Hamas’s Gaza – Four Years Later by C. Jacob, Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
- Chapter 1: Fatah-Hamas Relations, Inquiry and Analysis Series Report No. 710, July 20, 2011
- Chapter 2: Hamas’s Military Conduct vis-à-vis Israel, Inquiry and Analysis Series Report No. 712, July 20, 2011
- Chapter 3: Hamas’s Administration of Gaza, Inquiry and Analysis Series Report No. 714, July 22, 2011
Power Dynamics Inside Hamas: The Increasing Weight of the Gaza Leadership by Jonathan D. Halevi, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem issue Brief Vol. 11, No. 4, June 16, 2011
Hamas accepts 1967 borders, but will never recognize Israel, top official says, Haaretz, May 11, 2011
Speaking to Palestinian news agency Ma’an, Mahmoud Zahar says recognition of Israel would deprive future Palestinian generations of the possibility to ‘liberate’ their lands.
Hamas Has No Reason to Reconcile by Samara Greenberg, Jewish Policy Center, March 16, 2011
Talking to Hamas? – Increasing Expressions of Genocidal Intent by Hamas Leaders Against the Jews by Jonathan D. Halevi, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 10, No. 19, January 3, 2011
Finally, a Hamas Leader Admits That Israel Killed Mostly Combatants In Gaza by Alan Dershowitz, Huffington Post, December 17, 2010
Hamas founder’s son worked for Shin Bet for years by Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz, February 22, 2010
The Hamas Conundrum by Michael Herzog, Foreign Affairs, February 8, 2010
Dr. Kifah Al-Ramali on Hamas TV: The Real Palestinian Beauty Queen Is the Jihad-Fighting Mother, Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), January 12, 2010
Hamas’ Line of Defence to Goldstone Report by Jonathan Dahohah Halevi, ShalomLine.com, February 2, 2010
Hamas commander: Israel will disappear by Roee Nahmias, Ynetnews.com, December 25, 2010
Hamas video: Allah, kill Christians and Jews “to the last one” by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook. Palestinian Media Watch, December 8, 2010
Hamas Returns to Executing Opponents, UN Returns to Boosting Hamas Aid by Omri Ceren, Commentary, December 8, 2010
Hamas Finally Admits Most Gaza Fatalities Were Combatants, Not Civilians by Evelyn Gordon, Commentary, November 1, 2010
Hamas Divided: Time for a New Policy? by Tally Helfont, Foreign Policy Research Institute E-Notes, October 2010
Hamas’ vaunted ideological, organizational, and strategic unity seems a thing of the past. [....] [T]he group has been advancing multiple, and often competing strategies simultaneously.
Hamas is a threat to the Palestinian cause by Richard Cohen, Washington Post, June 29, 2010
Resistance and Rockets: Hamas Targeting of Israeli Civilians by Jeffrey White, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, PolicyWatch #1635, February 25, 2010
The Expansion of Al-Qaeda-Affiliated Jihadi Groups in Gaza: Diplomatic Implications, by Dore Gold, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vo. 9, No. 17, January 4, 2010
Hamas in Combat: The Military Performance of the Palestininan Resistance Movement, by Yoram Cohen and Jeffrey White [pdf], Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Focus #97, October 2009
The Palestinians’ Spoiler by David Makovsky, Haaretz, October 23, 2009
Why Hamas Has Been Quiet in 2009 by Aaron Mannes and V.S. Subrahmanian, Palestinian Rocket Report, September 15, 2009
The Truth About Hamas Crimes in Gaza, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, January 30, 2009 [includes videos]
“Palestinian Support for Hamas Has Not Decined” – Part II, The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, JINSA Report #850, January 27, 2009
“Palestinian Support for Hamas Has Not Declined” – Part I, The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, JINSA Report #849, January 26, 2009
Marching for Hamas by Denis MacEoin. Jerusalem Post, January 22, 2009
The No-State Solution: Hamas cares more about Shariah than ‘Palestine’ by Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal, January 13, 2009
Hamas is a War Crimes “Case Study” by Haviv Rettig, Jerusalem Post, January 12, 2009
Efraim Karsh: What’s Behind Western Condemnation of Israel’s War Against Hamas?, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 8, No. 17, January 12, 2009
Iranian Support of Hamas, Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC), January 12, 2009
Muslims Against Hamas, Wall Street Journal, January 10, 2009
Liberate the Palestinians from Hamas by Bernard-Henry Levy, The New Republic, January 9, 2009
No way forward while the Hamas hydra lives by Amir Taheri, The Times [UK], January 9, 2009
How Liberals Arrive at “We Are Hamas” by Josh Strawn, Jewcy.com, January 8, 2009
The criminal cynicism of Hamas by Alan Dershowitz, The Guardian, January 8, 2009
Those who protest civilian deaths apply a double standard that blames only Israel, when the true responsibility lies with Hamas
Hamas Exploitation of Civilians as Human Shields, Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC), January 6, 2009 [also available as pdf]
Background Brief on Hamas #1: Extermination of Jews by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, Palestinian Media Watch, January 4, 2009
Hamas Exploitation of Civilians as Human Shields [pdf], Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC), January 2009
Hamas is a Taliban State by Martin Peretz. The New Republic, December 31, 2008 [why a cease-fire between Jerusalem and the regime in Gaza will never hold]
Under the Microscope? The Palestinian Commission of Inquiry into the Hamas Takeover of Gaza by Amir Kulick, Institute for National Security Studies Strategic Assessment, June 2008, Vol. 11, No. 1
Miscalculation: How Hamas wastes Palestinian lives by Ziad Asali, Washington Times, June 18, 2008
Hamas takes belated responsibility for militant attacks in Israel: web site, International Herald Tribune, June 7, 2008
Hamas not a dialogue partner by Dov Weisglass, Ynetnews.com, May 4, 2008
Column One: Whitewashing Hamas by Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post, May 1, 2008
The Diplomatic Dance with Hamas by Prof. Efraim Karsh, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Briefs, Vol. 7, No. 37, April 30, 2008
“Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, sees the struggle for Palestine as neither an ordinary political dispute between two contending nations (Israelis and Palestinians), nor even as a struggle for national self-determination by an indigenous population against a foreign occupier. Rather, it sees Palestine as but one battle in a worldwide holy war to prevent the fall of a part of the House of Islam to infidels.”
Engaging with Evil: Is Dialogue with Hamas Worth Having?, American Jewish Committee Weekly Briefing on Israeli and Middle Eastern Affairs, April 2008
Mr. Zahar and Mr. Carter, The Washington Post, April 17, 2008
Carter’s Planned Hamas Meeting Draws Boos by Nathan Guttman, Forward, April 10, 2008
In Gaza, Hamas’s Insults to Jews Complicate Peace by Steve Erlanger, New York Times, April 1, 2007
Resources
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Hamas Background: History & Leadership Middle East Progress (The Center for American Progress Project), May 2, 2008
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Hamas Fast Facts booklet, The David Project, February 2010
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Hamas Covenant: (1988): The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement, The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
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The Hamas terror war against Israel: Statistics on rocket and mortar attacks from Gaza, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Hamas War Crimes, StandWithUs (PDF flyer)
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Hamas: Know the Facts (video)
