By Azzam Tamimi

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. Its short-term objective is to drive Israeli forces from the West Bank and Gaza, an aim it hopes to realise through attacks on Israeli troops and settlers in the Occupied Territories and-more controversially--n civilians. It also has the long-term aim of establishing an Islamic state on all of historic Palestine. In the post-Oslo world, Hamas gained power and influence as Israel steadily destroyed the power structure of the avowedly secular Yasser Arafat and his Palestinian Authority.

Published Date: 22/11/2006 Format: PaperBack ISBN: 1-85065-834-x Publisher: Hurst Rating: Retail price: Pound £ 12.95 (Rs. 1,617.58) Our price: Rs. 1,795.00 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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