Illusions of Containment
Tom Stevenson: Versions of Hamas, 6 February 2025
Hamas: The Quest for Power
by Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell.
Polity, 331 pp., £17.99, June 2024,978 1 5095 6493 4 Show More
by Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell.
Polity, 331 pp., £17.99, June 2024,
“... tenure lasted just a month before he too was assassinated. Mishal, born in the year of the Suez Crisis, was the first Hamas leader to live, as a precaution, outside the occupied territories. From Amman, Doha and Damascus, he led Hamas to a resounding victory in the 2006 Palestinian elections. In 2017 he was succeeded by Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar, both ... ”