Abstract: This is a book that provides a detailed account of the Islamic Resistance Movement in Palestine – better known as Hamas – from a Hamas perspective. Azzam Tamimi argues that Hamas is an organization of Arabs and Muslims who happen to be Palestinian, victims of a Jewish state in the very heart of Arab and Muslim lands. Israel is their oppressor who has deprived them of their land and persecuted them for generations. Although the struggle against Israel is top on Hamas’s agenda, it is by no means its only raison d’etre...
