Crescent and sword: the Hamas enigma (Record no. 5450)

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Title Crescent and sword: the Hamas enigma
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2005
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Summary, etc. This article analyses the popular support for Hamas, the most important of the Palestinian Islamist movements today and charts the movement's historical ascendancy from a fringe Gaza-based group to a mainstream Islamist movement and mouthpiece for dispossessed Palestinians. Since 2001 Hamas' leadership has come under increasing attack from Israel, which has killed a number of the movement's leaders and senior members, most prominently Sheikh Yasin, the movement's founder and spiritual leaders, and his successor, Abd al-Aziz Rantissi. Nonetheless, Hamas' duality as 'worshippers' and 'warmongers' has made the organisation extraordinarily popular among dispossessed Palestinians and has created a mounting political challenge to the secular nationalism of the PLO. At present two-thirds of the Palestinians live below the 'poverty line' and it is likely that it is in this disenfranchised segment of the population that Hamas finds its core support. About one in every six Palestinians in the Occupied Territories benefits from support from Islamic charities. Hamas, for its part, allocates almost all its revenues to its social services, but there is no evidence that Hamas or the other Islamic charities provide assistance conditional upon political support.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element PALESTINE-HAMAS
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Middle East
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Main entry heading Third World Quarterly:
Related parts Vol. 26, No. 8, 2005, pp.1373-1388 (101)
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