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Comment: Hamas and peace in West Asia.

  • UPSC 1996
  • 20 marks
  • Changing International Political Order

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Hamas (Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya, the Islamic Resistance Movement) was founded in Gaza in December 1987, at the outbreak of the first intifada, by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Its 1988 Charter rejected Israel's existence and any negotiated settlement. In 1996 the question was whether it could wreck the Oslo process.…

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  • Ideology and organisation
  • Hamas as spoiler: the 1996 context
  • From spoiler to governing actor
  • Can peace come with or without Hamas?
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