The Road to October 7: Hamas’ Long Game, Clarified
...Israeli siege imposed after Hamas great democratic win.”52 Arguing that youth are the most vital part of Palestinian society, Hamas claims “[t]he Islamic ideology adopted in Hamas summer...
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The Combat Performance of Hamas in the Gaza War of 2014
...to Hamas’ military infrastructure.[7] Hamas’ ground forces, notwithstanding their upgrades, were unable to prevent IDF ground operations. This article reviews Hamas’ preparations for battle, its offensive and defensive...
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Texts or Praxes: How Do We Best Understand Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad After October 7?
...of Hamas and PIJ. The following methodological discussion demonstrates that one obtains a greater understanding of both PIJ and Hamas by combining the two approaches as Hamas has...
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Self Inflicted Wounds
Self‐Inflicted Wounds: Debates and Divisions within al‐Qa’ida and its Periphery examines the internal, or endogenous, reasons that have hastened the decline of the jihadi movement. In doing so,...
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A Classical Analysis of the 2014 Israel-Hamas Conflict
...(the 2014 Israel-Hamas conflict). The operation’s declared end state was “restoring security to Israeli civilians living under Hamas rocket fire.”[3] After the discovery of increasing numbers of Hamas’s...
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Islamic State Affiliates Press Hamas
...Hamas, including one delivered in May after Hamas cracked down on the group, in which it gave Hamas 72 hours to release Salafi detainees.[37] In May, the group...
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Al-Qa`ida and Hamas
...By the end of 2007, after 12 separate statements criticizing Hamas, Usama bin Ladin announced that Hamas had “lost its religion,” a declaration that was mirrored in combat...
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The Beginning of a New Wave? The Hamas-Israel War and the Terror Threat in the West
...capital.36 Ideologically, Hamas is very different from even more extreme groups such as al-Qa`ida and the Islamic State.37 Besides substantial differences in their interpretation of creed, Hamas differs...
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