Milton-Edwards and Farrell offer a clear-eyed account of Hamas’s development, from its early days in Gaza as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood during the first Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation, or intifada, in 1987 to its shocking attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. Dedicated to the proposition that “Islam is the solution,” it opposed the Oslo accords of the 1990s as selling out the Palestinian cause, and it became the first popularly elected Islamist party in the Arab world

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