| Description |
1 online resource (ii, 48 pages) : color maps (digital, PDF file) |
| Series |
Middle East report ; no. 129 |
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ICG Middle East report ; no. 129.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Two sides of the Arab uprisings -- Inside Hamas -- Conclusion : Hamas's future |
| Summary |
Hamas never has faced such large challenges and opportunities as presented by the Arab uprisings. It abandoned its headquarters in Damascus, at much cost to ties with its largest state supporter, Iran, while improving those with such U.S. allies as Egypt, Qatar and Turkey. Asked to pick sides in an escalating regional contest, it has sought to choose neither. Internal tensions are at new heights, centring on how to respond to regional changes in the short run. Leaders in the West Bank and exile tend to believe that with the rise to power of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in particular and the West's rapprochement with Islamists in general, it is time for bolder steps toward Palestinian unity, thereby facilitating Hamas's regional and wider international integration. The Gaza leadership by contrast is wary of large strategic steps amid a still uncertain regional future. These new dynamics -- Islamists' regional ascent; shifting U.S. and EU postures toward them; vacillation within their Palestinian offshoot -- offer both Hamas and the West opportunities. But seizing them will take far greater pragmatism and realism than either has yet shown |
| Notes |
"14 August 2012." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ICG, viewed September 13, 2012) |
| Subject |
Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmīyah
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| SUBJECT |
Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmīyah. fast (OCoLC)fst00654141 |
| Subject |
Arab Spring, 2010-
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Arab countries -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Arab countries.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
International Crisis Group.
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