Middle East: January 2003

Hamas and the Transformation(s) of Political Islam in Palestine

By: Sara Roy

Description: "While an Islamist alternative still remains unacceptable to most Palestinians, the Islamists, notably Hamas, increasingly have become a . . . part of the Palestinian political landscape; as such, they will need to be incorporated into-not marginalized from-any future political arrangement. Despite its militant extremism, the Islamist movement has shown that it can be pragmatic."

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