Status Updates From Hamas Contained: The Rise a...

Breaking through the hasbara caricature of Hamas as a Islamist death cult hell-bent on the destruction and murder of international Jewry, Baconi gives readers an understanding of the ideology behind Hamas and the evolution of its strategies of resistance.

Too often, people either demonize Hamas as a cartoonish evil or praise them as heroic freedom fighters. Baconi offers a fact-based understanding of Hamas

Elections!

The Gaza war of 2008 was barely a war and more of a humanitarian crisis

A ceasefire is implemented for the sake of not causing a humanitarian crisis for Gaza

It was an attempted coup the entire time!

The continued politics of Hamas becoming the forefront of Palestinian rule while dealing with a sort of coup from opposing parties

The continued politics of Hamas becoming the forefront of Palestinian rule while dealing with a sort of coup from opposing parties

The continued struggle to legitimize Hamas as a contender in Palestinian government

The rise of Hamas as a legit political presence within the Palestinian government is a fascinating read when considering the obstacles and oblique circumstances that they endure

The Hamas’s complicated history is only because of the blatant aggression from Israel’s prime minister Sharon who fails to de escalate and instead prompts to dehumanize the Palestinian people

Learning about the upheaval and standoffs between the colonialist and the people of Palestine, very interesting and informative so far

Read the foreword and going into he origins of Hamas, an easy and informative read so far