The Hamas Earthquake

The Hamas Moment

But the effect of any deal made by Hamas will not be new and radical for Hamas.

Did Hamas Win?

Hamas Rising

Hamas in Power

Hamas s Real Enemies

Hamas Takes on the Radicals

Hamas won.

The Hamas Veto

What Hamas Wants

Hamas, Fatah, and the Palestinian Dilemma

Hamas s Ghost in Annapolis

Hamas s Zero Sum Game

Will Hamas Win the Peace?

Hamas and Fatah at the Crossroads

Reconciling Hamas and Fatah

Hamas s political moment has come.

In fact, Hamas, too, is playing a double game.

What s the strike about?

Seven Hamas militants were killed.

But Hamas is not alone in Gaza.

Hamas has, in the past, cooperated with some of the Salafis, assuming they would stand behind Hamas s leadership.

After all, it is not Hamas as a party that is objectionable what is objectionable are the politics and policies which Hamas pursues.

As to the reason for the failure of the Cairo talks, Israel accuses Hamas of terrorism while Hamas accused Israel of failing to uphold its own promised commitments.

Can Hamas Stay in Power?

No one should underestimate Hamas s extremism.

Meanwhile, Hamas bides its time.

Why are the experts so excitingly promoting predicting failure??

The high esteem in which Palestinians hold Hamas also grew out of what Hamas actually did for them while the PA squandered its resources.

Once masters of the situation, it is said, the zeal of those who promised reform mutated into a zeal to preserve their private wealth and that of their friends.

We have nothing against Hamas we are against their belligerent policies, which service in government has not changed.

This is why this new particle accelerator is so exciting.

Chirac vociferously opposed the war in Iraq.

Today Hamas has begun to think about what happens after a deal.

The terrorist organization Hamas claimed responsibility for that attack.

Although Hamas is boycotting the election, many Hamas sympathizers will vote for the candidate most committed to defending the Palestinians core demands.

The rocket attacks against Israeli territory are a transparent attempt to divert attention and rally the masses around Hamas as the true champions of the Palestinian cause.

Having benefited from overwhelming political rejection of Fatah, Hamas will now be judged by how it uses its new authority.

No one should underestimate Hamas s extremism. Indeed, the only difference between Hamas and al Qaeda though the two groups do not generally work together is that the latter emphasizes attacks on Western targets, while the former has until now focused on Israel.

But Fatah has not accepted defeat, while Hamas is convinced that elements within Fatah agree with Israeli and American plans to topple the Hamas government.

My father last night tried to communicate a single message We keep hearing that Israel is after Hamas but WE are the targets here Civilians are the targets here, not Hamas.

Signs of Hamas s shifting perspective are becoming increasingly apparent.

Recent events appear to have emboldened Hamas.

Indeed, Hamas s moment of triumph is part of a growing regional pattern.