Summary
A Gaza-based Hamas leader named in Chapter 6 of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction as the current head of the movement’s political bureau, among the leaders who gave statements in early 2012 “in support of the Intifada of the Syrian people” as Hamas ended its balanced approach to Syria (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 1326-1347).
Details
- Hamas’s departure from Syria, completed by January 2012, is presented as inevitable because “it couldn’t afford the political cost of identifying with the practices of the regime towards its people” (lines 1330-1345).
Related pages
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, Jehad Abusalim