Hamas in Power

In: The Middle East journal, Band 61, Heft 3, S. 442-459

Abstract

This article challenges the static approach to Hamas as a simple fundamentalist organization by analyzing its political documents. It shows that Hamas' Islamist ideology has not prevented it from moving from fundamentalism to radicalism. Hamas has innovated ways of allowing its leaders
to declare or acquiesce in political positions that contradict its fundamentalist creed. Hamas accomplished this change in the course of a domestic debate. The international boycott of its government did not create the change — Hamas began to talk in two voices before winning the 2006
elections.