Understanding Hamas

Military Review, Sept-Oct, 2004 by Chong Yee Ming

Ms Chong Yee Ming, Librarian, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore--I refer to Lieutenant Commander Youssef H. Aboul-Enein's Review Essay, "Hamas: Understanding the Organization," published in the July-August 2003 Military Review. While arguing the righteousness of the Islamist cause of liberating Palestine, it is important to understand Hamas's inner workings.

Heavily modeled on the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas has created community services while maintaining military wings that carry out suicide bombings.