A Review of: “Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine. By Jonathan Schanzer.”

"A Review of: “Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine. By Jonathan Schanzer.”." , 1(1), pp. 145–146

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¹“Problems of War and Strategy,” in Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung (Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1965), 2:224.

²The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement, art. 5 (1988), http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp.

³Fatah, for example, has always refused to “recognize” the existence of Israel as a Jewish state and to renounce the “right of return.” See “Abbas in Briefing to Jordanian Daily Al-Dustour: I Am Against the Armed Struggle—But In Future Stages Things May Change,” The Middle East Media Research Institute, March 6, 2008, http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD186108; Khaled Abu Toameh and Haviv Rettig Gur, “Abbas Says He Won't Meet Netanyahu,” Jerusalem Post, July 12, 2009.

⁴According to article 4(1) of the Charter of the United Nations, “[m]embership in the United Nations is open to all other peace-loving states which accept the obligations contained in the present Charter and, in the judgment of the Organization, are able and willing to carry out these obligations.”

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Robert P. Barnidge

Robert P. Barnidge, JR., is a lecturer at the School of Law of the University of Reading, England and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Middle East and Africa.