Is Hamas Winning?

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. As quoted in Azzam Tamimi, Hamas: A History from Within, (Olive Branch Press, 2007), pg. 189. 2. R. Kim Cragin, “Palestinian Resistance Through the Eyes of Hamas,” (Ph.D dissertation, Clare College, Cambridge, 2008), p. 114. For information on what Hamas claims is its first attack, see Robert Kook, “Israel Returns to Deportation Policy for Arabs,” United Press International, December 16, 1990, and Ghassan Charbel, “The Khaled Mishaal Interviews,” Dar al Hayat, December 5, 2003. 3. Sara Roy, “Changing Political Attitudes among Gaza Refugees,” Journal of Palestine Studies 19, no. 1 (1989): 77, http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2537246?uid=3739584&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=2110230823718. 4. Zaki Chehab, Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement, (New York: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2007), 43. 5. 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Amira Hass, “Palestinian Poll: Hamas' Haniyah Would Win PA Presidency Over Abbas,” Haaretz, December 17, 2012, http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/palestinian-poll-hamas-haniyeh-would-win-pa-presidency-over-abbas.premium-1.485429. 27. “Joint Israeli Palestinian Poll,” press release, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, December 26, 2012, http://www.pcpsr.org/survey/polls/2012/p46ejoint.html. Additional informationNotes on contributorsDaniel BymanDaniel Byman is a professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service and the research director of the Saban Center at Brookings. He is also the author of A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)