A review by salesforce
Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance by Tareq Baconi

challenging informative medium-paced

There's a number of arguments advanced in this book that I'm still parsing, but outside of the current context, I think it's particularly interesting to read alongside the recent NYT interviews of Taliban officials and women's rights (Oct 2024), with reflections on the internal hardline/moderate political heterogeneity of non-state actors. This is not to say Hamas is not guilty of the crimes they commit (and Baconi posits a number of critiques), but rather that focusing analysis solely on that tends to miss other salient points, such as the larger context in which Hamas was created and operates. I'd say that Baconi's definitely in the vein of academics who are trying to move past the idea of 'terrorism' because of the definition's many problems.