Dear friends and colleagues,
Please see my article "Hamas in Dire Straits" published in
Perspectives on Terrorism, Vol. VII, Issue 5 (October 2013) at http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/294.
This Research Note analyses Hamas's standing after
it deserted the "Axis of Resistance" and Damascus, positioning itself in
the Sunni coalition against the Assad regime in Syria. The unfulfilled
promises of the short Muslim Brotherhood
reign in Egypt and the enmity of the new military regime in Cairo have
seriously hurt Hamas's political, economic and military interests in the
Gaza Strip and isolated it regionally. Hamas leaders lately began
negotiations to mend fences with Iran, its former
sponsor and its Lebanese ally, Hezbollah. The situation endangers
Hamas's internal cohesion, can push it to a violent outburst against
Israel or in support of the embattled Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
However, it also possibly offers a window of opportunity
to exploit its weakness, Egypt's good will and Tehran's present
restraint in order to advance the laborious Israeli-Palestinian peace
negotiations.
To my Spanish readers: this is the full academic version on which was based my article "Hamas in apuros" published by El Imparcial, Oct 24, 2013.
Kind regards,
Ely Karmon, PhD
Senior Research Scholar
International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) and
The Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS) at
The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC(
Herzlyia, Israel
Tel.: 972-9-9527277
Cell.: 972-52-2653306
Fax.: 972-9-9513073, 972-9-7716653
E-mail:
ekarmon@idc.ac.il
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