31 Oct 2009 6:27 AM By Natasha Tynes



Palestinian journalist Zaki Chehab's Inside Hamas is reviewed in a New York Review of Books piece that covers three books about Hamas (the other two are Kill Khalid, by Paul McGeough, and Hamas in Politics, by Jeroen Gunning).

Excerpt:

Although Hamas itself is not yet a quarter-century old, it is important to recall that the earliest armed resistance to Zionist colonization was not nationalist, but rather pan-Islamist in inspiration. In his gossip- and fact-packed book Inside Hamas, Zaki Chehab, a pro-Fatah Palestinian journalist, reminds us that the namesake of Hamas's Qassam Brigades was, in fact, a Syrian who was educated at Cairo's al-Azhar University. When France occupied Syria in 1920, Ezzedine Qassam briefly led an armed cell, but soon fled to the safety of British-occupied Palestine. As a mosque preacher in Haifa he witnessed the surge in Jewish immigration that followed Hitler's rise, and began a clandestine campaign to arm Muslim fighters.

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