May 12, 2006

Hamas's Muddied Waters

By MATTHEW LEVITT

How does Hamas, a militant Islamist group in a relatively secular society fatigued by conflict, attract and retain its base of operatives and supporters? How does it radicalize, recruit, and dispatch Palestinian suicide bombers and still woo Palestinian voters to vote it into power as the ruling political party? While it may be the case that Hamas's victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections in January was in large part a protest vote against the septuagenarian kleptocrats of Yasir

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