Insight with Azzam Tamimi - Hamas – Terrorists or Politicians?

The founder of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought in London, Azzam Tamimi, talks about Hamas – the largest Palestinian militant Islamist organisation, branded as terrorists by Israel and the West.

The founder of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought in London, Azzam Tamimi, talks about Hamas – the largest Palestinian militant Islamist organisation, branded as terrorists by Israel and the West.

Hamas was formed 15 years ago with a short-term objective of driving Israeli forces from the West Bank and Gaza and a long-time goal of establishing an Islamic state on all of historic Palestine.

But their tactics are controversial. On the one hand they use their military branch for attacking Israeli troops, settlers and civilians in the Occupied Territories and the mainland Israel. Meanwhile their humanitarian wing establishes schools, hospitals and religious institutions.

Tamimi talks about Hamas’ origins, political objectives and details the influence of its exiled leadership in Syria.

Azzam Tamimi is the founder of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought in London and author of Rachid Ghannouchi: a Democrat Within Islamism and Hamas: Unwritten History.

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