Muslim Brotherhood Files

On Mukammilin Channel, 14.4.2017 On the election of a new Hamas leadership and the Hamas charter A Hamas remake? #Occupation Azzam Tamimi Wednesday 19 April 2017 10:59 UTC Topics: Occupation Tags:  Hamas , Hamas Charter , Khaled Meshaal , Gaza Strip , West Bank Show comments As the Palestinian movement works to elect a leader to replace Khaled Meshaal, its new charter is clearer about what the movements stands for During the past 10 years, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) was the target of three major wars launched by Israel to destroy its military capabilities. Israel’s peace partner, the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority, sought more than just that: it wanted the movement dislodged from the Gaza Strip altogether so as to regain control of this enclave lost to Hamas in June 2007. In my opinion, the 1988 Hamas Charter was a badly writt...

  George Fahmi discusses how the MB old guard successfully managed to avert a turn to violence in the first half of 2015. Why Aren’t More Muslim Brothers Turning to Violence? | Chatham House After the 2013 military intervention against the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, many voices warned that the Brotherhood would shift its tactics to include the use of violence. However, only a minority within the Brotherhood has decided to take up arms. While most policy attention focuses on the causes of radicalization, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt raises an equally important question: why, despite the measures adopted by the regime since 2013 against the Muslim Brotherhood, has only a small minority turned to violence? The answer is threefold: the position of the leadership, a recognition of the costs of violence and the Brotherhood’s idea of itself as non-violent. The removal of President Mohammed Morsi, a Brotherhood figure, from power in July 2013 and the ensu...