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Jul 2024
14m 13s

Hamas Part I - Rise to Power: Kalam Shor...

Edgar Mannheimer
About this episode

What is Hamas? Depending on who you ask, a resistance group or a terrorist organisation. For the people of Gaza, oftentimes, authoritarian thugs.

This is part one of a three part Kalam Shorts series on Hamas - on their founding as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood in the 60's and 70's, and their rise to power in the aftermath of the failure of the Oslo Process.

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