Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance -Conversation with Tareq Baconi

Professor Safwan Masri, Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development, Columbia University
in conversation with
Tareq Baconi, author of Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance and analyst for Israel/Palestine and Economics of Conflict at International Crisis Group
In this conversation, Tareq talked about his recent book, in which he focused on the situation in the Gaza Strip today, and discussed how Hamas has been used as a fig leaf by Israel to legitimate policies of separation and isolation of Gaza that long predate the movement. He discussed the post-Oslo era of the Palestinian national movement, and the growing recognition on the ground of the need to shift to a rights-based approach for individual and collective equality across the land of historic Palestine.