Review; JOURNAL OF PALESTINE STUDIES; RECENT BOOKS

[...]of Hamass Khaled Hroub is the author of Hamas: Political Thought and Practice (Institute for Palestine Studies, 2000) and Hamas: A Beginners Guide (Pluto Press, 2006). emergence, the banner of confrontation and resistance against Israeli occupation was rmly in the hands of the secular and leftist Palestinian factions under the umbrella of the PLO. [...]this process may have already begun before the rst intifada at the margins of the distinctive blocs (Islamist and secular), but without affecting the hard-core beliefs and orientations that formerly dened these blocs. According to Lybarger, this results in a two-way process: the Islamization 96 JOURNAL OF PALESTINE STUDIES of the secular-nationalist identity and mi-lieu and the secularization/nationalization of the Islamist identity and milieu. [...]Petras fails to provide references for numerous, rather astounding statements he makes throughout the workthe statements may be correct, but the authors sloppiness defeats his obviously political purpose.