{"id":3922,"date":"2014-08-02T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-03-21T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T11:43:32","slug":"epalestine-lrb-hamass-chances-by-nathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2014\/08\/epalestine-lrb-hamass-chances-by-nathan\/","title":{"rendered":"LRB: Hamas\u2019s Chances (by Nathan Thrall) – A MUST READ"},"content":{"rendered":"

A really solid and comprehensive analysis by my good friend, Nathan Thrall.<\/span><\/p>\n

London Review of Books<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Vol. 36 No 16 \u00b7 21 August 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

pages 10-12 | 3611 words<\/p>\n

\"LRB <\/p>\n

\nHamas’s Chances<\/span><\/h1>\n

Nathan Thrall<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v36\/n16\/nathan-thrall\/hamass-chances<\/a><\/p>\n

Nathan Thrall<\/strong> is a senior analyst with the Middle East and North Africa Programme of the International Crisis Group.<\/p>\n

Note from Sam:<\/em><\/p>\n

For the record, there are two items he missed:<\/p>\n

1. In the context, the pre “war” Palestinian prisoners hunger strike and cold blooded killing of 2 Palestinians by the IDF in Betunia, which may have led to the yet unconfirmed Palestinian role in the 3 settler youths disappearance\/murder.<\/p>\n

2. Re “…well before Israel\u2019s 2005 withdrawal.” Even Israel did not call it “withdrawal” at the time, it was called what it was, a “unilateral disengagement,” or redeployment, to make the point that Israel remains, to this day, in full effective control of Gaza, a.k.a. military occupation.<\/p>\n

Besides these two points, he really did a great job in capturing the context.<\/p>\n

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A really solid and comprehensive analysis by my good friend, Nathan Thrall. London Review of Books Vol. 36 No 16 \u00b7 21 August 2014 pages 10-12 | 3611 words Hamas’s Chances Nathan Thrall http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v36\/n16\/nathan-thrall\/hamass-chances Nathan Thrall is a senior analyst with the Middle East and North Africa Programme of the International Crisis Group. Note from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[617,618,48,1401,439,40,158],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gazaunderattack","tag-palestineunderattack","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-israeli-defense-forces","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-occupied-territories"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"

Sam Bahour<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour played a foundational role in establishing two of Palestine\u2019s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of Just Vision<\/a> and The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine\u2019s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\r\n

A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour is the co-editor of Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201cThe Tallest Man in Ramallah<\/a>.\u201d He holds an Associate\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA \u2014 a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\r\n

He tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at www.epalestine.ps<\/a>, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5730,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions\/5730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}