| Titre | Hamas and the Springs of Others | |
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| Auteur | Thomas W. Hill | |
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Revue | Confluences Méditerranée |
| Numéro | no 98, automne 2016 Partis et partisans dans le monde arabe post-2011 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Dossier |
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| Page | 89-101 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The encounter between Gaza, Hamas and the Arab Spring was unique. In particular, the unimaginable events of 2011-12 in neighbouring Egypt briefly unblocked a radical geopolitical dead-end for both Gaza and Hamas since the 2008-09 Israeli war on the Strip. The week-long war of November 2012 came to crown what seemed an unstoppable, regional ascendancy for Hamas, in its various overlapping guises as national liberation and resistance movement ; de facto part of the regional Muslim Brotherhood family on the rise ; sweeping winner of the last (and its only) elections ; and incumbent government without power outside of Gaza under siege. The 2013 coup in Egypt, followed by the unprecedently bloody 2014 war, put a brutal end to hopes that the regional Spring might prove Gaza's salvation. This article examines the lasting meaning of this « 2012 moment » in Palestinian collective memory ; the relationship it reinvented between Gaza and Hamas ; and how, despite its brevity, that moment may have paradoxically reinforced the ability of both Gaza and Hamas to endure the Israeli-Egyptian siege, now a decade old. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=COME_098_0089 |
