There are pockets of the diplomatic world where characterizing Hamas as a moderate, pragmatic organization has become something of a cottage industry. Very occasionally, the Iran-backed group has banned particularly controversial policies and, thereby, provided material for that cottage industry. The last time Hamas executed someone for a criminal offense...

Reconciliation between the Palestinian Hamas and Fatah factions has traditionally been treated as a prerequisite to the creation of a viable Palestinian state. Hamas controls the Gaza Strip and Fatah controls Palestinian portions of the West Bank, and all are territories that the Palestinians reserve for a single Palestinian state....

The Palestinian Hamas faction has spent the last few months in something of a freefall, finding itself almost totally isolated regionally and losing control inside the Gaza Strip. The Iran-backed terror group has sought to restore its visibility via spectacular terror attacks, and has sought to reassert domestic control by...

The Arab Spring has seen governments overthrown, mass movements formed and dissolved, and geopolitical calculations upended for groups and countries spanning Iran-backed terror groups all the way to NATO countries. It’s also seen a kind of dropping of pretenses for Al Jazeera, the Qatari-owned TV station that has often been...

Two Israeli soldiers were killed by Palestinians in recent days, renewing criticism of Palestinian leaders accused of inciting violence and failing to prepare the Palestinian public for co-existence with the Jewish state and rattling U.S.-backed peace negotiations: In a statement concerning both attacks, the United States said such incidents “undermine efforts to establish...

Hamas is scrambling to prevent widening domestic unrest from escalating into a genuine threat to the Palestinian terror group’s control over the Gaza Strip. Al-Monitor this weekend surveyed an array of crackdowns initiated by Hamas officials, from the targeting of activists who support Hamas’s rival Fatah to the harassment of...