Beyond Sacred and Secular: Politics of Religion in Israel and Turkey Book

I learned a bit about the group identified here from my studies in International Relations, perhaps more Comparative Politics (the semester after the next one), but this book solidified my foundation (since as it was, my notes are impossible to read so I just have in my mind a giant skull-and-crossbones sign over Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Palestinian Authority).

If I were going to more seriously study Arabic, I'd take more note from this, but as it is, there are so many cultures clamoring for my attention, and Persian has a similar essence without the similar dangerous feel.

I decided this book was stressing me out too much when I'm already trying to read Solzhenitsyn and the twenty-some others BESIDES watching the several international movies I got from the Library this week, so this book is getting the axe, even though I highly treasure the valid information Tamimi presents, hence the three-star rating.

My personal discomfort shrunk my opinion, though it's what is out there in the world and my colleagues adore discussing it.

Once again, I will stress this book seems valid and the bias is not anti-Semitic, which is better than the other American cheatsheet book about terrorism I recently reviewed, but HAMAS makes me panic, um, as is their job.