FORWARD In this booklet we have focused on the Palestinian-facing view of this history rather tha... more FORWARD In this booklet we have focused on the Palestinian-facing view of this history rather than the more traditionally-presented Israeli-facing one, in order to explain what Hamas is and how it came about. The WILPF United States Section Middle East Issue Committee has had a lengthy internal discussion regarding Hamas and its relationship to peace talks in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. We want to expand that discussion to the rest of WILPF. Barbara Taft, co-chair of the committee, and Ellen Rosser, a member who has spent many years in the region, drafted the material in this booklet to explain committee viewpoints. We hope this booklet will give its readers a more balanced view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than is usually presented in the US media. In fact, some parts of the booklet are presented more from a Palestinian perspective than from the more usual Israeli one. We believe that both perspectives are necessary in order for just decisions to made US foreign policy, and it is our hope that this booklet will facilitate the State Departments' removing the US Foreign Organizaitons Terrorist List since it does not belong there.
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