[Times-UK] Andrew Billen - Hamas does not enjoy a good press, and probably does not deserve to. "Best known in Israel and the West for its suicide bombings," says Wikipedia pretty unarguably. According to the brave and revealing documentary "Inside Hamas" on Sunday night on Channel 4, Hamas is making a hopeless government and has turned its brutality on its own people. There are signs that families are sickening of offering up their sons for martyrdom in return for scant political progress. One protester, Ramzi Nasser, beaten up for talking to the documentary, announced that although he came from a family of 11 Hamas "martyrs," he was off to join Fatah, the movement's more moderate rival. The only surge in Hamas recruitment is occurring in prison, where a convicted drug dealer spoke enthusiastically of a government scheme by which his sentence was reduced by two months for every chapter of the Koran he memorized. Hamas looked morally and politically bankrupt to me.
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