Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the anticolonial and the postcolonial

A postcolonial moment or colonial subcontractor?

“…The decision of the PLO leadership to embark on the illusion of peace and state-building under ongoing settler colonialism precluded critical stages in the national liberation trajectory, most notably decolonization. In Sen's (2020) words, this effectively introduced "postcoloniality into a settler colonial condition" (p. 114), a peculiar reality that has no historical precedence. Obscured by the prospects of what is advertised as a "peace process," the PLO leadership provided substantial concessions to affirm the transition from an anti-colonial struggle to a state-building imperative, most importantly by delegitimizing armed struggle as a means for Palestinian liberation (Sen 2020, 117).…”