Hamas’s Dilemma https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2013/06/hamass-dilemma/

June 24, 2013 | Jonathan Schanzer
About the author: Jonathan Schanzer, a former terrorism finance analyst at the United States Department of the Treasury, is senior vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He is author of the new book Gaza Conflict 2021: Hamas, Israel and Eleven Days of War (FDD Press). Follow him on Twitter @JSchanzer.

As Egypt pressures Hamas to stop smuggling weapons into Gaza, Iran stands ready to back the terrorist movement’s rivals; for now, it seems to have little appetite for open conflict.

Read more on Foreign Policy: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/how-hamas-lost-the-arab-spring/277102/