and secular Palestinians. They had fought a very effective campaign against Israel, whereas Hamas has had very limited success. The book predicts the current Palestinian crisis where (PLO) Fatah and Hamas militias battled each other in the streets of Gaza and in other parts of Palestine for dominance over the Palestinian people. Dreyfuss claims that the political and economic isolation of Hamas is currently suffocating the new government. Gaza is running out of gas and public workers have not been paid for many months. This has been a strategic victory for Israel in a classic example of divide and conquer. Critical reception Publishers Weekly gave the book a "Starred Review", stating that it "reaches farther and deeper into the subject than most". Vanessa Bush for the American Library Association described it as "well-researched and insightful." L. Carl Brown in Foreign Affairs, criticized the book's emphasis, arguing that the US has also opposed Islamic fundamentalism on many occasions, and that the author would have done better to focus on America's "excessively intrusive, regime-changing approach to the Middle East" instead, although he acknowledges in the next line that "Ironically, that is the thrust of his remarks on pages 15-17 of the introduction." See also Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy Unholy Wars The Grand Chessboard References Books about Islamic fundamentalism Books about foreign relations of the United States Israeli–Palestinian conflict books