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DESCRIPTION:$10 ($5 students) at the door\n\npresented by Berkeley Arts & 
 Letters\n\nOver the last two decades, Hamas has become both one of the most 
 infamous terrorist groups on the planet and also the democratically 
 elected, champion party of Palestine. However, the very fact that it still 
 exists at all is a miracle; just ten years ago, Hamas was a far more 
 marginal militant group, isolated by Yasser Arafat and systematically 
 jailed and harassed by Israel. But one botched assassination set in motion 
 a series of improbably events.\n\nKill Khalid tells the story of the 
 dramatic 1997 assassination attempt on Khalid Mishal by Mossad, Israel’s 
 spy agency. Mishal, then a little-known Hamas official, eventually survived 
 the poisoning and later rose to become the head of Hamas, leading the 
 group’s social welfare programs and directing suicide car bombings during 
 the ensuing decade. Acclaimed journalist Paul McGeough carefully 
 reconstructs both the history of Hamas and the decade of dramatic, 
 repercussive action that followed Mishal’s near death. With access to key 
 players and observers of the Middle East conflicts, including exhaustive 
 interviews with Mishal himself, Kill Khalid is a riveting tour de force of 
 investigative journalism. Like Lawrence Wright in The Looming Tower, 
 McGeough takes a ginle, transformative event and uses it to present the 
 motives of many complex groups and their convoluted histories. As King 
 Hussein grapples with how to deal with Hamas’s growing ascendancy, as 
 Israel changes multiple courses to combat new threats, and as Mishal and 
 Hamas devise novel strategies to secure its goals, McGeough details crises 
 that were narrowly averted and reports the missed signals and lost 
 opportunities for peace in the Middle East.\n\nPaul McGeough is the former 
 executive editor of Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald and the author of 
 three books on the Middle East. He has twice been named Australian 
 Journalist of the Year and in 2002 was awarded the Johns Hopkins 
 University–based SAIS Novartis Prize for excellence in international 
 journalism. He lives in Sydney, Australia.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/28/18584209.php
SUMMARY:Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid MIshal and the Rise of Hamas
LOCATION:Hillside Club\n2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/28/18584209.php
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