Islamic Hizb ut-Tahrir in Palestine : intellectual foundation and politics between theory and implementation'. This work contains essays regarding the 'Hizb ut-Tahrir' (The Islamic Liberation Party), found in Jerusalam in the early 1950s before the West Bank was under Israeli occupation. The essays look at the history o the Hizb, its rise and its fall, its position on democracy and human rights, Palestine in the ideology of the Hizb...and could it be an alternative to Hamas? By: Jacob Holglit, Walid Salem, Karam Daha, Bilal Salameh.