Dotting the I’S & Crossing the T’S
Hamas without Meshaal
Written by Nasser Kandil,
Hamas is one of the important organizations in the Arab and Palestinian life, away from the loyal or opposer feelings towards this movement, it has to be said that it was a one of the distinguished marks for a quarter a century ago, through its role in the conflict with Israel, which resolved its domination on Gaza strip and a half of the Palestinian Parliament. It has prepared itself for the resistance which made Israel enters in its strategic impasse, and about the deterrence capacity which is possessed by Hezbollah that turned into an Israeli inner factor. Its steadfastness in Gaza against three Israeli wars and in front of all the attempts of Ramallah authority, which is followed by the Saudi Egyptian abilities, all of these made of Gaza a changing point in the regional geography. This movement constituted the most important psychological resource of covering a lot of suspicions which are settled about the organization of the Muslim Brotherhood, through which the movement has emerged from, it was always a certificate of good conduct of Brotherhood, which they presented whenever they are condemned with their nationalism, their relations with the West and their collusion against the Arab cases. Hamas Movement is a partner as important as Hezbollah through its participation in the crisis and the war in Syria. On the contrary, it can be said that the balance of the powers in the crisis and war determined the future of the new global system and the new regional system, it can be said as well, that as the enemies of Syria are calling Hezbollah to get out of the Syrian issues, and that they will be responsible for the rest, the supporters of Syria are calling Hamas to get out of the Syrian issues, and that they will insure the rest.
The origin of the debate about Hamas is its attitude of what Syria has witnessed and what is witnessing, and consequently its position from the conflict with Israel after enough time and facts, in order to make this debate fair, useful and objective, it has become clear that the negative attitude of Hamas towards the Syrian country was not because of the accompaniment of an enormous irresistible Arab popular uprising, that the Syrian country as many of the Arab governments stands against it. Hamas has stood against Egyptian popular uprising just because it was against Muslim Brotherhood, so it defended and supported its Brotherhood; moreover, what was called as an Arab Spring is collapsing by the people, revolutions, and elections. So where is the popularity of Hamas for what is going on in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen? And why it is not excited towards the change which today divided the communities equally at least? Incidentally, it has been proven in the Egyptian presidency elections, which brought Mohammed Morsi ( the Muslim Brotherhood ) to the presidency that the parity in the street from that day is with the old regime despite the exaggeration of the idiom of (the people want) , the people wanted a parity from that date between the Brotherhood of Mohammed Morsi and the regime of Hosni Mubarak, the ardor of Hamas remains related with Brotherhood not with people, so it wins according to its Brotherhood origin, while it granted its resistant account and it good reputation to clean the image of a suspicious organization to which it attributed, and wanted its triumph. Moreover that it has been proven that the matter is not a misunderstanding, it was easy for Hamas to justify the destruction of the tunnels towards Gaza during the reign of Morsi, and justify its selling the triumph of Gaza twice for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Turkey. It knew fully that the Israeli flag was fluttering in Ankara, and that the normalization is formed in Doha. Hamas has invested the two wars to deny the sacrifices of Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah in a way that no Arab Bedouin with his spontaneity can accept it away from the principles, values, and politics. It knew that it invested the blood of the martyrs just to support a regional alliance that its referentiality was Washington, and it confederated with Israel against the alliance which is devoted to Palestine and the resistance.
The time has changed, Hamas has to choose, nevertheless neither Qatar not Turkey are able to bring political solutions at the level of lifting the siege of Gaza, and the involving of Hamas in an honorable settlement that includes the withdrawal of the occupied lands since 1967, including Eastern Jerusalem for constituting a country that is shared by Hamas and Fatah within a mutual competitive electoral game, where neither Turkey not Qatar are dare to grant Hamas money and arms to resist it, and a strict American book of terms in everything that is relating to Israel. You can have hotels of ten stars for your leaders but a penny is forbidden to be entered to Izz Al Din Al-Qassam battalions, no gun or a bomb, so how about a missile, Either Hamas has to abandon its resistance, atrophies and fades strongly as its Brotherhood identity, or it has to adhere its resistant option after their resisters have granted four-years term for their political leaders who claimed the ability to combine between the two identities, and they failed, so it is the time for choosing.
All the available data say that Hamas has resolved itself in favor of the priority of the resistance option, but with a quiet transition that neither atomizes its unity, nor affects its image nor breaks the desires and the feelings of their devotees through communicating with the alliance groups which belonged to it for four years. Despite the disadvantages of the relationship with Turkey and Qatar, it is still a shelter and a Brotherhood link, despite the regulator displacement by the orders of Saudi Arabia, as well as the relationship with the Brotherhood of Egypt and Syria, but the compass has settled in favor of the Palestinian Hamas and the resistance at the expense of the Brotherhood sectarian tribal Hamas, and not a substitute for it. The tribalism and the Brotherhood will remain but not at the expense of the Palestinian identity and the resistance. These are the outcomes of long discussions that are carried by the inner delegates of Hamas to the abroad leadership, and to the allies of Yesterday, the allies of before the war against Syria, without accompanying them with clear bold self-criticism which those who have suffered of bitterness deserved, because of the overthrowing of the allies and the lack of fulfillment and treachery.
The resistance alliance has agreed despite the bitterness on the priority of the major options, so it opened the door for the return of Hamas, Iran has decided by the intervention of the leader of the resistance Al Sayyeed Hasan Nasrollah to restore the suspended balances despite the scarcity of the resources in the price war which the oil market has been exposed, Syria has accepted because the most important is the resistance and Palestine. But there are two left things, the first one that it cannot rebuild a new house with the same old stones, where the feelings are the confidence. Khaled Meshaal was no longer the person who deserves the confidence once again, because what he has said in the times of retrenchment against Syria, and his sarcasm against Iran and the resistance by «who have assured by telephone», in addition to what the prince of Qatar and the ruler of Istanbul have described are his real feelings. The second thing is that the major parties which believed in the moving of the responsibilities are standing in front of the turns and say ; we have passed by a big earthquake which is caused by someone, and according to his wrong bets, and his personal behavior with the capacities of the organization in favor of the illusion and a childhood that were about to destruct what has been built by the blood of the martyrs, and at their forefront is their leaders. And that the correction has to be accompanied by an equation that is called is that it is necessary to open a new page, and that someone has to pay the cost, but this cost is not a punishment if Khlaed Meshaal has stayed in Doha in seven stars hotel after assigning a substitute as a Head of the political office, who was not involved in the wars of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Syria.
There is something is being said, that this is what will happen after the farewell visit of Khaled Meshaal to Tehran, and what he is going to have by honoring those who are going to retire.
Translated by Lina Shehadeh
2014-12-30 | عدد القراءات 1763