Ibrahim Abrash responds to Musa Abu Marzouk..

In the response of Dr. Musa Abu Marzouk, Deputy Head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas Movement, to my article entitled (Enough of arrogance and stubbornness, Hamas), published on February 26 in more than one newspaper and website, he said at the beginning of his lengthy response, verbatim: (If I did not know you, I would have said that the author of the article was Afkhai Adraee. )!

This is what prompted me to respond directly to him and publish my response now after the statements of Abu Marzouk and Hamas leaders in Türkiye two days ago.

Greetings, dear brother Musa Abu Marzouk

I thank God that you know me, otherwise you would accuse me of treason just because I said that the homeland is more important than the parties and that the removal of the Hamas movement from the scene will not end the issue, even though I said that the matter applies to all parties, and the state of the issue confirms that the entire political class and its parties have brought the national issue to a dead end, just as every other failure has failed. Reconciliation dialogues and division are still continuing, and everyone is unable to stop the war of genocide against Gaza.

You may say that Hamas is an exception because it is resisting, but we remind you that all of the organization’s factions fought at home and abroad and presented more martyrs than Hamas, and that the majority of the martyrs of the national project were guerrillas, while the majority of those who were martyred during the era of Hamas’ resistance were civilians.

My dear brother, we do not doubt the heroism and sacrifices of Hamas fighters, but in the end wars are by their results, not by the individual heroics of the fighters. A party or political movement cannot be victorious at the expense of destroying a homeland, and there is no comparison to Vietnam or Algeria, as today’s world is not the world of that time, and our geography is not the geography of those countries.

Why do you consider that Hamas as a party or political group will continue forever while parties are a political phenomenon that have a functional role in society and their continuity is linked to their ability to achieve the national interest and not the interest of the party, its leaders and its ideology? All parties make mistakes and are wrong and are destined to disappear, even after a while, or to change their names and ideologies, especially if they come. The winds are not what their ships desire, and the Hamas movement has plunged the national issue into a maze after the Al-Aqsa flood operation, and you know the devastation and destruction that befell Gaza.

Saying the demise of Hamas and its leaders is not a call to eliminate it, but rather a call to give priority to the interest of the nation over the interest of the party, especially since the ongoing dialogues in Moscow in which Hamas participates do not rule out the absence of Hamas from the direct political scene in Gaza.

  On the other hand, many branches of the Muslim Brotherhood changed the name of their party in order to integrate into society and be accepted internationally.

It seems, my dear brother, that you consider Hamas to be a divine movement and government that cannot fail or be defeated, and it is not permissible to criticize it, and that it is the most important

From the homeland and above the people, and let the people burn, and Gaza be destroyed, and let the homeland go to hell, and even Hamas and Gaza go to hell. What is important is that Hamas’ leaders abroad continue well and declare their victory not only over Israel but also over the PLO and prove themselves as the sole legitimate representative over the remnants of the people of Palestine.

Dr. Ibrahim Ibrash