Hamas initiative

In its editorial on Friday, November 22, 2024, the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz described the arrest warrant against Netanyahu and Galant as having placed the colony “at an unprecedented moral low, as a state whose leaders are accused of war crimes against the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip,” and said: “Netanyahu hopes that President-elect Donald Trump will save him from the distress with the help of sanctions on the court, its judiciary, and Attorney General Karim Khan.”

“You can expect a strong response to anti-Semitic bias from the International Criminal Court and the United Nations in January,” wrote Mike Waltz, Trump’s nominee to be national security adviser, when Trump is inaugurated on January 20, 2025.

Netanyahu has treated the International Criminal Court with pre-emptive hostility, calling it “anti-Semitic” and “the enemy of humanity,” and making multiple and immoral accusations against the prosecutor in his conduct and harming his reputation. In short, he has treated the court with denunciation and attack.

The general political atmosphere at the international level is tense and tense. There is a deep division between those who sympathize, support and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their suffering and pain, primarily the youth of American and European universities, and those who stand against them, whether for political and security reasons related to the official government bias towards the Israeli colony, as the United States and the major European countries, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, as well as Canada and Australia, do. This requires comprehensive Palestinian, Arab, Islamic and Christian work and activity, and by progressive forces that stand against colonialism, occupation, fascism and racism that have begun to appear in the colony, its army, its apparatuses and the coalition that leads it, which Haaretz described as "the worst coalition in the history of Israel."

The conflict, disagreement, disparity and gap between the trends that support the Palestinian people and those that are hostile to them or at least do not support them requires Palestinian action first, and specifically by the Hamas movement, especially since it committed blatant mistakes, coupled with the courageous and proactive struggle of the unprecedented October 7 operation. The mistakes were:

First: Detaining Israeli civilians, whether women, the elderly or children.

Secondly: It did not charge the Palestinian President, the PLO, and the Palestinian Authority to negotiate with it as partners for one cause.

Hamas still has the ability and time, even if it is late, to take a courageous initiative to release all the Israeli civilian prisoners it is holding, especially since it has 91 officers and soldiers, and even if half of them are killed, it still has enough military personnel to bargain and exchange, not to talk about exchanging civilian prisoners.

Hamas needs to restore its reputation as a militant faction with an Islamic reference that respects people and does not practice hatred or revenge. It is an organization that works for the freedom and dignity of its people, and this should not be at the expense of others, even if they are Jews.

The Zionist movement exploited the suffering of the Jews and the injustice they were subjected to at the hands of Russian Tsarism, German Nazism and Italian Fascism, and allied with the colonial countries and established its colonial project on the land and homeland of the Palestinians at their expense, persecuting them, displacing them and tearing them apart through killing and displacement. Therefore, the Hamas movement must present an Islamic, national, humanitarian alternative that is the opposite of Zionism and its racist, fascist, colonial practices on the land of Palestine.