Did Hamas get the message?

Did the results of the meeting of the foreign ministers of the five Arab countries and their message: Egypt, Jordan, the Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, with the PLO and the Arab League on Saturday, February 1, 2025, reach Hamas, when the joint statement literally stated: “Empowering the Palestinian Authority to assume its duties in the Gaza Strip, as part of the occupied Palestinian territory, along with the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and in a way that allows the international community to address the humanitarian catastrophe that the Strip has been exposed to due to the Israeli aggression?”

A clear message from sister countries that support Palestine, including Qatar, the main incubator of the Hamas movement, where its leaders reside on its land and under its protection, and including the two parties mediating the truce deal, Egypt and Qatar with the United States.

Hamas has proven its presence and position, and paid a heavy price by assassinating its first leaders militarily and politically, and has stood firm in the face of the Israeli attack and aggression for 15 months, following the October 7, 2023 operation, but the world remembers, knows and sees that it has been managing the Gaza Strip alone since the “military decision” it made in June 2007, and is leading the Gaza Strip alone, to this day.

The Fatah movement, which has led the coalition in the PLO since 1969 until today, is the one that took the initiative and accepted the results of the Legislative Council elections on 1/25/2006, the outcome of which was the success of the Hamas movement, and its assumption of the presidency of the government and the Legislative Council by decision and approval of President Mahmoud Abbas, and his acceptance of the results of the elections, before Hamas’s decision to take sole control of the Gaza Strip.

The battle against the occupation is fierce in the Gaza Strip, and now it is transferring its crimes to the West Bank, which requires cohesion, unity and national coalition among all components of the Palestinian people, especially between the two parties of the division, Fatah and Hamas. The Fatah movement is accused of negligence and withdrawal from the armed struggle, and the Hamas movement is accused of causing the Palestinian people calamities for which they paid a heavy price. Therefore, both have something to boast about and something to record against them, and both are subject to criticism and opposition. All attempts at alternatives and detractions by one party to the other have failed, and both have the presence and support that provides them with the appropriate position they deserve. The Fatah and Hamas movements have no choice but to meet, reach an understanding and bypass attempts by their two parties to monopolize what is available in terms of management, control and exclusivity.

The Israeli colony has military superiority, and there is no one to deter it except the Palestinian struggle, which requires unity, cohesion and coalition within: 1- A common political program, which is available, 2- A unified representative institution, which is the PLO and its various institutions, 3- Agreed upon tools of struggle.

The upcoming political battle for the Palestinians in the face of the Israeli-American alliance and understanding is no less fierce than the battles and confrontations in the West Bank, as it was in the Gaza Strip, throughout the past 15 months. The alliance and coalition that leads the colony is committed to: 1- Unified Jerusalem as the capital of the colony, and 2- That the West Bank is not Palestinian, not Arab and not occupied, but rather Judea and Samaria, meaning that it is part of the map of the colony. Therefore, the two-state solution is not a realistic solution available, and the one-state solution is only an illusory dream so far. There is no choice but the option of resistance and confrontation by the Palestinian people on their homeland, in confronting the occupation with the available tools and methods of struggle, the most important of which and at the forefront of which is the unarmed popular civil uprising, as it was in 1987, and it achieved the most important political accomplishment in the history of the Palestinian people with the success of the late President Yasser Arafat in transferring the title, institution and struggle from exile to the homeland through the gradual, multi-stage Oslo Agreement in 1993.

There is no alternative to a meeting between Fatah and Hamas with the rest of the factions, otherwise the division and isolation will remain, which provides a free service to the national, religious, and humanitarian enemy: the Israeli colony.