Hamas.. the belligerent, the moderate and the confused..

Written by: Nabil Amr
In a previous article, I described the Fatah movement, which is my first and last home, despite my complete distance from the official organizational websites in it, as being now... expelled, expelled, and inattentive.

Here I am writing about Hamas with the same approach, description, and conclusions. It is the warrior, meaning that it fought several large-scale wars with Israel, in addition to limited battles that took place from one war to the next, and it still retains its fully controlled weapons.
It is the moderate one that disapproved of two wars in which it left the Islamic Jihad movement alone in the face of the Israeli aggression with its huge war machine, the latest of which was the Three Day War. Granting an objective opportunity for the promised facilities that Gaza needs.

It is confused as to how to perform what is required of it as an indispensable condition for joining the camp of Arab moderation, to which Fatah preceded it after it presented through the PLO what was required of it as conditions for its approval in this camp and the international forces behind it, led by the United States and Europe.

Hamas made remarkable steps towards moderation, as it is too early to use the term joining the camp, when it received Israeli praise for its position on the Three-Day War, and international blessing for what was described as the courage of restraint and moderation and the development of detailed coordination with Egypt, as it was an effective partner in the efforts to end the war. Finally, obtaining a valuable Jordanian award by receiving Mr. Khaled Meshaal in Amman, who was distinguished by a standing ovation that lacked only official protocol announcements.

Perhaps it is just a coincidence --- despite the lack of coincidences in the political tracks-, that Mahmoud Abbas arrives in Turkey, one of the main incubators of Hamas, and that Khaled Meshaal arrives in Amman, the main incubator of the Palestinian Authority. The Egyptian is the master of Arab moderation, and Abbas is in Ankara, which inaugurated a huge leap in normal relations with Israel at all levels, at a time when the Hebrew state waged a relentless war against Abbas simply for using the word holocaust without meaning what the Israelis considered a denial of it.

The title of Mr. Meshaal's visit to Amman took on a family and social form, and because there are no effective considerations in politics like this, it is in fact political par excellence, through which Hamas is betting that a lot will be built on it in the relationship with the qualitative state "Jordan", that is, the most established and fundamental state in the camp Arab moderation.

It is too early to draw definite conclusions about the visit and what it will entail. Hamas's relationship with Jordan, in the current situation, can bear a positive development after the stumbling blocks it has gone through since its expulsion and the closure of its institutions. However, this aspect will not be everything and will not be isolated from the network of relations in the region and its positioning. Each of its sides, because there is a compulsory corridor, American and European, and in some way internationally, that must be crossed in order to grant the membership card to the Moderation Club. itself face to face in front of a solid wall that Israel built to prevent the Palestinians from their basic rights, so it took everything it wanted from Oslo and did not give the consequences of what it promised and committed itself to.

Hamas crossed a thorny path full of wars and filled with the difficult suffering that befell Gaza and its people, from the first shell fired from it or at it to the last cease-fire, without the emergence of a tangible horizon for ending the siege and reaching a political settlement in which Hamas would be either a representative of the Palestinians or a partner of Fatah in going to it.

The lessons of the “Fatah” peace journey deserve from Hamas a pause and contemplation of all its chapters and the smallest details. This is to determine positions and steps. It is obvious that what was difficult and costly in terms of the option of fighting will seem more difficult and costly in the case of the option of moderation. There is no doubt that the multiplication of difficulties and costs results from lack of The Palestinian representation has been decided once and for all, neither Fatah is able to move forward even at a modest pace, nor is Hamas able to take off in any direction if the division persists with its struggle for influence and legitimacy, and the world that gives signs of success and failure is not oblivious to reality.

The two conflicting parties would have been in a much better condition if they had gone to the healthy vessel ready to be contained, which is the PLO, which embodied and led a comprehensive and solid national unity despite its long march over the minefields. Will the new coups and alignments in the region and the world lead to a rediscovery of the importance of the PLO as a national incubator? For everyone, without ignoring the need to reform it, while acknowledging a self-evident truth that says that reform is possible if it comes from within, and this is what Hamas did not adopt and what Fatah did not do much for.

Finally...the organization should not be seen as a framework and an incubator for unity through its current reality, in which it appears to be semi-organised, nothing more. What should be done is to return to it again by adopting the electoral hierarchy that almost succeeded last May, which is the legislative and then presidential elections. Then the National Council. If this happens, a rare advantage will be available, which is that half of the National Council will be elected, which will facilitate consensus on the remaining half. This is what attention should be directed to if everyone wants to put the Palestinian cause and Palestinian rights in their proper place.