"Hamas" and the mood of the people

Written by: Mohamed Salama

Hamas is subjected to severe criticism daily, whether in Gaza, the West Bank or abroad, and the reason is its refusal to participate in the recent war on Gaza on the side of Islamic Jihad, and we will not reveal a secret if we say that the people's mood tends to accuse it.

Israeli intelligence reports indicate that the detainee, Tayseer Al-Saadi from Al-Jihad, is the founder of the Palestinian Hezbollah and the armed Nablus Battalion, one of the radical Islamic Jihad elements, and one of the Fatah rebels, most of whom are from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and that Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi is the field commander of the Nablus Battalion, while it is indicated that funding is from Iran, and in the other picture, a popular mood against Hamas and the moderate Fatah in the West Bank.

The duo “Hamas and Jihad” in Gaza are the most influential and control over the Strip, while the Fatah movement is out of the game, and the equation is reversed in the West Bank, since the Jenin armed battalion has effectively become a force parallel to that of the Palestinian Authority, and now the Nablus battalion, which seeks to establish an authority parallel to the Palestinian Authority. Estimates are that the members of the two battalions are in the thousands, and that the people’s mood is rapidly changing against Hamas by accusing it not of treason but of participating in security coordination in the West Bank. What is remarkable here is that the dissidents from Fatah from the Al-Aqsa Brigades lead the resistance, and constitute the main elements in the Nablus and Jenin battalions, and attempts are being made to tarnish the image of this alliance. It comes from religious Salafist elements, some of whom are affiliated with Hamas, and this increases the popular mood calling for resistance and overcoming Hamas and the PA together.

“Hamas” .. its image is not good these days among ordinary people, as the popular mood in the West Bank tends against it, and perhaps this is what Israel wants to perpetuate the complete separation between Gaza and the West Bank, and the continuation of the Israeli army’s operations in Nablus comes to dismantle the cells of the Nablus Battalion before it is formed and imposed A new reality on the ground, as there are (400) prisoners since the beginning of this year, and more than thirty martyrs have been killed during the same period, which means that the security campaign is continuing and that the confrontations in the West Bank are likely to escalate, and that the risk of a third intifada is inevitable.

Hamas, for the first time, is out of people's mood in its dealings with the recent Gaza war and with the armed confrontations in Nablus, and for the first time popular accusations are directed against it. The result is that its attempts to stabilize the calm in Gaza or the West Bank have turned against it. In any case, it is still within the equation of the conflict with Israel, and it has Its accounts are far from the jihad and the Al-Aqsa Brigades, and perhaps if the confrontations continue in the West Bank, it will find itself forced to participate in it in response to the popular mood against the Israeli occupation and the settlers who have confiscated and destroyed Palestinian land. About the "Jordanian Constitution"