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Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:51 pm - Jerusalem Time

Equivalent to what "Hamas" said to "Jihad" on the eve of the war hypothetically

Written by: Hamdi Farrag
The news said that three Hamas jihadist leadership meetings were held in Gaza, Beirut and Tehran prior to the launch of the latest aggression on Gaza. The news did not say what happened between the two communities, but the events said. This is a hypothetical scenario:


Hamas for Jihad: Israel has informed Egypt and Egypt has told us that it cannot wait any longer than today (Saturday 6-8) imposing a movement ban on the residents of the settlements around the periphery. They began to clamor and demonstrate and leave for Tel Aviv.


Jihad: We will not change our position to release Al-Saadi and Awadeh.


Hamas: Awadeh will not be renewed for him again, and Al-Saadi is fine and was not injured in gunfire or anything else. There is no need for us to fight a war that is imposed on us and on the entire people in an ordinary and daily issue.


Jihad: We consider this to be two fundamental issues, and we will not give them up.


Hamas: There are issues that are more principled than what you say and remember. Apart from sparing Gaza and its people the scourge of destruction and war, we are not adequately prepared for it.


Jihad: We are ready, and we insist, even if we are forced to fight it without you.


Hamas: We will not prevent you, but we will not participate with you, and we will inform the Egyptians to raise our hand (withdraw our hand) on this issue.


Jihad: We appreciate your position that you will not try to prevent us.


Hamas: We hope that you will also appreciate that we, through the Egyptian mediator, have opened advanced discussions on a number of thorny and intractable files, and we have made some progress.


Jihad: You mean the exchange file?


Hamas: exchange and non-exchange. Crossings, workers and goods. Here you see that the crossings were closed, and workers were prevented from going to their work, and the electricity was about to be cut off.


Jihad: Israel has been manipulating us for the past 15 years, and has been manipulating the Palestinian Authority for 30 years.


Hamas: That's right. Today, however, we possess an arsenal of weapons and missiles that make it compelled to reconsider its calculations and priorities, and it has discovered that the path of war and confrontation does not lead it anywhere, and that there must be another path.


Jihad: It is clear that you are betting on that.


Hamas: It is clear that you reduce the struggle and jihad to the surviving faction or to the sons of the tribe. Saadi and Awadeh.


The hypothetical dialogue ended, the confrontation ended, and about fifty Palestinians were killed between a leader, a resistance fighter, a citizen, a child and a woman, and a real, non-hypothetical dialogue began between Hamas and the Jihad and the rest of the components of the people, through a difficult and humiliating path that the PLO followed 30 years ago, fearing that Hamas will worship it with the Jihad or without it again.


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As for the writer of "Haaretz", who said that the Israeli channels talked extensively about the dog that was killed in Jenin and did not mention the five-year-old Alaa, who was killed in the bombing, we should ask him about the age of the dog.

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