Hamas and the Political Party: The Choice of Necessity and National Salvation

Written by: Dr. Ahmed Youssef

After Algeria’s announcement of Palestinian reunification, my conviction increased more than ever before that the scene of governance and politics needs the emergence of new faces other than those that created the national tragedy and catastrophe fifteen years ago, and became part of the Palestinian scene in the crisis and the failures to reach a solution that restores balance and stability to the Palestinian situation. It has lost its compass and lost its ship in a deep sea of accusations and contradictions, with it - unfortunately - our social fabric has been torn apart and our most trustworthy bond has crumbled, and our sails and political arms are no longer in this dispute and fragmentation with the force capable of bringing together and facing the challenge.
The "Algeria Declaration" may have given us a glimmer of hope to open a new page, which is to hold legislative and presidential elections a year from now, a period in which if we put our internal house in order, then we can expand in the spaces of hope, and say that the pessimism of the prevailing mind today among the intelligentsia, It can be balanced by the optimism of the will of the Palestinian street.
For my part, I advise my brothers in the Hamas movement that there is an opportunity for a new political outlook, by announcing a political party whose program carries a vision that reflects the state of maturity that the movement has reached after dealing with its regional environment, and the activities that take place behind the scenes with the international community. Accordingly; I suggest to my brothers in the leadership of Hamas not to waste the opportunity for elections and to run for them with patriotic figures (technocrats) who are faithful to the constants, whose positions are not tainted by non-national contexts, and who are capable of making a breakthrough at the regional and international levels.
I wish Hamas to preserve its jihadist history, its resistance action, its missionary approach and its school of genuine educational advocacy work, and to dismount to those whom it trusts among the knights of this country to carry the secretariat of political work, manage the negotiating process with the occupation and the international community, and invest what it possesses of pressure and mobilization cards to support These knights.
Perhaps here I will repeat what I previously raised in the context of advice, which is that the process of managing the future requires great acumen and wisdom, and it also requires deep thinking about the options and alternatives offered, taking into account the consequences of each of them in the context of scenarios whose prospects we can anticipate, and based on That is why plans are drawn up, and aspirations are drawn in light of the possibilities and the data of the existing circumstances, as politics is a reflection of the balance of power, which seems today to be in the interest of the Islamists and Hamas in particular.
Yes; We have already talked more than 15 years ago about the importance of establishing a political party that represents the movement and expresses its policies, especially after Hamas entered the arena of political action, and became established in the scene of governance and politics. All movement and organization exempt from the consequences of political action, as the presence of a political wing protects the movement from prosecution and accusation, and the targeting parties remain limited and do not affect everyone.
What we demanded more than a decade and a half ago still exists, although its feasibility at the beginning of the governance project was more effective and important, and its chances of entering the world of competition with others and establishing a national partnership with them are easier, and it is not fraught with the dangers that it may face today, especially After the statements that implicated Arab and Islamic parties by accusing Hamas of extremism and terrorism!!
A political party that bears the orientations of the Hamas movement in general will give the movement wide spaces for movement and maneuver. It will also avoid the movement draining all its energies, and will protect some of its arms from prosecution and accusation. regional and international.
The new political paper launched by the movement in 2017 may include much of what can be adopted in the political party's program, which will pave the way for the possibility of moving within the framework of any political settlements to preserve the ceiling of Palestinian demands in the context of the historical constants, for which generations fought during all the years of conflict. with the usurper occupier.
What is being orchestrated for the region in terms of deception, deception, and attrition under the so-called war on terror, in which reference was made to Hamas by former US President Donald Trump, in a way that reflects the extent of Western bias towards Israel, which gives dangerous indications of the nature of the next stage, and the size of the conspiracy that will be exposed. He owns the movement and its institutions in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
The choice of the political party may not be widely accepted by the leadership of the movement, although many of the movement's elites and thinkers have approval for the idea, and this is what makes it difficult to expect a natural birth for the party at present, but the factor of time and the pressures of reality will impose its birth, and this is the challenge that the movement will face. In the near future, with many other challenges awaiting her.