Caveats of exclusivity and division

General Giora Eiland, former head of the Israeli National Security Council from 2004-2006, summarized the lessons of the colony's "shield and spear" campaign against the Islamic Jihad movement and the people of Gaza in an article published by the Hebrew Yedioth Ahronoth on 5/14/2023 under the title "Eight Lessons from the Campaign":

The most important of which is the distinction between two types of military campaigns, the first with a limited goal in order to preserve the status quo, and the second aimed at changing the status quo.

The campaign of aggression against Gaza was of the first kind, limited in purpose, which is to harm the capabilities of the jihad movement, reduce its militant initiatives, and reduce its level of danger, which is what it has already done with Hamas several times with the aim of trimming its nails and pulling out its fangs, but not to harm its unilateral authority and control over the Gaza Strip. As long as it adheres to the truce agreements, which it is, and it proved that in the August 2022 campaign, and here it is renewing its credibility and commitment to the truce in the May 2023 campaign, at the lowest Israeli human and material cost.

Hamas is begging to maintain its authority in the Gaza Strip, through two factors:

1- Continuing to open the doors of the 48 areas for Palestinian labor from the people of Gaza, who are about twenty thousand workers who go daily to work in the workshops and factories of the colony in the 48 areas.

2- Continuing to pass Qatari financial aid on a monthly basis, through Ambassador Al-Emadi.

In the two cases and through them: 1- Working in Areas 48, 2- Qatari cash assistance, there are opportunities to improve the economic living situation, as possible for the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip under the authority of Hamas, in the face of impoverishment and starvation as a result of the cruel and unjust siege by the colony against the people of the Strip.

Giora Eiland calls on the colonial government to recognize Hamas, and to open negotiations with it, so that it will be the title of the Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip.

The Hamas movement has three titles:
First, it has sole authority in the Gaza Strip and has full control.

Secondly, it has credibility in the decision, and it has proven that when a truce agreement is reached with it through the Egyptian mediator, it is absolutely committed to that.

Thirdly, it is an extension of the largest and most important cross-border political movement in the Arab world, which is the Muslim Brotherhood movement, and reaching any agreement with it that includes this and is reflected in the Muslim Brotherhood factions with multiple geographical locations.

The scrutinizing observer cannot but take this into consideration, towards scrutinizing the future programs and plans of the colony that deepen the gap between the Palestinian factions and parties, and between the Palestinian West Bank and the Gaza Strip. At the expense of the entire Palestinian title: Return, Freedom and Independence.

The Hamas movement is a basic militant faction, as are Fatah, Jihad, the People's Party, Democracy, the People's Party, and the rest of the factions. Therefore, without the partnership being inclusive of all within the framework of the PLO, its institutions, and the Palestinian Authority and its tools, anxiety resides in the depths of those who bear a sense of responsibility, and avoid every Israeli programming and scheme aimed at the survival of Division and fragmentation and its continuity, as it is currently prevalent.