Gaza rockets in the balance of the mind and national liberation strategies

One of the priorities of the right of reason is that we must use it to manage our private and public life matters, and if individuals are subject to contradictory influences between the drives of reason and the drives of emotion, then states and their leaders are supposed to prevail over reason over emotion, and even for peoples under occupation they must submit to reason and rationality in Its practice of politics and resistance, the latter is not an emotional and emotional act or a mere reaction to the occupation and its aggressive practices, but rather requires the presence of a vision and a strategy of national action, and it is the right of reason for us, as Palestinians, who are exposed to threats affecting our national existence, to stop the state of absurdity and confusion that has come to rule and guide all aspects of our lives, in Political and diplomatic action and in the approach of resistance.

The absence of reason and rationality among the political class does not always express ignorance, but rather it may be an intentional act to mislead the masses and make them live in illusions, because the discourse that is transcendent and separate from reality and that tickles the feelings of the masses without touching the mind, such as talking about adhering to national constants and emphasizing national unity or Arab solidarity And the Islamist is with the Palestinian cause and exaggerating the discourse of resistance and liberation... without a practice on the ground that is compatible with these slogans, irrational matters that harm the national cause more than it benefits it.

Indicators of departure from reason and rationality in the Palestinian political action are numerous, including those related to the official political action of the leadership and its betting on a political settlement, the United Nations and the International Criminal Court to restore our usurped rights and protect the people from the oppression of the occupation. Any international conflict, which is a bet closer to illusion and hides within it a state of incapacity and failure to carry out the national duty, including what is related to the armed resistance and its approach and the slide towards giving priority to partisan and personal interests and the calculations of a multiple external agenda.

And since we wrote and spoke at length about the failure of the political settlement approach and the illusions of betting on international legitimacy only to restore our legitimate rights, we will devote this article to the issue of the lack of rationality in the practice of armed resistance, especially the missiles launched from Gaza.

Yes, resistance is a legitimate right for the peoples under occupation, but this right must be exercised rationally and with planning in order to avoid a reaction from the enemy that inflicts more losses than the act of resistance achieves. right?

Whether we call it resistance, jihad, or a liberation movement, it falls within the context of popular resistance or a popular liberation war. Popular resistance needs an integrated national strategy that employs all the energies and capabilities of the people to confront the occupation.

We understand the state of anger and hatred against the occupation, just as we understand the state of sympathy and popular support for every militant operation that targets the enemy, whether it is firing rockets from Gaza or a commando operation in the occupied West Bank. However, reason obliges the resistance fighters to know or anticipate what the enemy will think and his reaction, and not just talk yet. The process is about heroism and victories, so the calculations of victory and defeat include action and reaction and a comparison between them, just as the enemy's reaction will not be limited to the group that carried out the fedayeen action, but the people and the entire national project will pay the price.

And let us subject the following matters to the calculations of reason and rationality, and whether dealing with these issues was indeed rational and served the national interest:

1- When the option of peace and a political settlement was adopted between the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Zionist entity, and the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements rejected this approach, the people were divided, and half of them became with a peaceful, negotiated solution, and the other half with the continuation of the armed struggle, and each party doubted and betrayed the other and worked to thwart its endeavors.

2- After the occupation army left Gaza according to the Zionist plan implemented by Sharon in the fall of 2005, the armed factions announced that the resistance in Gaza forced Israel to withdraw, and assuming that this statement was true, it was assumed and required that the state of armed resistance be transferred to the West Bank to liberate it as well, and that The Palestinians devote themselves to building and developing the Strip and proving the Palestinians’ ability to rule themselves in a democratic and rational manner, but what happened was that Hamas became the sole ruler of Gaza, and the coup took place and what was close to the civil war. Armed resistance has almost stopped in the rest of the Palestinian territories.

3- The division came and the talk of (the war on Gaza), which was invented and promoted by one of the media channels, as if the West Bank and Jerusalem were not witnessing a more serious war and aggression, and the battle became as if it was between the Zionist entity and the Gaza Strip, and in the last confrontation it seemed as if it was between the Zionist entity and the Islamic Jihad movement, and even inside In the West Bank, there was no strategy for the resistance, but sometimes we find those who question the actions of individual resistance.

4- If Hamas knows that Israel, which prevents the establishment of a sovereign authority in the West Bank, is ruled by those who have recognized it and reject military action, does Hamas believe that Israel will allow it to establish a political authority in the West Bank? And another question: Why does Hamas work to weaken the national authority in the West Bank, the authority of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the title of the national project, while Hamas stopped the armed resistance across the borders of the Gaza Strip in return for preserving its authority and the lives of its leaders?

5- Where are the rational calculations in (resisting) missiles and tunnels?

Despite the emotional feelings and feelings and state of popular support raised by the rockets from the Gaza Strip towards the occupied territories, it is through the realization of reason and logical thinking about the purpose behind launching the rockets and the consequences thereof, whether through the destructive reactions of the enemy, or the international reactions where the world is looking It is as if an attack by armed groups on a member state of the United Nations.

It is true that the resistance’s missiles create a state of panic and terror among some Israelis and affect the normal course of life, but the enemy can easily absorb the strike and restore things within days or even hours to what they were. As for the enemy’s reactions and missiles, they inflict damage with each round of war that accumulates and becomes difficult to repair. It makes the Gaza Strip and the resistance factions more subject to blackmail by the enemy and the donors, in addition to the political repercussions, as the confrontations in Gaza divert attention from what is happening in the West Bank.

Whoever thinks of confronting the enemy with missiles and spending is either patriotic but lacks any knowledge of popular liberation wars and their strategies, and therefore his work does not fall within the context of national liberation, or he works for external parties aiming to maintain tension in Palestine and on the Gaza front in favor of an agenda of its own that has nothing to do with the liberation of Palestine .

How can a resistance movement confine its resistance action to the military square in which the enemy greatly excels, and where is the rationality in thinking that missiles and tunnels can liberate the land?

Where is the rationality in a party’s control of a part of the occupied lands (Gaza Strip) that is still under occupation and siege, and the enemy controls all its outlets and controls all the people’s basic needs, including food, medicine, construction materials, travel, and trade, as well as Qatari money with which the Hamas authority pays part of the salaries its employees?!!! Nevertheless, missiles are being fired at this enemy and resistance leaders declare that they will destroy Israel and that they have achieved a balance of power and terror with it?!!!!!

Where is the rationality and the simplest requirements of the strategies of popular liberation wars when the resistance factions launch hundreds and thousands of missiles at the enemy without causing significant human or material damage to it, where the enemy preemptively called on its citizens to fortify themselves in pre-prepared shelters or to transfer them to safe places, while a single missile from the enemy could destroy Residential tower or industrial establishment and erase it completely? And the residents of the strip without shelters or safe places and under the eyes of exploration planes and observation towers?

Where is the rationality when the Hamas and Jihad movements declare their affiliation with the axis of resistance and talk about the unity of the arenas at a time when settlement, terrorism and repeated aggression continue on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque is desecrated and even controlled by the Jews... We do not hear or see any response from the axis of resistance - Iran and Syria And Hezbollah - and worse than that, the declaration of some leaders of the resistance that Gaza will not remain silent in the event of aggression against Iran!!

Finally, after what the national issue has reached and after the political class reached a dead end and became concerned with preserving its interests and privileges more than its concern for the national interest, it is required that the people stop betting on false illusions and slogans promoted by parties, whether they are slogans of international legitimacy and political settlement or slogans Resistance and jihad, especially when we have seen what happened in the West Bank and Jerusalem under an authority that put all its eggs in the basket of betting on peace and international legitimacy, and what happened in the Gaza Strip under the authority of armed resistance factions and rocket launchers.