The ceasefire negotiations are the latest evidence that the group is politically vulnerable after allowing calamity to be unleashed on Gazans. Hamas’s enemies need to take advantage of the opportunity
Among the least appreciated realities in the Gaza ceasefire negotiations in Cairo is the evident political peril facing Hamas. Their softening on some issues, such as the duration and permanency of any ceasefire, demonstrates the profound pressure the Palestinian Islamist group is feeling – representing a major opening for the West, Arab countries and Israel.itself is going well.
The bloody shirt is the most potent political banner that any national community can produce. Hamas seeks to show itself fighting daily against Israeli occupation forces over control of Palestinian land. If Israel obliges by remaining in any part of Gaza, Hamas may get its protracted insurgency. However, that strategy is extremely risky. Hamas did not consult, warn or prepare to protect the innocent Palestinians of Gaza. Hamas boasts that they restored the Palestinian issue to international attention, and that “we are called a nation of martyrs,” but in recent months, the devastated Palestinians of Gaza have been assaulted by Israel more brutally and thoroughly than any civilian population in the 21st century, especially on a per capita basis.
This devastation has invited Palestinians to ask: What did Hamas think it was doing? What happened to my family, my home, my job, my food, my drinking water? What is to become of us? What have you done? These questions were delayed as Palestinians rallied around the flag and focused their rage on Israel’s cruelty. But they are emerging.
Hamas was hoping for a big political win despite incurring a huge military defeat in the initial part of the “permanent war” with Israel. Yet support for their rivals could take potent advantage of Hamas’s political vulnerability because of the calamity they foisted on Gazans. Persisting in disregarding Palestinian politics while treating all Palestinians as essentially the same would be unforgivable political malpractice.
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