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Hamas's "Resistance" Has Achieved Nothing for the Palestinian People
(X) Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib - When a ceasefire in Gaza is announced, Hamas's fascists will do everything they can to frame this as the ultimate victory. They will wear their military uniforms, emerge from their tunnels, stop hiding in schools and displacement centers, and very quickly reassert their control. They'll even get a few Gazans to celebrate and dance for them. The reality, however, is that no Gazan will seriously celebrate after 15 months of death and destruction. Every single person in Gaza has not only experienced the most traumatic chapter of their lives, but has been directly impacted by the destruction of 70% of the Strip, and the death of tens of thousands, with every single person having a relative or close family member who was killed. The reality is that the Islamist terrorism of Hamas, masquerading as "resistance," has achieved nothing for the Palestinian people except for billions of dollars in wasted resources and tens of thousands of needless deaths, with Gaza in ruins 20 years after the withdrawal of Israel in 2005. Hamas's propaganda machine, run by Qatari state media Al-Jazeera, will work overtime to turn a catastrophic disaster into a victory, desperately seeking to promote the armed resistance narrative as one that is heroic and valiant when it is cowardly and ineffective. The writer, a Palestinian-American humanitarian activist, is a Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council.