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We Must Be Liberated from Hamas

(Ha'aretz) Anonymous Gazan - We've tried an armed struggle in the past and achieved nothing. I oppose such a struggle because violence leads to more hatred and more deaths, taking place in an arena with an imbalance of forces. Israel will always overcome us that way. This war has changed people's mindset and overturned conceptions. I have lost my loved ones, family members, friends and neighbors. My house is in ruins. I believe that resolving the conflict must be done on a realistic basis, relying on tools available in the present, not on stories of the past and on history. Illusions must be discarded, such as the illusion that Israel can be removed or that [the old] Palestine can be restored. Israel is a fact and it's powerful, while the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza is impossible. Such a state is perceived as a threat to Israel's identity, and faces many obstacles. I've always supported the idea of an independent Palestinian state, but if we had such a state now, most chances are that Hamas would be ruling it, turning it into an arm of Iran, like in Lebanon. An independent state could become fertile ground for the appearance of radical groups like Hamas, groups that intensified their activity against Israel after the Oslo Accords, competing politically with the Fatah movement. In all honesty, I don't think we are ready for a state. We've experienced two ruling authorities in Gaza: a Fatah government, which was characterized by disorder and gangs, followed by Hamas. After Hamas won the election in 2006, we've experienced 18 years of tyrannical rule, with crumbling health and education systems, unemployment, poverty, suicides, and the channeling of tax revenues to the building of a military force. Hamas rule has turned us into a nation of beggars. Gaza, which used to be a free and diverse place, became a closed and poor enclave devoted to security, replete with displays of militarism and extremism, like in Afghanistan. I don't think that Hamas' liberal supporters overseas know that this movement burned cinemas in Gaza in the early 1990s, preventing their re-opening to this day, with its rule in Gaza being a copy of the regime in Iran. We must be liberated from slavery to Hamas and from organizations working for Iran.
2024-12-15 00:00:00
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