HAMAS: TERRORISTS OR FIGHTERS?


Last October 7, the Al Qasam brigades, which are the military wing of Hamas, committed a highly violent attack in Israel, killing some 1,200 Jews and taking another 240 hostage.

This event was a terrorist attack - There is no doubt about it. Hamas acted as a terrorist movement, an unworthy and deplorable act. There is no excuse for this inhumane action. Hamas forgot that peace will come to Gaza through negotiations and not through violent events like the one carried out in October.

But who is Hamas? Prime Minister Netanyahu has vowed to physically eliminate them until not one of them remains. The European Union and the United States consider them terrorists and they are quite right. There is a country, Turkey, that describes them as “freedom fighters.”

According to analysts, less than a thousand militants from the armed branch of Hamas are still active in Gaza. However, it's not going to be easy to eliminate them all.

Because? Because Hamas is not just a group of radical Palestinian militants. It is also an idea; an ideology that has penetrated deeply into the hearts and heads of Palestinian youth, both in Gaza and the West Bank.

It is very difficult to eliminate an ideology. If 100 combatants die tomorrow, another hundred will enlist the next day. This is at least what analysts of the Gaza war think.

Hamas has taken an interesting step by approving the US peace plan, which will allow the release of the hostages still imprisoned in Gaza. Netanyahu is in favor of a pause in the fighting, but continues to reject a permanent ceasefire demanded by the Palestinians.

This is the tense situation that has dominated for weeks. A few days it seems that a pause will be signed in Qatar, which acts as a perfect mediator worthy of praise. And the next day everything takes a step back and we return to a war situation.

The Gordian knot is that Hamas wants a permanent ceasefire, and Netanyahu rejects it at all. “We want the pause, but we also want to continue the war when it ends,” the Jewish prime minister's advisors have pointed out.

Qatar, the United States and Egypt continue to work to convince Netanyahu that, if there is no permanent ceasefire, at least the withdrawal of Tsahal forces from an area to be determined.

Israel is the one that forms the bottleneck, because it forgets that it is an illusion to believe that it will completely eliminate Hamas. Netanyahu shows that he is not a pragmatic character. The president, Joe Biden, has shown that he is.

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