“Hamas” on its founding anniversary, fascist, pragmatic movement that traded religion, profited from resistance

Mohamed Abdel-Ghaffar

An uprising began on 9 December 1987, in the Jabalia refugee camp after an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) truck collided with a civilian car, killing four Palestinians.

Sheikh Ahmed Yassin met with Ibrahim Al-Yazuri, Muhammad Shamaa, Abdel-Fattah Dukhan, Abdel Aziz Al-Rantisi, Issa Al-Nashar and Salah Shehadeh, all of whom are men of the terrorist Brotherhood in Palestine, and they decided to launch a new movement, known as Hamas, and issued their first statement on December 14, 1987, its first goal according to the declaration, “the liberation of Palestine.”

The most prominent success of the movement on the political level was its success in obtaining the majority of votes in the 2006 legislative elections, before it turned against the democracy that brought it to power and expelled the representatives of the Fatah movement from the Gaza Strip, and arrests all those who oppose it in power, to enter the Gaza Strip in a whirlpool From poverty and injustice.

The question always remains, does Hamas really defend the Palestinian cause? Or does it take advantage of it to win sympathy and support.

The mother group in Egypt, namely the Muslim Brotherhood, has sought to exploit the Palestinian cause and employ it politically through its Palestinian arm, since the war of 1948.

This explains the large scale of the demonstrations that the Brotherhood, with its various arms, organized, and the continuous denial of any relationship that brings the two parties together with Israel, despite the continual European assurances on this matter.

A clear identification of the position of Hamas on the Palestinian issue can be found in a video leaked of Mahmoud al-Zahar, along with a number of supporters and leaders of the Hamas movement, June 2019, as he said, “Our project is larger than Palestine, Palestine is not shown on the map.”

Hamas is the political arm of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine, which began to appear there in 1935, when its leader Hassan al-Banna sent two members of the group in Cairo, who were his brother Abdel Rahman, and the organization’s secretary, Muhammad Asaad al-Hakim, to Palestine.

In 1936 the group announced the establishment of its first branch in the city of Haifa, then another branch in the Gaza Strip, and several years later, specifically in 1943, the terrorist group announced the launch of the “Makarim Association”, which branches have spread inside the Palestinian territories.

All of these movements were closely related to the mother organization in Egypt, whether on the intellectual level through following the ideas of senior theorists of the terrorist group such as Hassan al-Banna and Sayed Qutb, or at the structural level.

Despite the close connection between the terrorist Brotherhood in Egypt and the Hamas movement in Palestine, the latter tried to delude the world that this relationship did not exist, especially after the June 30 revolution in Egypt, which toppled the group from power.

To escape regional pressure, Hamas announced in 2017 a new political document, with a first goal to declare that there was no association between Hamas and the international organization of the Brotherhood.

The first is the presence of former Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Meshaal, the celebration of the international organization’s 90th anniversary of the establishment of the terrorist Brotherhood in Istanbul.

During the meeting, the former head of the political bureau of Hamas spoke praising the founder of the terrorist organization Hassan al-Banna, assuring the audience that there is a clear link between Hamas and the Brotherhood, and this was not reversed, despite the announcement of the movement’s new political document.

Likewise, the movement did not remember that it participated in the meeting held by the terrorist organization in Doha in 2016, and discussed the formation of a political council to unify visions towards the issues of the region, and the presence of Hamas was among its senior men represented by Khaled Mahfal, Ismail Haniyeh and Musa Abu Marzouk.

Also, there is Salah Al-Bardawil, a senior Hamas member who, in statements on his official page on the social networking site Facebook, December 29, 2019, objected the ruling on classifying the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization in Egypt.

The relationship between Hamas and the Brotherhood was not the only controversial one in the history of the political arms of the terrorist groups in Palestine, as the movement witnessed another more controversial relationship with the Syrian regime.

As the Syrian regime came close to ending the internal turmoil, Hamas political member Mahmoud al-Zahar tried to improve the Palestinian movement’s relationship with the Syrian regime, headed by Bashar al-Assad.

Al-Zahar said, “He opened the whole world to us. We were moving in Syria as if we were moving in Palestine. Suddenly, the relationship collapsed against the background of the Syrian crisis.|

On the anniversary of the founding, it is clear that the Palestinian issue was not affected in a clear and direct way except by the presence of Hamas, which brought the terrorist ideology of the mother group in Egypt to the Palestinian interior, and the entire case was lost with it. So will the Palestinian people get their freedom from the movement soon?