He writes: “Dancing on the graves of martyrs.”

Writer: Hafez Al-Barghouti

Before the 2006 elections, President Abu Mazen was subjected to intense international pressure to include Hamas in the elections, from the United States, Europe, and Qatar, even though the elections took place under the Oslo Accords, which required recognition.

The president yielded to these pressures, which were accompanied by economic and financial threats from donor countries. The late Abu Alaa Qurei, who was Prime Minister, and others tried to prevent Hamas’ participation except in accordance with the terms of the Oslo Accords, but the president refused.

After Hamas' victory, which the writer describes as a result of the dispersion of Fatah votes and candidates, the countries that had pressed for its inclusion turned into blocking countries and boycotted the Hamas government. We were forced to enter the stage of oil and thyme, in preparation for the coup against the authority in Gaza, despite the president’s diligence in providing it with financial aid, while Iran disbursed $250 million to it, according to what was revealed in a discussion within the Iranian Shura Council at the time.

Mahmoud Al-Zahar, as Foreign Minister, returned from Indonesia, Malaysia, Iran and Syria with suitcases of dollars. Even Abu Zuhri, who is currently investing in Algeria and Mauritania, would return via Rafah with pots filled with euro juice and dollar soup, and when they were searched by the Egyptians, they were not confiscated. While Qatar sent dollar bags through Lod Airport, they were transported with the approval of Netanyahu's office.

Nearly twenty years have passed and we have been in the circle of impossible reconciliation. Whenever an agreement was reached, Iran or the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood intervened to thwart it. Hamas used this dialogue of the deaf as a justification for its existence and the consolidation of its authority. It tried to extend its influence to the camps in the West Bank, and we witnessed the fate of the empty and destroyed camps in the north.

Now, the Hanafushi-Halmantishist scene is being repeated, and we find the European Union demanding the elections, and Trump’s State Department denouncing their postponement, and even Israel itself, and they are not looking for the occupation’s reason for preventing them, by preventing the Elections Commission from entering Gaza and banning them in Jerusalem, in addition to other field obstacles.

Then we wonder about the failed electoral dialogue in Cairo between the factions: Is it legally and politically permissible to rehabilitate Hamas after the Gaza disaster, and the calamity we are witnessing in the West Bank? Will what it inflicted on the case and its people go unaccounted for or held accountable?

This movement, according to its historical principles as an arm of the Brotherhood, believes that the interest of the organization is more important than the interest of the nation. Therefore, we find its leaders in their statements during the war belittling the extent of the victims, devastation, destruction, abuse and ongoing torture of our people in Gaza, according to what Khalil Al-Hayya, Abu Marzouk, Khaled Meshaal and others stated, as if what happened to Gaza and is currently happening in the West Bank is merely harm that will go away, as Meshaal said one day.

Currently, you find Hamas supporters holding the Oslo Accords responsible for what is happening in Gaza, and ignoring that the occupation voluntarily withdrew from Gaza in 2005, and Gaza was destined to enter its golden age, but they carried out an evil coup and plunged it into hell by kidnapping one soldier, resulting in the martyrdom of 1,500 civilians, and attacks on Gaza continued.

What is worse is that all of Hamas’s battles in Gaza were aimed at separating Gaza, which is Netanyahu’s strategic wish. Communications were not interrupted between him and Hamas, even during the 2008 aggression and beyond, and Ghazi Hamad frequently visited the Ministry of War in Tel Aviv. Even during the 2008 aggression, Fathi Hammad, a missile expert and breeder of poultry and rabbits in the evacuated settlements, and currently an investor in Turkey, asked to remove one of his sick daughters from Gaza, and an occupation helicopter transported her.

Hamas is currently holding dialogues with America with the aim of preserving its existence, as it transforms into a Trump emirate, after it was an emirate as the nucleus of the Islamic caliphate, according to Al-Zahar.