For Desperate Palestinians In Gaza, Rage Has Turned Into Suicidal Despair

• For Desperate Palestinians In Gaza, Rage Has Turned Into Suicidal Despair
  by Mohammed Shehada, https://forward.com/
  Ever since President Donald Trump’s declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, there have been warnings of a mass intifada, including recent speculations that a larger crisis is brewing. Israel’s military chief warned that Gaza is on the brink of collapse. And Sami Obeid, an analyst for Gaza’s Al-Manar radio station, told the L.A. Times that the protests could escalate into something far worse.
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  “People feel that if Hamas doesn’t solve our problems, we’ll come to the fence and lift it,” Obeid said. “Instead of one or two hundred people, you’ll have entire families with their kids, thousands of people who have no other option.”
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  But the Friday protests are not the site of rage. Instead, they are a place full of despair.
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  Men do congregate on the Gaza/Israel border. But street protests in Gaza have long been muted, for a simple reason: They are being thwarted by Hamas. Whether through organizing the protests themselves and turning them into staged, meaningless performances against PA president Mahmoud Abbas, or by actively kidnapping, intimidating and silencing “untrustworthy” activist co-organizers, Hamas has been steadily and effectively quashing the expression of Gaza’s rage.
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  As a source high up in Hamas told me, the Gazan masses “cannot be trusted to protest on their own without leaning to one side against the other.” Even if the crowds were unaffiliated with Fatah, Hamas fears that people are so frustrated with the entire status quo that protests would undermine Hamas’s authority. And it’s a status quo that’s rapidly deteriorating. Food and supplies are in short supply, and bank accounts are dwindling to nothing. There is little to no electricity some days. People are dying waiting for permits to enter Israel for medical attention.
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  And yet, despite this, Hamas has done a good job of muting the anger and rage many feel. Instead, it is despair that brings young people to the border. Rather than a place to display their anger, the border has become a place where, denied a future, Palestinian youth flirt with death.
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• Hamas, of course, is a creation of Zionist ‘666’ Israel the Satanic counterfeit. It is controlled opposition to portray Palestinians as terrorists, so that the Synagogue of Satan can continue to commit genocide and ethnic cleansing against them.
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• Hamas is a Creation of Mossad ! 
  by Hassane Zerouky, http://www.globalresearch.ca/
  Thanks to the Mossad, Israel’s “Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks”, the Hamas was allowed to reinforce its presence in the occupied territories. Meanwhile, Arafat’s Fatah Movement for National Liberation as well as the Palestinian Left were subjected to the most brutal form of repression and intimidation
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  Let us not forget that it was Israel, which in fact created Hamas. According to Zeev Sternell, historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Israel thought that it was a smart ploy to push the Islamists against the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO)”.
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   Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the Islamist movement in Palestine, returning from Cairo in the seventies, established an Islamic charity association. Prime Minister Golda Meir, saw this as a an opportunity to counterbalance the rise of Arafat’s Fatah movement. .According to the Israeli weekly Koteret Rashit (October 1987), “The Islamic associations as well as the university had been supported and encouraged by the Israeli military authority” in charge of the (civilian) administration of the West Bank and Gaza. “They [the Islamic associations and the university] were authorized to receive money payments from abroad.”
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  The Islamists set up orphanages and health clinics, as well as a network of schools, workshops which created employment for women as well as system of financial aid to the poor. And in 1978, they created an “Islamic University” in Gaza. “The military authority was convinced that these activities would weaken both the PLO and the leftist organizations in Gaza.” At the end of 1992, there were six hundred mosques in Gaza. Thanks to Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad (Israel’s Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks) , the Islamists were allowed to reinforce their presence in the occupied territories. Meanwhile, the members of Fatah (Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine) and the Palestinian Left were subjected to the most brutal form of repression.
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   In 1984, Ahmed Yassin was arrested and condemned to twelve years in prison, after the discovery of a hidden arms cache. But one year later, he was set free and resumed his activities. And when the Intifada (‘uprising’) began, in October 1987, which took the Islamists by surprise, Sheik Yassin responded by creating the Hamas (The Islamic Resistance Movement): “God is our beginning, the prophet our model, the Koran our constitution”, proclaims article 7 of the charter of the organization.
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   Ahmed Yassin was in prison when, the Oslo accords (Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government) were signed in September 1993. The Hamas had rejected Oslo outright. But at that time, 70% of Palestinians had condemned the attacks on Israeli civilians. Yassin did everything in his power to undermine the Oslo accords. Even prior to Prime Minister Rabin’s death, he had the support of the Israeli government. The latter was very reluctant to implement the peace agreement.
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  The Hamas then launched a carefully timed campaign of attacks against civilians, one day before the meeting between Palestinian and Israeli negotiators, regarding the formal recognition of Israel by the National Palestinian Council. These events were largely instrumental in the formation of a Right wing Israeli government following the May 1996 elections.
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   Quite unexpectedly, Prime Minister Netanyahu ordered Sheik Ahmed Yassin to be released from prison (“on humanitarian grounds”) where he was serving a life sentence. Meanwhile, Netanyahu, together with President Bill Clinton, was putting pressure on Arafat to control the Hamas. In fact, Netanyahu knew that he could rely, once more, on the Islamists to sabotage the Oslo accords. Worse still: after having expelled Yassin to Jordan, Prime Minister Netanyahu allowed him to return to Gaza, where he was welcomed triumphantly as a hero in October 1997.
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   Arafat was helpless in the face of these events. Moreover, because he had supported Saddam Hussein during the1991 Gulf war, (while the Hamas had cautiously abstained from taking sides), the Gulf states decided to cut off their financing of the Palestinian Authority. Meanwhile, between February and April 1998, Sheik Ahmad Yassin was able to raise several hundred million dollars, from those same countries. The the budget of The Hamas was said to be greater than that of the Palestinian Authority. These new sources of funding enabled the Islamists to effectively pursue their various charitable activities. It is estimated that one Palestinian out of three is the recipient of financial aid from the Hamas. And in this regard, Israel has done nothing to curb the inflow of money into the occupied territories.
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  The Hamas had built its strength through its various acts of sabotage of the peace process, in a way which was compatible with the interests of the Israeli government. In turn, the latter sought in a number of ways, to prevent the application of the Oslo accords. In other words, Hamas was fulfilling the functions for which it was originally created: to prevent the creation of a Palestinian State. And in this regard, Hamas and Ariel Sharon, see eye to eye; they are exactly on the same wave length.
  

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