Debunking the Myth That “israel” Created Hamas
In this video clip, Vanessa Beeley talks about the different Palestinian resistance factions that are fighting alongside Hamas (Al-Qassam Brigades):
Newsweek 2023: Not Only Hamas: Eight Factions at War With Israel in Gaza
To support Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and despite any ideological or political differences, thousands of fighters from four other Palestinian factions have been fighting against the Israeli occupation forces in Gaza since last October.
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“Currently, we are all facing the same catastrophe(…) The Israeli enemy does not differentiate between a Palestinian who follows Fatah and another who belongs to Hamas. For him, everyone is a target. The Israelis want to eradicate the Palestinian people, without exception,” the officials said.
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“Although the Al-Qassam Brigades and the Al-Quds Brigades are the strongest on the ground, fighters from other factions joining the fight has created a balance not only on the field but also politically, especially since Israel has always bragged since the beginning of its war that it is only fighting Hamas, which it described as similar to ISIS, to justify its crimes against all the Palestinian people,” Wasef Erekat, a Ramallah-based Palestinian military expert, told TNA.
“The presence of diversity in the fighters’ ideological and political backgrounds and tactics in confronting the Israeli occupation prevents Israel from being able to commit even more crimes against the Palestinians and debunks their claim that they are only fighting ‘extremists’ and Hamas,” Erekat said.
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“Israel and the United States have long tried to stamp out Palestinian armed resistance and hold Hamas fully responsible for the 7 October attack. They ignored the violations against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza for decades and considered the 7 October attack a ‘crime against humanity’ and mobilised international and, unfortunately, some of the Arab opinion against Hamas,” remarked Iyad al-Qarra, a Gaza-based Palestinian analyst.
In this clip, Vanessa talks about Hamas having been in Syria, fighting alongside Al-Qaeda, and how they’ve changed in the last five years:
BBC 2013: Hamas and Fatah in unity talks, says Khaled Meshaal
In relation to Syria – a long-time ally of Hamas – Mr Meshaal said the party had been forced out of Damascus because it disagreed with how President Bashar al-Assad was dealing with the conflict.
Haaretz 2017: Hamas Elects New Politburo Chief: Haniyeh Replaces Meshal as Political Leader
Reuters 2021: Hamas elects former chief Meshaal to head diaspora office
Meshaal, 64, who survived an Israeli assassination attempt in 1997, was head of the political bureau until 2017 when he was replaced by Ismail Haniyeh, 59, who is based in Gaza.
Although Hamas’s power base is in Gaza, which it has controlled since 2007, it also has many followers among refugees and others in the Middle East and elsewhere. In 2012 Meshaal angered close Hamas ally Syria when he left Damascus because of Iranian-backed President Bashar al-Assad’s war against rebels who were Sunni Muslims, like Hamas.
Reuters 2022: Hamas leaders meet Assad in Damascus to ‘turn the page’
AP 2022: Militant Hamas group back in Damascus after years of tension
Guess they haven’t changed, after all.
Hamas ‘congratulates’ Syria after fall of Assad government (archived)
Max Blumenthal:
China tells ICJ: Palestinians have the right to use ‘armed force’ against Israel
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The Palestinians’ inalienable right to resist
In December 1982, following Israel’s devastating invasion of Lebanon six months earlier, the United Nations General Assembly passed resolution A/RES/37/43 concerning the ‘[i]mportance of the universal realization of the right of peoples to self-determination’. It endorsed, without qualification, ‘the inalienable right’ of the Palestinian people to ‘self-determination, national independence, territorial integrity, national unity and sovereignty without outside interference’, and reaffirmed the legitimacy of their struggle for those rights ‘by all available means, including armed struggle’. It also strongly condemned Israel’s ‘expansionist activities in the Middle East’ and ‘continual bombing of Palestinian civilians’, both said to ‘constitute a serious obstacle to the realization of the self-determination and independence of the Palestinian people’. In the four decades since then, Israel’s violence against the Palestinian people and its colonisation of their land has not ceased. Up to the present moment, all over historical Palestine, from the Gaza Strip to Sheikh Jarrah, Palestinians are still under that same occupation, subject to suffocating control over virtually every aspect of their lives – and the sadistic, unaccountable violence of the Zionist state.
Why doesn’t Amnesty recognize Palestinians’ right to resist?
[2014] Beware: Israel the Eager Provocateur. Is Hamas Israel’s Creation?
Marxist’s takes:
Stalin: Armed Insurrection and our Tactics
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