'Hamas once saved me from a kidnapping in Gaza.'
One influential military figure in Hamas was always resolutely opposed to any kind of peace with what Hamas insists on calling the "Zionist Entity."
The Al Qassem Brigades were opposed to the peace process embraced by Yassir Arafat, then-leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the 1993 Oslo Accords that were supposed to pave the way to a two-state solution of a new Palestine living in peace alongside Israel. The PA pays the wages for the public sector in Gaza, and this summer polls showed that support for the PA, which only rules on the West Bank, was nonetheless around 70 per cent in Gaza.Palestinian children walk past a mural painted in a house destroyed in fighting with Israel in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 8, 2023.
The tighter the Israeli and Egyptian control over Gaza's borders – the more Hamas developed military means to fight back. But his emotions were leavened with zealous cunning. And the first, and most important deception, was to transform the Israeli perception of Hamas. All the while, though, Hamas was plotting a massive assault that would end any perception in Israel, and beyond, that the Islamic Resistance had lost its strategic mojo.
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