BASSAM TAWIL
"A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders," AP reported on April 25, 2024.
The Hamas official would not have dared to utter similar nonsense to an Arab media outlet. He knows that here his lies are directed at English-speaking audiences, who tend to swallow whole the baloney spouted by Israel's enemies.
The Hamas official wants everyone to believe that his group is ready to stop killing Jews for a period of five years "or more" if it gets the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem. He just forgot to mention that there was an official truce between Israel and Hamas until October 7, when the terror group Hamas initiated the current war.
The Hamas official also forgot to mention that Hamas has repeatedly violated several truces and ceasefire agreements reached with Israel over the past 17 years. The truces and ceasefires were always used by Hamas to regroup and rearm in preparation for the next round of attacking Israel.
The claim that Hamas will convert into a political party is also laughable. Hamas will never abandon its weapons or dismantle its armed group, especially after the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Hamas will not lay down its weapons; it is committed to continuing the Jihad (holy war) against Israel, regardless of whether Israel ever withdraws from the West Bank and east Jerusalem or not.
The political leadership of Hamas is also undoubtedly aware that without its weapons, other rival factions such as Fatah would instantly seize the opportunity to get rid of Hamas.
Al-Hayya said that Hamas would accept "a fully sovereign Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the return of Palestinian refugees in accordance with the international resolutions." If that happens, he said, the group's military wing would dissolve. Hamas, he added, will then turn into a political party.
The "return of Palestinian refugees" means flooding Israel with more than five million Arabs, most of whom are currently living in "refugee camps" run by the United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA). This would turn the Jews living in Israel, which already has two million Arab citizens into a minority in their own country. Israel, in other words, will cease to exist as the homeland of the Jewish people.
What Hamas is actually saying is that it wants two Palestinian states - one inside Israel, and the second in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem.
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