The moment the war is won in Gaza, Syria and Afghanistan

The war waged in Gaza by the Zionist force, with the backing of the entire "civilized" world, revealed an asymmetry of power beyond comparison. For 471 days the peoples of the world heard the exact opposite of every story told until now, and watched a film in which the roles had been distributed in exactly the opposite way. In the genocide stories told by the Hollywood and Netflix film industries, the Jews appeared on stage not as the victims but as the foremost among the oppressors. Without doubt this was one of the goals Hamas set out with on October 7, and it reached this goal with a very clear result. Not only in this respect: against this asymmetric imbalance of power, in achieving its goals too, the outcome at the end of the day was extremely asymmetric, this time in Hamas's favor. This outcome was an indisputable victory for Hamas, and a great defeat and loss for Israel and all the powers behind it.

Those who look at the number of martyrs on the Palestinian side and the state of the ruined cities and spin from them a story of success fitting that outcome fail to understand this: in the asymmetric war experiences of liberation movements against powerful colonial and occupying forces, defeat exists only if the will to resist, struggle and defy has vanished among the oppressed peoples. In that case defeat means accepting the enemy's orders and terms, while victory is nothing other than preventing the goals of the enemy's war and aggression from being achieved.

Resistance wins when it prevents its enemy's victory; it is defeated when it follows in the enemy's footsteps; and when it parrots the enemy's story and narratives, it has been vanquished. For example, defeat is what happened when Germany and Japan signed instruments of surrender and raised the white flag at the end of the Second World War and began to follow the same path as the United States. Unfortunately, we too, as the Ottomans, experienced this defeat on October 31, 1918. The British, Italian and French forces won a clear victory over the Ottomans, because the Ottomans opened the doors to the enemy by signing the armistice. And then there is Alija Izetbegovic's legendary equation of defeat and victory: defeat does not come through lost positions before the enemy; it comes when you come to resemble the enemy.

The contrasting scenes we see today, especially in the prisoner exchange, show that the Qassam Brigades are far, far from resembling their enemies and that they display their own superior moral and spiritual criteria and style in a way that leaves the whole world in admiration.

In terms of the goals we have discussed before, Hamas has achieved all the goals it announced through the mouth of Abu Ubaida: it exposed to the whole world Israel's face, which consists of nothing but propaganda. It dragged it down to a morally abject point in the world. It brought all the injustices, cruelties and human rights violations of the occupation onto the agenda of the entire world. It kept repeating that all of Israel's enormous war power would not be able to overcome it, and it turned out exactly as it said. In the end Israel could not even come close to the goal of finishing Hamas and rescuing the hostages that it had declared at the start of its attacks. Hamas made up for the members it lost during the war within a short time, and as the war dragged on it kept displaying its operational capabilities and capacity in a far stronger manner. Moreover, Israel could not rescue any of the hostages other than those Hamas released through the agreement. Israeli officials, with their usual arrogance, talked very big, but the higher they raised the bar, the greater the debacle they suffered beneath it.

Now, after the agreement, they are demonstrating with a show of strength that they had prepared very thoroughly in advance for the path they follow. In this scene, in which every detail from media management to the stage set was thought out during the handover, they are in fact mocking Israel's claim to be a state, and they show that they themselves stand upright. These images are read all over the world as signs of a clear victory and a very strong moral superiority in favor of Hamas and the Palestinian cause, and even of Muslims.

The smiling faces, the well-kept appearance, the gestures and the expressions of the Israeli women hostages, brought onto a platform as if onto an Olympic podium, together with the hundreds of Hamas soldiers surrounding them, create an iconic image. Israel will have to work very hard in the coming years to cope with this image. The stories of the humane treatment the Israeli hostages received in the hands of the Qassam Brigades will be told in comparison, within the same story, with the treatment Palestinians receive in Israel's dungeons. Resul Tosun of the Star newspaper puts the full stop on this scene by asking who behaved like a state and who like a terrorist organization

as a question.

In fact, in the way the Qassam Brigades conducted this war there was, from the very beginning, a will, courage and nobility hard to believe, and a planning in which every detail had been thought out. The media presentations of the Qassam operations showed that a great communication mechanism and an extremely professional perception management were at work. This professionalism and this success of course stem first of all from its ability to act independently, and from conviction, devotion and unparalleled discipline in its view of life.

It is a discipline such that even when the leader falls, it can continue as if nothing had happened, with a leadership displaying the same mission and will. We know that Israel rejoiced like children at the martyrdom of Yahya Sinwar. But Sinwar's was such a martyrdom that it caused not the slightest slackening or collapse of morale among the Hamas mujahideen, thus giving them the opportunity to show Israel that it would not win this resistance either through assassinations of their leaders or through the excessively destructive and incendiary weapons it trusts so much. Moreover, such a legendary leader also found the opportunity to show that he did not set himself apart from the people martyred throughout the war, and that he was not a political opportunist morally using his fighters. The Palestinian Cause, united with Islamic principle and morality, is not a struggle that provides worldly advantages to certain war elites; it is a cause that everyone, from top to bottom, believes in equally and for which everyone can equally lay down his life. One way of seeing that what has been said here is exactly so is to look at how this situation is perceived now in the Israeli media.

Furthermore, let us not fail to mention that in recent days this model of victory has repeated itself with the same parameters not only in Gaza but in Syria and Afghanistan as well.

This requires us to recall that the reference that inspired the people of Gaza and their valiant fighters, the Qassam Brigades, is the very same one: the Islamic morality based on the Quran and the Sunnah.