Hamas won and everyone lost, whatever its decision

The optimistic air that formed around Gaza after the meeting between US President Trump and the Muslim countries has dissipated with the agreement announced after the meeting with the genocidal murderer Netanyahu, and has been replaced by great disappointment. It appears that whoever last speaks with Trump gets the chance to influence him more. Trump's focus on stopping the war in whatever way and by whatever means seems to make it possible for him to make every kind of concession in return. Is the matter that simple? The plan, which he presents with an air of having extracted a great concession from Netanyahu and having run headlong toward peace, satisfies almost all the conditions that Netanyahu has been seeking in vain for two full years.

Hamas will lay down its weapons and hand over all the hostages in its hands within 48 hours, but Israel will withdraw from Gaza not immediately but only in stages. No guarantee, not even a roadmap, has been given as to how and why Israel will withdraw from Gaza once it has been disarmed and has rescued all the hostages in Hamas's hands. In any case, no one has any guarantee as to why and how it would withdraw after obtaining everything it wanted to obtain throughout the whole war.

What will Hamas or Gaza have in hand at the end of the agreement? Nothing. Then why should Hamas accept an agreement text from which it will gain nothing? Because if it does not accept, it will be labeled a stubborn spoiler and will lose all the justification, sympathy and legitimacy it has secured so far before the whole world's public opinion.

In fact that is the summary of the plan. And this is an agreement text very different from what was discussed at the summit held in New York with Trump, under the leadership of President Erdoğan, with the leaders of the Arab-Islamic countries. This is exactly the plan Netanyahu has had in mind from the beginning, and it seems that Netanyahu fobbed this text off on Trump as a successful "compromise" in the direction of peace and solution. According to the agreement reached between Netanyahu and Trmup:

- Israel will not withdraw and the war will not fully end unless Hamas completely hands over its weapons.

- There will be no Palestinian Authority in the transitional period in Gaza. A technocratic committee that the White House will choose to govern Gaza from among independent Palestinians will be chaired by Tony Blair. This will mean a double occupation of Gaza

- All detainees will be handed over within 48 hours of the agreement's entry into force.

- Crossings will be opened for those who want to leave Gaza (voluntary emigration).

– The Hamas leadership will be removed from Gaza voluntarily, and those who want to remain in Gaza will have to surrender.

- If Hamas rejects the terms, it will face a real dilemma (being expelled from Qatar at Trump's request), and its leaders will be assassinated and pursued abroad.

- To demolish what remains of Gaza City and turn it into a model of Rafah and Beit Hanoun (empty, completely destroyed and under Israeli control).

- Hamas's rejection of the offer will light an open green light for Netanyahu, in the eyes of international, Arab and American public opinion, to continue the war, and will give Israel enough time to occupy the rest of the Gaza Strip.

- Hamas, for rejecting the offer, will be held solely responsible for the bloodshed and massacres in Gaza.

Of course there are very bitter and tragic precedents from the past regarding the West's and Israel's disarming of civilians. There is the Srebrenica massacre of July 1995 in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in which nearly 9000 Muslim men, after being disarmed, were handed over to the Serbs by UN officials themselves and sent to their deaths.

There is also the Sabra and Shatila massacre that took place after the Palestinian resistance handed over its weapons in 1982.

Moreover, there is the reality of Netanyahu, a war criminal, a criminal against humanity, a genocidal figure, who these days has not kept to a single word he has given. The plan's only guarantee is his word, yet if one were asked for the single name in the world who should not be trusted right now, his own name would come to the fore.

Indeed, even before leaving the US, he stated openly that he would not remain faithful to this agreement announced with Trump: "Instead of being isolated because of Hamas, we reversed the situation and isolated Hamas. The entire world, including the Arab and Islamic world, accepted the plan we developed together with Trump. According to the plan, we will release all Israeli detainees while maintaining an army presence in most areas of the Gaza Strip. We did not accept a Palestinian state and it is not included in this plan. We stated that we are against the establishment of a Palestinian state."

Or will Tony Blair be trusted in this process? He is one of those chiefly responsible for the deaths of at least one million Iraqis and the dragging of the entire region into chaos, having deceived the whole world's public opinion in pursuit of the lie that there were chemical weapons in Iraq. What could Tony Blair, who for the last 15 years has been providing consultancy services to the region's dictators in order to strangle the most hopeful developments the region has experienced, called the Arab Spring, bring to the people of Gaza?

The agreement announced by Trump, following Netanyahu, is in fact a declaration of blackmail by Israel against Hamas by taking the people of Gaza hostage. The only thing that could persuade Hamas to this agreement is to stop the death raining down on its own people, the blood of its own people flowing, and to keep alive the people being broken by hunger.

Otherwise, for them this agreement is worse than death. Until now they have given epic lessons to all humanity about their way of looking at life. Every day, every hour, in a way that shames all humanity, they have shown that their own lives would not be a subject of bargaining over a dishonorable surrender.

But now, and for quite some time, the occupying forces are threatening them with the lives of the civilian population of Gaza.

The same threat was repeated in Trump's words as well. If Hamas does not surrender, that is, does not hand over its weapons and the hostages, he will have caused a more comprehensive genocide to be carried out against the people of Gaza. Just look at this insolent and arrogant language. Holding Hamas, not Israel, the perpetrator, responsible for a genocide that they openly announce with threats will be carried out.

The Arab countries too, by accepting and congratulating this agreement text, which has strayed quite far from the text they had agreed upon, showed that they consent to it. In any case it was no secret at all that some countries were secretly expecting Israel to finish off Hamas.

Even so, what Hamas will choose in this vise will be its own decision. We are witnesses to the impasse in which, and by whom, it has been left. We are also witnesses that they have waged the noblest struggle to date in the name of Muslim honor, dignity and freedom, and we respect to the end the decision they will make from now on.

They had long since announced anyway that they had withdrawn from the administration of Gaza. Whatever their decision, and whoever governs Gaza, we also know that it is not possible to disarm and destroy Hamas. Because Hamas is Gaza itself, it is Palestine itself.

Hamas won, the whole world lost. Whatever its decision.