Determined to resume its drive to destroy Israel and eliminate all the Jews there, Hamas is using the U.S.-imposed ceasefire in Gaza to reestablish its dictatorship, attacking any Gazan who challenges its rule.
On Jan. 4 Hamas thugs kidnapped Majed Abdeen Abu Nabeel, his mother reports. Abu Nabeel is a supporter of the Palestinian Authority. “I still do not know where my son is,” she posted on Facebook the next day.
As it has since taking control of Gaza in 2006, the Nazi-like group is once again putting its command posts and armories inside hospitals and schools, planning to create more civilian “martyrs” in future battles with Israel it can use as a propaganda weapon.
Moumen al-Natour, who helped lead protests inside Gaza last year where thousands took to the streets demanding “Hamas, out! Out!” told Jusoor News the thug outfit is setting up its operation and “police” centers in civilian facilities in Gaza and in “all the schools.” One of the ways it finances its operations is by taking much of the humanitarian aid delivered in areas under its control and selling it, he said.
The Militant reported last week that a new Hamas document, “Our Narrative … Al-Aqsa Flood: Two Years of Steadfastness and the Will for Liberation,” covers up the truth about the anti-Jewish pogrom that Hamas death squads carried out in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 — from the murder of 1,200 people, mostly Jewish civilians, to the rape and mutilation of dozens of women.
Despite videos that the Hamas thugs themselves took and posted to their internet sites, showing them brutalizing and murdering civilians, the “Narrative” says this is just Israeli lies.
The report claims Hamas is fighting for the Palestinian people and their “sovereignty over their land and self-determination.” Nothing could be further from the truth.
In the 41-page report, Hamas does not mention workers or the working class, or farmers or fishermen. It does not talk about labor or labor unions. It says not a word about women’s rights, religious freedom or democratic rights.
Just like the Nazis in Germany, Hamas uses Jew-hatred to block working people from organizing independently of the capitalist class and fighting for their interests on the road to taking political power.
Hamas is opposed to labor unions organizing workers to fight for their rights and going on strike against capitalist bosses, to small farmers fighting to their right to land and credit. It is opposed to equal rights for women and practices violence against gays. It imposed laws restricting unmarried women from even traveling by themselves without a male overseer.
Despite the massive destruction in Gaza — a result of Hamas basing itself inside and underneath schools, homes, hospitals, mosques and U.N. facilities — there is not a word in the report about rebuilding the territory to meet the needs of Palestinians there.
Hamas could not have prepared for and carried out the Oct. 7 pogroms without financing, training and encouragement from the reactionary regime in Tehran, much less have built the fortified tunnel system through the territory that rivals the size of the New York City subway. Capitalist ruling families in the Middle East — including in Algeria, Sudan, Qatar, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates — also help fund and promote Hamas.
That’s because a dominant wing of the capitalist classes see the demonization of Israel and the fomenting of Jew-hatred as useful in diverting the attention of the working classes in their own countries from the real source of the crisis they face — the capitalist system. Instead they say, “Blame Israel, blame the Jews.”
The last thing the capitalist rulers from Egypt and Turkey to Iraq and beyond want to see is workers of different nationalities and religious beliefs — Arabs, Kurds, Druze, Jews, immigrants — coming together in defense of their common class interests.
That’s why Hamas must be defeated and dismantled. The only force currently able to do so is the Israel Defense Forces.