{"id":7483,"date":"2024-04-02T17:54:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=7483"},"modified":"2024-04-02T17:55:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:55:57","slug":"hamas-dismantling-the-dilemmas-of-governance-and-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=7483","title":{"rendered":"Hamas: Dismantling the Dilemmas of Governance and Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Author:<\/b> Belal Shobaki<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Affiliation: <\/b>Hebron University, Palestine<\/span><\/p>

Organization\/Publisher:<\/b> Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network<\/span><\/p>

Date\/Place:<\/b> September 30, 2021\/New York, USA<\/span><\/p>

Type of Literature:<\/b> Opinion Article<\/span><\/p>

Word Count:<\/b> 2693<\/span><\/p>

Link:<\/b>https:\/\/al-shabaka.org\/commentaries\/hamas-and-the-dilemmas-of-representation-and-curtailment\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Keywords:<\/i><\/b> PFLP, PLO, Hamas, Second Intifada, Cairo Declaration.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>

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Brief:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>

This commentary identifies the key dilemmas that Hamas reckons with as it <\/span>participates in mainstream politics<\/span> as a means <\/span>to strengthen the Palestinian resistance movement and also reinforce the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the face of its rising external pressures. At the end of the Second Intifada, Hamas expressed its inclination to participate in the Palestinian Authority\u2019s municipal and legislative elections,<\/span> eventually\u00a0winning many electoral contests. Previously, Hamas participated in the 2006 legislative elections, which was made conceivable by several factors, including the internal Palestinian dialogue that culminated in the\u00a0Cairo Declaration, the unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, and the de-escalation of the Second Intifada. At the time, Hamas worked to depict itself to Palestinian voters as a feasible substitute, capable of rescuing the PA from its botched policies, corruption, and high rates of unemployment. Since then, Hamas has progressively treated resistance as a pull to ease the siege on Gaza. Since it has instituted as a military resistance movement, Hamas has aimed at\u00a0corroding Israel\u2019s occupation through a sustained war of attrition. Since Israel has imposed its brutal and illegal blockade on Gaza in 2007, Hamas has increasingly treated resistance as leverage to ease the siege on Gaza and to secure the most basic survival requirements for Palestinians in Gaza. As such, it has become even more of a priority for Hamas to expand the forms and aims of resistance to ensure that the occupation and siege of Gaza do not end on terms set by the Israeli regime. To this end, Hamas has taken three measures: firstly, it supported popular resistance in Gaza through the\u00a02018 Great March of Return\u00a0as a less costly form of resistance against Israeli occupation forces without forsaking military resistance.\u00a0Secondly, Hamas urged its members and supporters in the West Bank to\u00a0support all forms of popular resistance.\u00a0And finally,<\/span> Hamas sought to harness its military resistance in Gaza to serve Palestinian national causes, and not only to ease the siege.\u00a0Hamas was efficacious in intensifying its forms and aims of resistance\u00a0to the extent that it\u00a0garnered the support\u00a0of millions of Palestinians of all walks of life and political backgrounds. Certainly, it has become the pillar of contemporary Palestinian struggle and a framework that exceeds intellectual and ideological differences.\u00a0Nonetheless, Hamas will be incapable to connect with the PLO and underwrite its reform unless new conditions emerge that limit Fatah\u2019s power, or compel it to hold new options that include Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).<\/span><\/p>

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By: Maryam Khan, CIGA Research Associate<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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