Hamas game in Gaza is over

By mohssen Arishie

Like roast turkey’s, Hamas platter has finally been laid on the dining table. In addition to Israel, dinners include the US, EU, the Palestinian authority of President Mahmoud Abbas Abu-Mazen, Egypt, and the so-called moderate Arab states (Arab Gulf countries). Also carefully selected for the event are pro-US allies or states in Asia or Africa, which have singed hair and bruised noses, such as Russia, China, and India. Israel is seated at the head of the dinning table; the UN’s Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appears to have been helplessly forced to sit next to Israel. Although the guests display visible signs of sharpened appetite, it is Israel alone which is plunging the knife and fork indulgently deep into Hamas. With the US being the exception, other guests seem to be muttering something like prayer under their breath—not to give blessings to Israel; rather, they are praying to God that Israel would quench its apparently insatiable appetite as quickly as possible, and before blood soaks through the tablecloth and onto their shirts. This is because unlike roast turkey, Hamas, together with other birds (Palestinian children and women) is being served raw; and Israel’s plunges are, deliberately or unavoidably, misaimed. The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abas Abu-Mazen, who is given a seat at a remote corner in the dining room, is biting the tips of his fingers nervously. He is appealing to Allah (God) that Israel would aim its lunges into the platter accurately.

The US would from time to time prod indecently Ban Ki-moon, who is no more fortunate than a dazed old uncle, in his ribs to serve wine to the self-indulgent Israel when it gets loud hiccups.
Signs of sympathy may be the first impression, which hits spectators, such as Qatar and Turkey, who are peeping through the keyhole. They are told by the ushers standing at the door that sincere feelings to innocent birds on the platter is highly acknowledged. But, the ushers assert to the emotionally-tortured spectators that the chief dinners inside would scowl if they offer sympathy to Hamas, whose image is tainted, internationally and regionally, by scars, which disappoint plastic surgery talents.
To begin with, Hamas movement comes high up on the world’s list of terrorist organizations compiled jointly by the US and EU. This is because Hamas wields a serious threat to the Jewish state. Washington has emphatically and unequivocally pledged that the security of the Jewish state is an essential and inseparable part of the US national security. To the disgrace of its security agencies, Israel has discovered too late that Hamas has dugs dozens of tunnels to launch its juvenile rockets on Israeli cities.
The image of Hamas also has deep scars regionally. The movement’s leaders belong to the Muslim Brotherhood’s International League. After cutting MB’s head in Cairo, it is still wagging its tail menacingly in the backyard (Gaza). Cairo overthrew the MB from power on July 3, 2013; and mass arrests of its leaders and powerful men were followed. Hamas’ barons, such as the controversial Khaled Mashaal, Chief of the movement’s political bureau, face criminal charges in Cairo. They are accused of conspiring with MB’s powerful men, such as Khairat Al-Shatter, to instigate instability in the country to bring back disgraced President Mohamed Morsi to power. Cairo has declared that MB is a terrorist organization. There is now a real war between Egyptian security authorities and MB’s stooges and quislings. President Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi has made a pledge that he weeds out MB and all radical Muslim groups. Accordingly, a movement (Hamas) loyal to MB in Egypt’s backyard is a tortuous nightmare. Early this year, local press was overwhelmed with a deluge of intercepted phone calls between Al-Shatter and Mashaal before and after ousting MB and its President. Hamas barons are also accused of opening training camps for militants active in Sinai and supplying them with weapons and logistic aid.
Abu-Mazen is being tortured by the tragic memory of a bloody coup Hamas launched against his men in Gaza in 2007. Abu-Mazen was forced to withdraw with his tail between his legs. Hamas fighters killed his men, and attacked and ransacked and torched his Fatah’s offices and other facilities. Abu-Mazen was humiliated and disgraced, politically and diplomatically, when his rivals (Hamas movement) declared the independence of Gaza. Under any circumstance, since it revealed its anti-Zionism and anti-Jewish state resistance more than two decades, Hamas’s sole and unchallenged victory has been its seizure of Gaza and the dismissal of Fatah fighters. Also since Hamas declared the independence of Gaza, Abu-Mazen stopped walking steadily to the final settlement negotiations in different capitals in the world. Abu-Mazen is now looking like a one-legged man limping to the negotiating table over the final settlement with the Israelis.