Not an Effort but a Sin Worth Accountability

The mistakes of Hamas are not misguided efforts that came in a national and Islamic context, and therefore, we cannot find an excuse for them or apply to them the hadith attributed to the Prophet Muhammad: "When a ruler rules and strives, if he is correct, he has two rewards, and if he errs, he has one reward," assuming the hadith is authentic.

This is because Hamas is not authorized to govern the Palestinian people, nor did it consult the people when it launched its torrent or when it tied itself to an unnational external agenda. Therefore, what it has done is outside the true concept of jihad and ijtihad and outside the national context, and its actions are crimes against the Palestinian people that require accountability from the people, in addition to divine reckoning on the Day of Judgment for them and for those who followed them.
Hamas' sins did not start with its responsibility for Israel's war of genocide and cleansing in the Gaza Strip and all the miseries our people suffer in the Strip and even in the West Bank, but it preceded that, the most important of which are:

1- It all began when Israel permitted the establishment of the Islamic Association in the Gaza Strip in 1973, headed by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, at a time when the confrontation between Israel and the PLO was at its fiercest and the organization was accused of terrorism by Tel Aviv and Washington, which failed to stop the guerrilla action of the PLO factions or impact the popular support surrounding it and its internationally recognized political achievements. The plan was to create internal strife to weaken the PLO by manufacturing an opposing group with an unnational project that is antagonistic to the organization, in order to scatter its national efforts and create internal discord. Thus, the Islamic Association of the Brotherhood was formed, followed by the establishment of Hamas in 1987 and facilitating its armament.

2- The second crime: when it staged a coup against the authority and separated Gaza from the West Bank with Israeli support, while Qatar was the sponsor of the division, continuously supporting Hamas with media and financial aid through the funds carried by Ambassador al-‘Amadi, which passed through Israel with its consent, something Netanyahu himself acknowledged.

3- The third crime: when it linked and mortgaged the national cause to the Muslim Brotherhood and then to Iran and its axis.

4- The fourth crime: when it adopted an Islamic ideology that is hostile to national identity and culture, creating social division and a culture of hatred and resentment even among the people of the Gaza Strip, leading to a Hamas society in opposition to the rest of the people, a division that extended to other arenas in the West Bank, Jordan, and the diaspora.

5- The fifth crime: dragging the Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip, into direct military confrontations with the enemy without any national strategy or rational considerations of the balance of power or concern for the consequences of these confrontations in terms of death, destruction, and devastation to the citizens, the latest being the ambiguous Al-Aqsa Flood.

6- The sixth crime: facilitating the passage of the Zionist project based on settlement and the displacement of Palestinians to replace them with Jews, which is happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, leading the people to lose the most important card of strength and the most crucial weapon of resistance, which is the stabilization of the people on their land.

7- The seventh crime: distorting the right and principle of resisting the occupation, as the way it practices resistance has distorted it and made people detest it both inside Palestine and outside, making (the resistance fighters) appear as mercenary groups igniting for the benefit of unnational agendas, whether of the Muslim Brotherhood or Iran.

8- The eighth crime: distorting the history of the Palestinian national struggle and denying the sacrifices of the Palestinian people over a hundred years, beginning with the Buraq Uprising in 1922, the Great Arab Revolt in 1936, which lasted until 1939, and the sacrifices of the fighters during the 1948 war, led by the fighter Abdul Qader Al-Husseini, while ignoring the struggles and sacrifices of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) and the factions of the PLO since the mid-1960s, considering that Palestinian struggle only began with the rise of Hamas in the 1980s of this century.

9- The ninth crime: its offense to the Palestinian people by claiming that Palestinians only knew true Islam with Hamas, especially in the Gaza Strip, and thus excommunicated everyone who is not Hamas or opposes it.

10- The tenth crime: distorting and offending true Islam, through the ignorant fatwas and rulings issued by its scholars that were closer to heretical religious blasphemy.

11- The eleventh crime: reinforcing internal Palestinian divisions and straining relations with many Arab states that classified Hamas as a terrorist organization.