Farce: from a ‘safe corridor’ to link the entity’s two wings to another for Hamas’s exit

By Hassan Asfour
One of the features discussed about the end of the Gaza war is the condition that Hamas officials leave the Gaza Strip (both military and political figures), and that demand has become clearer with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu saying he is considering granting Hamas leaders a “safe corridor” to leave the Strip.

In principle, there will be no end to the genocidal war in Gaza without Hamas — as an organization and through its members — leaving the political scene. This is not because they constitute a “threat” to the state of the entity, as some try to present it, but because their functional role in the national cause has ended, making them unnecessary (as has happened in the experience of using the mother group). Moreover, they have become a banner of “Netanyahu’s personal victory,” which makes this a necessary condition.

What is politically ironic is that the Declaration of Principles — Oslo 1993, an agreement that Hamas allied with Netanyahu and Sharon to break and prevent from being implemented, contained an explicit clause about a safe corridor between the West Bank and Gaza, to cement a geographically and politically unified wing of the “remnants of the homeland.” It began to be implemented in 1998 for a period, stopped for Palestinian reasons, and then was halted definitively after the Barak-Sharon conspiracy to destroy the national entity in 2000.
Thirty years after signing the interim agreement, which defined the linkage of the West Bank to Gaza as a single geographic unit under a unified Palestinian legislature, the leader who launched the first political war against the Oslo agreement now announces he is considering giving Hamas and its leaders a “safe corridor” — but to leave the Strip permanently.

“Netanyahu’s safe grant” for Hamas leaders, whatever their subsequent behavior, is only the embodiment of the ultimate irony led by the Islamist movement. Not only was it the locomotive of the enemy’s project to destroy the primary national entity, but it also fully distorted the trajectory of national action — from struggle toward return inside the homeland to collective exit — a process that practically began with its dark coup in June 2007 and has not ended since its great misfortune.

Paradoxically, and as a reminder to those who formed a dark alliance against the first national entity — whether knowingly or unknowingly, by action or naivety — the Oslo Agreement allowed the return of nearly one million Palestinians to their homeland, while Hamas and its partners pushed roughly a million Palestinians to leave the homeland.

This reminder of some political scenes is part of the necessary arsenal that must not be absent from the coming major battle: the enemy’s weapons are not only the army of the entity, but tools that provided it with results that exceeded its goal of destroying the first Palestinian entity, granting it the widest door to penetrate the region and laying the cornerstone of its state according to regional arrangements that were part of a “repressed dream” toward a “Greater Israel.”

The historical farce will not stop at comparisons of the national destruction caused by the Islamist movement Hamas, but at those who still do not see this with a clarity beyond clarity — that is the most dangerous if it continues within the walls of what remains.

Note: The New York mayoral election is a particular headache for the deluded Nobel wannabe “Titi.” Young Mamdani remains the frontrunner. The Zionist mayor withdrew but nothing changed — people want only Mamdani. The story is not just the victory of an ambitious, stubborn, upright young man, but that he disproved the myth of Jewish influence — a story that may silence some Arabs. Those who want to act can do so, if they want.

Special note: It is astonishing to see Sara’s husband’s stance on Qatar — in a moment it became “kakha” — and it was Qatar that made him and his entity what they are. He says “it has no place.” Wow — the Gaza war exposed those who were digging, even though they were already very exposed.