As Hamas Calls for People to 'Mobilize' Against Palestinian

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There are times when contemplating a possible conflict, it’s OK to hope both sides lose.

Case in point: Hamas is now, according to a press release issued on Friday, reportedly calling for a mobilization against the Palestinian Authority.

Hamas called on all components of Palestinian society to mobilize in order to confront the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) “unprecedented” level of “aggression” against it and other terror groups in the West Bank, the terror group confirmed in a Friday press release.

In the statement, Hamas accused PA security forces of brutally coercing the Palestinian public into supporting its recent crackdown on West Bank terror groups.

Fatah, the governing body of the Palestinian Authority, claims to have eschewed support for terror groups, although they have been designated as a terror group in the past by both the United States and Israel. Even so; the idea of Hamas calling out any other group for “aggression” is an eyebrow-raiser, to say the least.

Pot, meet kettle:

Hamas regularly faces accusations regarding its own abuse against Palestinians. A September New York Times article highlighted Palestinian activists and whistleblowers in Gaza who complained of the brutal treatment they faced for speaking out against the terror group. In November, the IDF also released a 45-minute video exposing Hamas beating and torturing Palestinians.

The statement comes amid an ongoing PA counter-terror campaign in the West Bank, particularly in Jenin, which has seen a number of clashes between PA security forces and local insurgents.

On Saturday, a Palestinian Security Services officer was killed in one of these clashes in Jenin. Another officer was killed on Friday as well.

The timing of this is interesting, as only last summer the PA and Hamas met, in Beijing of all places, along with several other factions, to form some kind of Palestinian unity government.

Various Palestinian factions, including rivals Hamas and Fatah, agreed to end their divisions and form a national unity government during negotiations in China that ended Tuesday, according to Chinese state media.

The Beijing Declaration was signed at the closing ceremony of a reconciliation dialogue among the factions held in China’s capital from July 21-23, state broadcaster CCTV said.

Senior Hamas official Hussam Badran said the most important point of the Beijing Declaration was to form a Palestinian national unity government to manage the affairs of Palestinians.

That goal would appear to be going by the wayside now.

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With groups like this, it seems like the only time they aren’t attacking Israel or the Western world is when they are attacking each other. That’s fine; let them fight.

The one thing all of these organizations have in common is their desire, not for a two-state solution, but for a one-state solution – and that state won’t be Israel. They are unlikely in the extreme to ever give up that goal. But the really curious bit about all this is China’s involvement. What does the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) think they will gain from all this? The CCP never does anything altruistic; they aren’t involved in fostering peace and harmony around the world. What (as we seem to ask ourselves almost daily) is China up to?

Hamas may merely be hurling accusations as a result of Fatah’s supposed denouncing of terrorism. An insufficiency of zeal for the cause can frequently result in repercussions among violent radicals; just ask anyone who remembers the October Revolution. In this case, though, it’s hard to pick a side.

Maybe this is one of those times when it is OK to hope that both sides lose.