Inside ‘History of two cities’Dickens depicted the contrast of life in London and Paris at the turn of the century. French Revolution. At first, an orderly, calm and peaceful life; in the second, a turbulent, chaotic and violent existence. None of the disconnected parts Occupied Palestinian Territories has known peace for decades, but its devastating but unequal response Israel against the brutal big attack Hamas from the past 7 October is vividly reflected perception owner Palestinians between Islamist faction. It does not exceed 50% in any region, but West Bank His support tripled in polls Loop many are “angry” at the gunmen who started this latest war.
“Hamas people still support Hamas, but the rest are angry with them. the price we pay for him adventurism”says a journalist from the Strip who preferred not to give his name for security reasons. “If they had their support Syria, Iranian anyone Hezbollah inside big war to help us heal Our rights and if we had liberated our lands, the people would have accepted this sacrifice, but the truth is that they only managed to put the lion in our homes,” he says in a telephone interview. Hamas’s popularity in Gaza had been declining for some time, a natural consequence of a process that had been going on for more than three decades. unrivaled governmentstifling external conditions and repeated Israeli military punishmentsI will suppress all resistance to it prison blockade and her colonial rule is based on mass destruction.
If added to this corruption of the bureaucratic apparatus Hamas and compressive vein When they are deployed internally, in the best tradition of Arab regimes, popular discontent in Gaza is understandable. 42% support in SeptemberAccording to the respected Palestine Center for Policy and Research Research (PSR), which is the main population center of the regions. Since the attack on southern Israel in October 1,200 people diedAccording to the latest PSR survey, conducted at the end of November and largely coinciding with the ceasefire week, support from around 850 civilians increased by four points.
Risk of protest in Gaza
Dissent in times of war is always a risky sport, and Gaza is no exception. “Hamas people are everywhere and if they sense that someone is trying to do this destabilize the house facade you can take was shot in the legs”says the same source, with no known affiliation. “You can complain verbally, but anyone who dares to call for a protest will get in trouble.” In Israel, too, fear of arrest and police brutality have silenced the Israeli minority who, according to polls, oppose their government’s actions in Gaza.
The picture is different in the West Bank, in Dickens’s London, with only thousands of detainees, daily raids and hundreds of dead Palestinians. Support for Hamas, which received only 12 percent support in September, increased to 44 percent. And more than eight in ten residents think: Islamist attack “was true”Compared to 57% in Gaza who think so. Many people think that this was done to protect the holy places of Islam. Jerusalem Jewish extremists prisoner exchange.
Support for armed resistance
“The public supports resistance against occupation because everything else has failed. from Oslo process-most talks or one’s own Palestinian authority (ANP),” says doctor, politician and activist Mustafa Barghouti, History of Palestinian civil society. “They are not ideologically oriented towards Hamas, but people are looking for something that can change their situation,” he adds from his office in Ramallah. Historically, Hamas’ intellectual baseProfessors and thinkers closest to the hard line muslim brotherhood The place he came from was not in Gaza but in the West Bank. They have been living underground there since 2007, when Palestine’s political unity collapsed.
“You must understand that Palestinian population is very young and like all young people, they see everything within themselves. black and white“says the political analyst Nur Odeh. “For that generation, ANP’s followers achieved nothing and today we are in a much worse situation than yesterday. They humiliated us. So people appreciate those who are willing to fight back — right or wrong — to salvage a minimum of dignity,” he added in a phone interview.
What’s clear is that Palestinians don’t even want to see their president in the picture Mahmoud AbbasIn the eyes of Europeans and Americans, he is the man who should take responsibility for Gaza in the post-war period and lead the eventual political process. 90 percent of respondents to PSR’s survey want Abbas to resign.