There is no meaningful opposition to Hamas in Gaza. The Muslim Brotherhood terror group retains the support of a majority of Arab Muslims occupying Gaza. While they’re far from enthusiastic about it, the only other game in town is the PLO’s Palestinian Authority which tends to be far more hated.
Plus Hamas has a way of shutting down protests very fast and in the most direct way possible.
The Arabs in Gaza live in a tribal society of clans. Everything is determined by connections to large families. Those families have a lot at stake and scramble for a place in the power blocs that run everything. Which means they don’t have just have protests.
So what’s going on in Gaza where hundreds appear to be protesting Hamas? One basic question is why now?
The theme of the protests was a call for Hamas to step down and end the fighting. The sudden interest in ending the war is tied to the so-called Arab Plan for Gaza is moving forward. Under that plan, a fake ‘technocratic’ front group will run the place under the “supervision” of the PLO using ‘Palestinian’ troops trained by Jordan and Egypt. Hamas will supposedly not have a voice in the running of Gaza.
In reality, this is yet another variation of the same scheme that has been repeatedly proposed in which Hamas runs things from behind the scenes while a front group controlled by the PLO collects foreign aid.
(The Arab Plan estimates that rebuilding Gaza will cost $53 billion.)
The goal is creating an Islamic terrorist state in Gaza and Judea and Samaria with international recognition.
The sudden ‘protests’ against Hamas are meant to manufacture the myth that Arab Muslims occupying Gaza are ready for a new government.
Hamas didn’t greet the protests cheerfully, but neither did it cracked down as hard as it could. Pro-Hamas outlets like Al Jazeera and Middle East Eye are not acknowledging the protests while too many pro-Israel people are foolishly celebrating them as some sort of step forward. For the moment this is an internal dispute between two Jihadist groups, one overt and one covert, it doesn’t indicate peace or coexistence is here.
The protest is meant for public consumption in the Arab world and in the United States. It’s not a sea change, but the same old scam.
