Saudi Writer Fahad Shoqiran On 'Arab Tragedy And The Curse Of Resistance': 'When The Suicide Bombing Culture Evolves... To Involving Entire Capitals And Societies, It Becomes A Crime Against Humanity'
"After the July 2006 war that killed more than 2,000 Lebanese people and caused economic losses amounting to over two billion dollars, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah made his famous statement, 'I would not have ordered the capture of the two Israeli soldiers if I had known that it would lead to such a war.' In 2009, Hamas tested the Israelis again and caused massive massacres. The same thing happened in 2012 and 2014.
"However, Operation Guardian of the Walls currently led by Israel is exhibiting an unprecedented level of violence. The oppressed Palestinian people are paying for the rash behavior of the resistance. Hamas knows better than anyone else that it does not have enough forces to deter Israel. All Hamas can do is fire rockets chaotically, with no military planning or strategic targeting. Denouncing Hamas is paramount to defending the oppressed Palestinians.
"The problem today is the concept of 'resistance,' whose meaning has become broader since the early founding of Hizbullah, the Palestinian Brigades, [and] Hamas, [and] all the way to the Iran-backed Houthi militia [in Yemen]. The concept of resistance is loaded with fundamentalist ideology. In this context, resistance does not mean self-defense or confrontation with the aggressor; instead, it has its own political, ideological, and partisan agenda.
"Resistance has been linked with suicide bombing escalation and pressure on the enemy, not through military action but through a culture of suicide bombing that no longer consists of individual jihadists from the Izz al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades blowing themselves up in a café in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. Instead, it is as if Hamas wrapped the entire Palestinian people and Gaza with an explosive belt and put them at the mercy of its reckless decision to test Israel, known for its violent reactions and mercilessness which Arabs witnessed during their long history of defeats and calamities.
"A key idea in Al-Toraifi's article is that 'the leaders of the resistance have committed weighty mistakes against regional peace. They caused massive destruction in the region and linked the future of the Palestinians to evil regimes. Despite this, the resistance did not review its positions nor question its key figures who became leaders at the expense of the lives of defenseless civilians.'