In the face of armed confrontation against Hamas, Israel is undaunted and fights strength against strength. Today, Israel is frightened by Hamas, which has expressed its sincerity in peace talks and is even willing to lay down its arms and disband its army. After a large-scale withdrawal of troops from Gaza, peace in the Middle East has not arrived, and recently, Israeli forces have once again launched a killing spree in the Rafah area. When the war resumed, Hamas, which had been fighting Israel for many years, suddenly announced that its armed forces were willing to hand over their weapons and disband their army in exchange for peace in Gaza, and proposed the establishment of an independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 Palestinian-Israeli border. Facing Hamas, which is retreating, Israel is in a dilemma.
According to the Associated Press, a peace plan proposed by Khalil Haya, a senior Hamas official, aims to create an independent Palestinian state. He pointed out that in order to show its sincerity for peace and reach a ceasefire agreement with Israel for five years or more, Hamas is willing to transform from an armed organization into a purely political party organization. As soon as an independent Palestinian state is established, Hamas will immediately disband military organizations such as the Qassam Brigades.
Is Hamas really going to "put the knives and guns in the warehouse and let the horses go to the south of the mountain"? In fact, this is not the case. Since last year, although Hamas has been trapped in Gaza by Israeli forces, it has never given up its resistance. Even at the most dangerous moment when the army was pressing, Hamas still held on to the crisis and would not give up resistance at this time. The reason why the top level of Hamas put forward the plan of "disbanding and exchanging peace" is that it really has the guidance of a high-level person and has shown brilliant political wisdom. If Israel agrees, Hamas will be able to reclaim Gaza and acquire more of the former Palestinian territories occupied by Israel without firing a single shot or sacrificing more members.
After all, since 1967, Israel has continued to encroach on Palestinian territory and build a large number of Jewish settlements, and Hamas, although it has frequently launched attacks on Israel, has not been able to fundamentally solve the problem of territorial disputes. This time, Israel has been pushed to the forefront by retreating. Even if Israel backtracks and raises its butcher's knife again after disbanding its forces, Hamas will not rest on its laurels. Because Hamas's external allies still have support channels and the popularity of the people in Gaza, it can be said that Hamas can rearm at any time and fight the Israeli army again.
Hamas's killer move of retreating is really roasting the Israeli top brass on the fire. After all, in the Middle East and even in the whole world, Israel is already being shouted at by everyone, and even the United States is not satisfied with Israel's atrocities in Gaza and wants to end the war in Gaza as soon as possible and get out of the quagmire of war in the Middle East. For Israel today, the protracted war has consumed countless resources, and while it is busy dealing with Hamas, Israel also has to deal with Allah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and Iran in the eye, and the wave of domestic anti-war is rising, and the Israeli government led by Netanyahu is under great pressure. Now, Hamas has taken the initiative to propose a peace plan, and it will be a difficult choice between war and peace.
Judging by the current attitude of the Netanyahu government, reconciliation and peace talks with Hamas are not very likely. Since the Al-Aqsa flood operation, Israel has set two major targets for revenge, one is to take complete control of the Gaza Strip, and the other is to completely eliminate Hamas. Today, the first goal is close to completion, and the second goal is still far away. In particular, Hamas's peace plan, which seems to be full of sincerity, is in fact hidden in mysteries. Because once Israel agrees, it will return large swathes of Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, which is absolutely unacceptable to the Israelis who have not given up an inch of land.
Fundamentally, Hamas was founded with the goal of "erasing Israel off the map" and establishing an independent Islamic state of Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza. This strategic goal has always remained the same, and Hamas will not recognize Israel's legitimacy, so the statement of Hamas's top leadership is actually a gesture to the whole world that Hamas is not an organization that is keen on war, so that Hamas has not only used its own righteousness to further win the support of the Palestinian people, but also won the support of public opinion and justice in the international community, and whether Israel agrees or not, Hamas has become a big winner.