15 November 2012
By Khalid Amayreh
The closure on Monday, 5 November, of Hamas's offices
in Damascus should be viewed as a badge of honor for
the Palestinian Islamic liberation movement.
It shows that Hamas is siding with the Syrian people
who have been struggling to rid themselves and their
thoroughly tormented country of one of the most
murderous and thuggish regimes under the sun.
It also shows that Hamas has finally decided to
discount certain parochial political considerations in
favor of a morally credible stance that is free from
cheap opportunism, moral ambiguity and unconscionable
double-standards.
Some short-sighted Palestinians might argue that Hamas
should have sought a certain modus vivendi with the
sectarian regime in Damascus, which is based on the
small esoteric Alawite sect.
However, such a measure, though it may be temporarily
expedient from the Machiavellian view point, would be
immensely costly from the moral and Islamic
perspectives.
Moreover, it would imprint on Hamas an indelible mark
of shame, having, God forbid, sided with the murderous
regime against millions of Syrians struggling for
freedom and dignity. True Muslims would never side
with oppressors against the oppressed or with
criminals against their victims.
Hamas is a liberation movement, par excellence. As
such, it must always take the right decisions and make
the right choices, irrespective of small and secondary
political calculations here and there.
On the Day of Judgment, every one of us will be asked
why we allowed the Syrian genocide to happen. We will
be asked why we did virtually nothing to stop it. And
those amongst us who may have helped the thuggish
regime of Bashar al-Assad in his war of extermination
against the Syrian people will have the following
phrase imprinted on his forehead: "having no hope in
receiving Allah's mercy."
The secularists and atheists may ridicule us for
speaking this way. Well, most of these people don't
believe in God, a hereafter, or a Day of Judgment.
But we are Muslim and must not indulge in actions or
behaviors that would make us think or behave in ways
incompatible with our Islamic beliefs and values.
In the meantime, the murderous regime of Bashar el
Assad continues to murder Palestinian refugees all
over Syria, either because they are suspected of
sympathizing with the revolution or because they
refuse to carry out orders to massacre their Syrian
brothers and neighbors.
In the final analysis, we are speaking about a satanic
regime that combines German Nazism and Communist
Stalinism, a regime that would stop at nothing in
order to keep its sect and family in power.
The uninterrupted cycle of atrocities against
Palestinian refugees in Syria at the hands of Assad's
Shabbiha or thugs and other cutthroats should not
surprise us at all. At the end of the day, a regime
that doesn't hesitate to bomb and destroy its towns
and villages and slaughter its own citizens, even en
mass, will not flinch from doing the same thing and
more to Palestinian refugees living in Syria.
The criminal regime never stops ranting and babbling
about its alleged resistance to Israeli and American
conspiracies. Fortunately, these obscene lies will no
longer deceive the bulk of Arabs and Muslims who have
finally discovered the regime's true nature.
The evil regime may continue to rave and rant about
its mythical resistance for ever. But the outstanding
truth which no honest person under the sun can deny is
that the regime has been using and is using the huge
stockpile of weapons purchased for the purpose of
fighting Israel and liberating the occupied Golan
heights, to destroy Damascus, Aleppo, Hama, Homs,
Diraa and other Syrian cities.
Indeed, instead of resisting Israel, the regime is
massacring its own people in order to remain in power
and keep the jackboots of its sectarian thugs and
murderers pressed for ever against the throats and
necks of Syrian, men, woman and children. And I'm not
speaking metaphorically.
Furthermore, the last thing the just Palestinian cause
needs is support and backing from a manifestly
murderous and nefarious regime, which would form a
harmonious camaraderie with the likes of Ariel Sharon,
Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
We Palestinians don't need and don't ask for support
from a regime that is swimming in a sea of blood of
its own people.
Our fate and kismet always lie with the people, not
with regimes, especially tyrannical regimes that live
on murder and thrive on bloodshed.
Therefore, Hamas should be lauded for taking the
morally correct decision of severing ties with the
Hitlerian regime of Bashar el-Assad.
There are likely some opportunistic people here and
there who would try to take advantage of the severance
of relations between Hamas and the despicable Alawite
regime in order to serve their own dubious agendas.
Well, the barking of dogs, whether abroad or at our
home turf, shouldn't distract us from taking the right
decision and choosing the right choice.
Hamas is not demanded or required to take an active
part in the Syrian revolution. Hamas is fighting its
own struggle against the mother of all terrorist
regimes, Israel.
Now, the Syrian regime is joining Israel as an
additional foe of the Palestinian people. Needless to
say, the daily executions and murder of Palestinian
refugees at al-Yarmouk camp and elsewhere in Syria
should give the Alawite junta an authentic certificate
of good conduct, especially in the eyes of Zionist
circles both in Tel Aviv and Washington.
This is while the virulent regime
keeps up the pornographic lie, that it is killing the
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