As the Hamas-Ozrael continues, political leaders Palestinian group They expressed cautious optimism regarding the ability of the new administration of the United States to continue putting pressure on Israel on the negotiating table, even when President Donald Trump and his team made wide -assembled claims about “during the first weeks of duty”cleaning“Gaza and Israel”biblical rights“On the occupied west coast.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Basem Naim, Hamas leader based in Doha, said the group “interested in meeting with anyone who can help us achieve our goals, which are the goals of our people.” He quoted statehood, self-determination and right to return to Palestinians who fled or were forced from their homes after Nakba in 1948-when Israel was created on most historical Palestine-or the following wars.
These include Trump’s administration, Naim said. “If there is a chance to meet with any party, including Trump’s administration, to consider in detail how we can achieve such goals, I don’t think there are vetors and complaints on the move.”
“It’s not about politics that someone likes or doesn’t like it,” Naim added, compared to the US president. “These are the interests of all sides.”
Naim’s comments followed the similar feelings shared by Hamas’ senior official, Mousa Abu Marzouk, in an interview with the New York Times 20th January. Abu Marzouk said that the group was “prepared for dialogue with America,” and praised Trump as a “serious president”, attributing it to the end of the Israel-Hamas war.
Comments seem to signal an overture by Hamas to the American administration, for which they hope firm pro-outlet.
Short -term truce, long -term strategy
Naim greeted Trump’s intervention in conversations about the interruption of fire they had broke Under President Joe Biden and expressed his belief that he would hold the agreement. “We are advocating for an agreement and we have made maximum efforts to give this agreement the opportunity to succeed,” he told Al Jazeera.
He also noted that the strategic alliance between the US -Ai Israel was “so strong that we were not witnessing serious differences between Republicans and Democrats.”
“Nevertheless, we hope that the current administration may change and move to a new American approach to Palestinian issue,” he added. “If that happens, I’m sure we’re ready to cooperate with any party ready for it.”
Naim can express cautious optimism, but he is also concerned about Trump’s long -term plans, citing comments about Israeli “biblical law” on the occupied West Coast of Trump’s candidate to be an American ambassador to the United Nations, Elise Stefanik, as “disappointing” and “dangerous.”
He warned that the situation on the west coast was, where Israel performed deadly attacks after a ceasefire in Gaza and the violence of immigrants reached new levels of intensity, as extremely unstable.
“We’re talking about a very radical, extreme political group of people,” he said. “If nothing happens from above – and especially from the United States, from Trump’s administration – to this group of people, I think it is a matter of time before we see the next explosion.”
“When it comes to the current situation, change in the United States has helped to reach an agreement on the termination of fire,” he added. “President Trump made it clear that he wanted the end of this war before the inauguration and put pressure on the situation to see the end.”
But Trump’s obvious support for more Israeli land in occupied territory and the prospect of a formal annexation of the West Coast were deeply worrying, Naim said.
“When it comes to long -term strategy … I think it’s very dangerous if we seek stability and security and prosperity in the region.”
“If Trump plans to stand firmly behind the promise he made, he wants to see the end of all these wars and seek peace and stability and normalization, I’m sure he is aware and that his team is aware that he is aware that his team is aware of the war in The region does not serve these goals, “Naim added.
“If he really plans to achieve stability and safety in the region and focus on other questions, he has to put pressure on Netanyahu and his racist government and the coalition to stop this madness, to stop acting as a rogue state, or to mention above the law. “
“Personally, I believe he will do it,” he added.
‘Don’t go anywhere’
Sultan Barakat, political analyst and public policy professor at Hamad bin Khalifa University of the Qatar Foundation, told Al Jazeera that Hamas had emerged from the 15-month war, which proved his resistance despite the comprehensive military efforts of Israeli exploitation.
“They don’t go anywhere,” Barakat said, adding that it made the group a constant political reality that Trump couldn’t avoid.
Hamas, for his part, recognizes Trump’s decisive role in relation to his predecessor, while realizing that his administration does not necessarily signal improvement.
“It’s not about being better for Palestinians. But I think they saw the difference he made when he got into the negotiations, the pressure he could do,” Barakat said. “With Biden, 15 months, they were fed with a lot of promises and many red lines that Israel crossed without consequences.”
“They see him as a serious person who said” stop, “he added.” But that doesn’t mean he’ll be on the Palestinian side. “
Barakat emphasized that in the past there were other moments where Hamas felt optimistic about US politics to Palestine, including In 2017When the group changed its charter and explicitly removed the tongue by calling for the destruction of Israel.
But the United States “failed them,” Barakat added. While the current fire interruption agreement was the first step, he added, the second and third stages of the agreement, which relates to the renewal and management in Gaza, remained unclear.
Still, Trump managed to break through the downtime.
“They have reached the bottom of what is expected from the world leader with Biden. And not just Palestinians, I think everyone involved in the process felt the same,” Barakat said. “He introduced many red lines and everyone had crossed. He couldn’t do anything.”
Barakat, who was involved in the negotiations between the Taliban US -Ai Afghanistan, under the first Trump administration, noted that a similar dynamics had played at the time.
“When you have someone who comes in and says,” Do it, and we don’t know what he told others, but they did it, “that it is worth admiring on the surface,” he added. “They admire him. But they don’t believe him to move forward.”
