Foreign Policy: The Al-Aqsa storm will increase the credibility of Hamas resistance.
In this article by Daniel Beeman, it is stated that the tactical success of the operation showed that Hamas is a skilled organization, and the damage it inflicted on Israel will embolden anyone who wants Tel Aviv to pay a bloody price for killing Palestinians in the past.
In this article, the author also mentions the goals of Hamas in carrying out this operation: disrupting the normalization of Arab countries’ relations with Israel may be one of the goals of Hamas. Saudi Arabia, Israel’s latest diplomatic prize, recently hosted a number of Tel Aviv officials, and normalization seemed possible. Currently, this issue is no longer on the table. Aaron David Miller, a senior Middle East expert, believes that the chances are now reduced to zero.
One of the goals of these attacks may have been to force the collapse of Israel. The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has put forward the idea that Israel is a loose “cobweb” and that if one group were to fight and die in this way, Israel would be easily overthrown. Here, Hamas may have been aided by the sharp divisions in Israeli society that emerged after the election of a far-right government and Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempt to implement controversial judicial reforms. Hamas leaders may believe that these differences reflect the general weakness of the Israeli regime, especially as it spills over into the military, with some reservists pledging in recent months not to serve in a government they see as undemocratic.
In another part of this article, the author believes: Hamas may also have achieved success in competing with the self-governing organizations. Mahmoud Abbas, head of the self-governing organization, is an 87-year-old man who smokes cigarettes and has no clear alternative. The self-governing organization is corrupt and has little legitimacy. One of its biggest problems is that it helps Israel suppress Hamas and other anti-Israeli groups in the West Bank. According to an expert, the self-governing organization is seen as an inevitable relationship with Israel.
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