Al Jazeera Wonders If Hamas Will Disarm; Ignores Israeli Occupier
The article posits Hamas’s disarmament as a 'key obstacle' to peace, a framing that conveniently sidesteps the core issue: a 57-year military occupation. It’s a rhetorical sleight of hand, implying parity between an armed resistance group within an imprisoned territory and a nuclear, US-funded state military exercising brutal control. (One might wonder if any occupying force ever offers to disarm
first.) In 2005, Israel 'disengaged' from Gaza, only to impose a suffocating blockade the following year. This 'disengagement' was never about peace, but about an open-air prison. To demand the disarming of the besieged, while the besieger continues to receive billions in US military aid annually (over $3.8 billion per year, according to the Congressional Research Service), is not a query for
peace—it's a demand for unilateral surrender to ongoing subjugation. One might ask, what exactly would Hamas be 'ceasing' if the occupation continues unabated?