A Palestinian source: "The more anger Hamas causes in Gaza, the stronger it gets in the West Bank; there is even a drift from Fatah to Hamas in the West Bank." The price for Hamas's tactical turn is paid by the negotiations with Israel, and a new demand by Hamas aimed at promoting the myth: release All the Palestinian prisoners in the prisons in Israel for all the kidnapped: or in the familiar phrase all for all. Hamas is trying to turn its crushing defeat on the battlefield into a victory in Palestinian public opinion in Ramallah. It was helped by the Israeli government that did not collect the political compensation for the IDF's miraculous victories. Initially, Hamas tried to achieve achievements in the negotiations, but the Israeli government opposed the end of the war, and its members hinted that the trend is settlement in the Gaza Strip. Probably with the help of Iran (see today's main story), Hamas has now changed tactics, and is developing the character of Samson the hero who fought in plishtim with bare hands ready to die and win the picture of encounters that it initiates with the IDF in Jabaliya, Beit Hanon, Beit Lahia and other places, and which are filmed for it by a professional camera crew, Hamas transfers mainly to the West Bank; We did not invent the quote from the story of Samson the hero: it is a quote from the Palestinian source. Of course, we do not rule out the possibility that this is a spin that the source helps establish. The question is not whether it is spin, but whether the story about the tactical turn is true. Television polls that are common in the West Bank show the Palestinian public's support for opposition to Israel. The congestion of these videos supports this. As well as Hamas's desperate need to stay alive, after the IDF overran it, and the desperate need of the Palestinians in the West Bank for stories of heroism against Israel.

By Mati Cohen

It is quite possible that what is described in the title is part of Hamas's effort not to fall into the abyss that the IDF dug for it in Gaza. It is therefore possible that the Palestinian source of this article is doing media manipulation, what is called in our places spin, and glorifying the power of Hamas, just before the organization raises its hands, accordingly For the dream of extremists in Israel, in the media arena of the war of iron swords, the most essential quality for journalists now is modesty: Is Israel, Iran, The Palestinians, Lebanon, Hezbollah or one or more of the many Western countries, Trying to plant something in their pages that has no basis in reality? The matter of planting material in newspapers is very common in the free press, and there is no journalist who does not treat these materials with respect, if they are true. This is the only requirement of a free press. The same goes for the things described here: an important Palestinian source tries to plant them in our pages, but we ask: are they true?

the truths

The video recorded here with its photos is an authentic video, first of all from our judgments as professionals in the field of television; And above all it should be said that there are very many of it – and that this is an apparently Iranian work method; Since the format of this video is the same among all of Iran's mercenary groups, we need to find out if this is part of the curriculum that Iran is passing on to the entities that fight for it. The setting in the video whose photos are attached here looks authentic (the source said that the battle in the photos was recently in Jabaliya) And many of the videos are parallel to events on the ground.

the support

We all see on YouTube that support for Hamas is widespread even in pointless and unscientific polls of Palestinians in the West Bank. It is more correct to say that the support that emerges from these questions stems from political opposition to Israel, and it is broad. This is not support for the genocide of Hamas on October 7, although such support also appears there. Many respondents in the West Bank express their deep fear and disgust towards what they see as an "occupation" through support for Hamas. In this sense, Hamas is the only Palestinian force that fights Israel, and in this context, the fact that it committed genocide does not diminish the support for the organization. For many Palestinians, the image that overshadows any other political image is the image of the Israeli occupier at the checkpoints, and the need to fight him, at least for the sake of national honor. For this purpose, Hamas is now promoting the tactics of the underdog's struggle in the mighty army and sending the result straight to the willing hearts in the West Bank.

The tactic

The tactics are Iranian; This can be seen from a conference held this week at the Revolutionary Guards in Tehran, where it was clearly stated that Iran is provoking its mercenaries, including Hamas, to attack Israel (see the main story today). The Iranian lesson falls on open Palestinian ears of the students of the genocide in Gaza; According to the Palestinian source, Hamas knows that without a myth of heroism, it will emerge from this campaign as a defeated and humiliated organization. Therefore, according to the source, the slogan was chosen: My soul dies with the Plishtim, that is to die and not to surrender. In the opening words to the video, the photos of which are attached here, it is even said: The Israelis fortify themselves with tanks, we fortify ourselves with the Koran. The punch line is we are heroes, and we fight to the death. Hamas needs this myth as mentioned to stay alive as an organization, and to thrive in public political terms in the West Bank. In our estimation, the overwhelming support of Palestinians in the West Bank for Hamas will permeate Gaza as well, and at the end of the fighting, will once again ignite broad support for Hamas in the Gaza Strip, If indeed, the new tactic he adopted with Iranian support, will succeed.

The effect on the negotiations

Building the myth, according to the source, requires Hamas to stand by two principles in negotiations with Israel. One, the end of the war. The second: the release of all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons in exchange for all the abductees. All other things, the source said, are subject to compromise: Hamas is ready for an agreement in a few beats. It is ready for the presence of the IDF in Philadelphy until all the clauses of the agreement and all the pulses are completed; the same is true of the Netzarim axis. We will say that what happened at the end of Yahya Sinwar's life, when he agreed to a compromise, including the presence of Israel at several points along Philadelphy, is no longer relevant to the best of our understanding.