There Will Be No ‘Day After Hamas’ Because We Still Live In The Seventh Century

by Ismail Haniyeh, Chairman, Hamas Islamic Resistance Movement

Doha, March 6 – So much of the rhetoric surrounding the ongoing war against the Zionists in the Gaza Strip focuses on what happens once the Occupation achieves “victory” over the Resistance, as if such a notion can even be entertained, but aside from the delusion inherent in the discussion, it misses one crucial ontological point: there cannot exist a post-Hamas reality, because Hamas embeds itself in the formative years of the Islamic conquest, the “post” of which is… fourteen centuries and counting of Islamic rule.

Talking about “the day after Hamas” reflects an inability to grasp basic reality and the meaning of words. There will be no “day after Hamas” for the simple reason that the “day after” is yesterday. We live in the distant past, in the mythic time when Islam proved ascendant and indomitable. To reference “the day after” still places us in the glory days of the Caliph Umar and his ilk.

You will notice that the vastly superior Zionist arsenal has not diminished our will to fight! We have a secret weapon: we do not care what dire conditions of deprivation we face; we can subsist and persist in the most primitive circumstances. Bomb us back to the stone age? You’re bombing us forward to the stone age!

Note that when I say, “us,” I refer to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and not to myself and my retinue here in Qatar. I play an important role that requires the self-sacrifice of living in luxury and hobnobbing with influential government officials while my people wallow in dust and peril. I do this for you, my people; I promise to be strong in the face of this challenge.

Understanding the chronological impossibility of a “day after Hamas” affords the additional benefit of sidestepping any awkward questions about a supposed decline of Islamic dominance in the centuries following the initial, rapid expansions of Dar al Islam. The very success, as if supernatural, of such an endeavor, served as unimpeachable divine endorsement of Islamic conquest and superiority. We won, therefore we are right. You must submit. It gets weird if you go a little into the future from there and observe the ways in which Islamic rule receded and the last Caliphate, the Ottoman Empire, just kind of grew decrepit and died. And even more uncomfortable if Zionist success means Allah endorses Zionism.

We avoid all that by remaining in the seventh and eight centuries. There is no tomorrow!

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