This is probably the greatest dilemma Hamas’ leadership has faced since the organization’s founding. The delay in the group’s official response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan points to the intensity of the hesitation.
There is no doubt that Trump’s plan is not a good deal for Hamas, not least because the organization is required to give up what makes it Hamas — its weapons. In other words, the organization’s whole existence has been based on being, supposedly, the representative of “resistance” (“Hamas” in Arabic is an acronym for the “Islamic Resistance Movement”) or, in other words, the one who keeps brandishing terror to bend the hands of the “occupation.”

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