Realign for Palestine - an organization I support
20 June 2025
From today’s Washington Post, written by Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, the head of Realign for Palestine, a project of the Atlantic Council, where he is a resident senior fellow.
Hamas is an authoritarian Islamist cult, many of whose corrupt leaders enjoy lives of security and wealth in Qatar and Turkey. Its ability to use the people of Gaza as human shields while casting all the blame on Israel is among its greatest weapons. Methodically, it places tunnel shafts, rocket launchers, weapons caches and hiding spots inside, near or under Gaza’s schools, hospitals, markets, apartment buildings, refugee camps, or any location where civilians might gather and seek refuge from Israel’s military operations.
In turn, Hamas has successfully generated intense international pressure on Israel to conclude the war in Gaza. But though a ceasefire might secure a temporary reprieve, it would only be a matter of time until the next war begins, and Hamas turns another generation of Palestinian children into cannon fodder. Hamas’s raison d’être is jihad, armed resistance and an expansionist agenda that seeks to take over the entirety of the Palestinian political landscape as part of its decades-long effort to destroy Israel.
Palestinians on the ground understand this, and in recent months began risking their lives to protest Hamas in the streets of Gaza and on social media. There has been remarkably little news coverage of these protests, and “pro-Palestinian” organizations are indifferent to them. Why? Because focusing on Gazans’ grievances against Hamas would undermine the anti-Israel narrative that energizes “pro-Palestinian” groups and far too many journalists, academics and activists.
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Their website is https://realignforpalestine.org/
Now is the time for Palestinians and their supporters to:
Publicly reject Hamas and violence.
Call for the release of the Israeli hostages and cessation of rocket firing from Gaza.
Start building a nonterrorist and prosperous Palestinian country, with a constitution or similar document, economic development plans and other “nation building” activities. These activities should start now because (a) they will take some time to accomplish, (b) they will help convince Israelis, Americans and others that Palestinians are serious about peace and (c) they will convince Palestinians that there is an alternative to hate and violence.
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