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Lebanon-based Palestinian researcher Hesham Dibsi slammed Hamas in an August 30, 2024 video posted on Voice of Lebanon on YouTube. He said that Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people, but rather it is a Sunni-Islamic project, similar to the Iranian Shiite-Islamic enterprise. Dibsi said that Palestinians strive to build a civil and secular state. He criticized Hamas leader abroad Khaled Mashal for calling upon Palestinians to return to suicide operations and increase the escalation with Israel, saying that Mashal is sitting in Qatar, while Palestinians are dying from hunger and polio.
Hesham Dibsi: "Hamas in Gaza could not care less about the people's wishes and interests. It still doesn't, because to this movement, the leaders of the Hamas movement... Yesterday, Khaled Mashal demanded the launch of suicide operations, and an escalation of the clashes, despite how severe the situation is. He is sitting in Qatar while people are dying of hunger, and children are dying of polio, and there are no vaccines.
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"We should remove from our political discourse the term 'Arab nation.' There is no such thing as an Arab nation, only Arab interests. Similarly, there is no such thing as an Islamic nation. It is wrong of us to keep whining, behaving like victims, and throwing the ball into the court of [the Arabs and Muslims].
"We are responsible for what has happened. As Palestinians, we are responsible for our policies. The Arabs have supported us in various forms. It was our mistakes that led the Arabs to cut down some forms of the aid they had been giving us in the past. This was caused by our own Palestinian mistakes in all areas.
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"When Hamas says that it wants to establish a resistance axis with Iran, and that they want to topple the Palestinian Authority in Gaza and in the West Bank, they are falling in line with the ambitions of the Supreme Leader of Iran, who has been calling ever since the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000 to arm the West Bank and topple the Palestinian Authority there. [Hamas] does not represent the Palestinians. Iran invests in the Palestinians, just like it invests in Iraq, Yemen, Syria, and Lebanon through its supporters or people who want Iran's money in order to implement their ideological agendas. The national Palestinian platform is not Islamic. It is a secular plan, striving for a civil and secular state on the land of Palestine. With Hamas, it is different. When Hamas says that it supports a Palestinian state, it is partly a lie. Ultimately, they have an Islamic enterprise. Just like Iran has a Shiite-Islamic enterprise, Hamas has a Sunni-Islamic enterprise."
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