"The emir of Qatar's trumpet call": the talks for a deal deepen the gaps in Hamas

Do the discussions on the possibility of a hostage deal and another truce between Israel and Hamas increase the rifts within the "Axis of Resistance"? This morning (Tuesday), the head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh , presented a different position regarding the deal than the one attributed yesterday to factors in Gaza, and an analysis of the way his words were covered on social media also indicates growing gaps in attitudes.

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Unusually, the popular Arab media channel Al-Mayadeen did not report Haniyeh's words at all this morning. Al-Mayadeen is a media channel that is considered close to Hezbollah and the Shiite axis in the Middle East, supports the actions of Hamas and is considered to have a very opposite line to reconciliation measures with the Sunni Gulf countries with Israel.

The Middle East expert Orit Perlov said in a conversation with Ma'ariv that the two different factions in Hamas must present "hawkish" and "Ionian" positions for political reasons, but in the end it is not in the power of Haniyeh to make the decision alone, detached from the interests of Hamas' funding sources such as Qatar and Key figures in the leadership in Gaza such as Muhammad Daf and Yahya Sinwar. "The political arm must always appear less hawkish than the military," she said, "because Qatar is trying to train the political arm and is building on the fact that they will be integrated in the future in elections or other Palestinian initiatives, so the Haniyeh cannot say no. He must be the mouthpiece of the Emir of Qatar."

"Hanya cannot come and say, 'We don't accept the Qatari deal, because how will he get the money from his boss?'" she added, "At the end of the day, the money for rebuilding Gaza is also on the table. That's why it's just a game. It means nothing And Haniya doesn't really have the ability to decide."

In recent months, there have been several reports of severe disagreements at the top of Hamas over the conduct of the war in Gaza. In November, the Wall Street Journal reported that the relationship between Sinwar and Haniyeh reached a real fight and a disconnection of more than a month. It was then reported that one of the reasons for the rift was indirect talks that Haniyeh and other Hamas officials had with senior officials in the Palestinian Authority. The one who remains outside this unusual discourse – which exists between the two rival Palestinian movements – is Sinwar, who is not a participant in the move at all – and may be excluded from the discussion.