Muslim Resistance in Jerusalem

Jerusalem for a very long period had become the uproar place among three communities with different faith; the groups are all believe in Abrahamic faiths. There is no sign of green light shown by the groups to be in harmonic, the symbol of tolerant concede merely to both charismatic leaders "Umar and Saladin" who patronage the intolerant to be disaster for the human safety and sustain the harmonic between two major communities, Jews and Arabs, in Jerusalem. Under their leadership once again Jews find their safety and freedom of pursuing their religious devotion.
The aftermath of Jerusalem come after the land occupied by the British, the Arab who for along centuries authorized for the al-Quds (holy city) no longer had it power. Bearing in mind from the losing of their ownership, the Arab Muslim revives to consolidate their power, but unfortunately there is no such union among them; even among the Arab it self battled for the leadership. In the other side Jews had established their state, and possess the right for their country, in the Palestine land.
During intifada (uprising), HAMAS is the first one who put on uprising in 1987. HAMAS is the Islamic Resistance Movement (Harakat al-Muqawamat al-Islamiyyah), but with also bears a literal meaning of "zeal".
The Arab league met in Amman in November 1987, has not brought the issue of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory as the major threat to regional stability. And this was the first time the Arab league had not identified this peculiar matter. Feeling betrayed by the international community and abandoned by fellow Arabs, some members of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood lost faith in the approach to the problem of Palestinian statelessness taken by that organization during the past few decades. The initial intifada is caused by the killing some of Palestinian workers by the Israeli driver. A group of Islamist Palestinians came together at a meeting called to discuss the incident, and as result is the formation of HAMAS, later on the militarism was prevailed by HAMAS leaders to achieve the security for Palestinians.
HAMAS principally distinguish from PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) in rejecting the right of Israel whom they called as "Zionist" to exist in the Palestinian land, because Israel does not agree with the establishment of Palestine country. HAMAS wanted the whole area of Palestine which is extended up to the Israel side and considered all of the lands as the waqf, that is, properties entrusted to Muslims to administer in pertuity, for the benefit of society. HAMAS ideologues believe that an Islamic state is necessary to ensure the rights of all citizens, Jews and Christians as well as Muslims, since Islamic law protect the rights of religious minorities. Thus, the HAMAS charter proclaims "God is the goal, the prophet is the model, the Qur'an is the constitution, jihad is the path, and death on God's path is our most sublime aspiration."

HAMAS had source of the fund from both national and international. Internal funding come from the Islamic charity offering, Zakat, support also comes from Muslim governments such as those of Saudi Arabia and Iran, from Islamic organizations throughout the world as well as remittance from Muslims living abroad.
Shaykh Ahmad Yasin (b. 1936) is the spiritual leader of HAMAS, and founder of Gaza's Islamic Center. HAMAS devotes the majority of its budget to an array of social services. These include support for the families of slain, jailed, or exiled activists; health centers, kindergartens and other school; mosques and mediation services. Its military activities, which it considers legitimate resistance to Israel's military occupation which is violation of United Nation Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, are conducted by an armed wing called "Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades", named after the death of Palestinian hero killed by the british in 1936
HAMAS activities is a wing of the Muslim Brotherhood society in Palestine, it is coordinated by liaisons between Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, and HAMAS leader living abroad. Its leadership structure is informal Shaykh Yasin Remains the acknowledged spiritual leader, but specific decisions are taken by a consultative council (Majlis al-Shura) with a flexible membership. This structure is in accordance with the traditional Sunni Islamic model, and is effective in allowing the organization to survive the incarceration and exile of its leaders from time to time.
The suicide bombings and it armed struggle against Israel, targeting both military personnel and civilians launched by HAMAS is the most notorious. Even many scholars of Islam has abandoned and condemned both suicide and targeting of civilians, as it is strictly prohibited in Islamic law. Moreover since the attacks against America on 11 September 2001. But the major scholars are in contrary to the case of the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation.
The leader of HAMAS, Shaykh Yasin sought the essential movement in politic, in that he put the goal to secure the rights of Palestinians in their home-land, like other political movements, the significance of HAMAS is based not so much on the number of its official members as on the popularity of its political agenda. However, elections among students in Palestinian universities indicate that by the mid-1990s, HAMAS had the second-largest following, after FATAH (Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini, the largest organization in the PLO).
Because of its military activities and political positions HAMAS is banned in israel many of its members have been arrested or deported, and a number of its leaders have been assassinated. HAMAS was designated a terrorist organization by the United States in 1995, and contributing to it was prohibited by the Anti-Terrorism and effective death penalty act. (Pub. Law 104-132) of April 1996.

Written By Romi Adetio S
Graduate Student of Aligarh Muslim University, India.