دور حركة الجهاد الإسلامي في الحياة السياسية الفلسطينية (1987-2019)‎

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Islamic Jihad is one of the most prominent movements of political Islam in Palestine, a group that adopts Salafist jihadist ideology and seeks to apply Islam in all aspects of life.

The movement, like most of the movements of political Islam, emerged from under the cloak of the Muslim Brotherhood, but differed with it by focusing on the option of armed resistance, and presenting it as a priority on the advocacy and social side.

And as the first national Islamic organization to embrace jihad and resistance against the Israeli entity.

The movement adopts a political program opposed to any peaceful solutions with the Israeli occupation entity, refuses to recognize its existence, and rejects all peace agreements with it, including the Oslo agreement, which strongly opposed it.

This is based on the ideological and ideological considerations of the movement, which considers the land of Palestine as the land of Islamic settlement.

Therefore, the movement differed with the PLO and its various factions, in terms of visions and perspectives in their view of the Palestinian cause and the conflict with the Israeli occupation and settlement projects and armed resistance, intellectual and ideological dependence.

And considered that its political program and vision to resolve the conflict with the Israeli occupation, is unable to achieve the goal of national project in the liberation and independence.

The movement rejected the process of peaceful settlement and negotiation with the occupation, and considered the conflict with him a civilizational and existential conflict.

Therefore, the movement refused to enter the framework of the PLO as it stands and its political positions, and refused to participate in the legislative and presidential elections and institutions of power The movement maintains and emphasizes its positions regarding the existence of the Zionist entity and the means to confront it, its opposition to the settlement process and the outcome of the Oslo Accords, its affiliation to the axis of resistance, its emergence in the field of armed resistance against the occupation and the response to its aggression, and taking neutral positions in the internal Palestinian dispute and division, And its increasing presence in the field of social and charitable work, giving it credibility in the Palestinian street, and in the various Palestinian factions and factions, and enabled it to strengthen its presence and political weight at the local and regional levels, Her popular involvement.

In recent years it has also taken the lead in the Palestinian political scene as a result of its growing role alongside Hamas in confronting the attacks and wars waged by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.