The elections in Palestine have brought out results that could affect the balance of power in the Middle East. The loosing of strength by the El-Fattah was known, but it was never predicted that the result would have been so dramatic. In any case, the elections in Palestine have caused the opening of a new page in the Middle East, at least in connection with Palestine. The elections have given an end to the domination of El-Fattah. According to the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) the election results show "the choosing of resistance by the Palestinian people in the face of Israeli occupation".

The reasons of Hamas success in the elections can be summed up in few points:

1- The anger of the Palestinian people against the El-Fattah was huge. The Palestinian people have rightly considered El-Fattah as responsible for the entrance of Palestine question into dead-end, compromising with American imperialism and Zionism, and the process which started from Oslo and caused the appearance of current situation.

2- El-Fattah is considered as responsible of corruption, bribes, and "pocket-filling" that are dominant within the Autonomous Palestine Authority.

3- The fragmented and weak situation of revolutionary and communist forces in Palestine have pushed the people of Palestine, who are ready to fight but experiencing difficulties in determining their direction, to the side of Hamas that took attitude for an independent Palestinian state, do not recognise Israel as a State and conducts armed struggle.

4- Especially because of the financial help received from Iran, Hamas has come to the fore in solving many problems of the Palestinian people and gained sympathy and created an organisation -that cannot be belittled- from the base by using those financial help. Hamas has collected the harvests of these activities and opportunities.

What will happen hereafter?

In the region under the administration of the Palestine Authority, Hamas could aim to establish a regime similar to the one in Iran. However, such a step may cause the full isolation of Hamas and its overthrow from the power through the use of force by the alliance of imperialism and Zionism.

Hamas did not make such a step yet, but because it is aware of the consideration of the world public opinion towards itself, it started to give messages around and take under control its attitudes and statements that it has been using until now. Hamas, at first, wants to fight to stay on the power. Therefore it does not want to establish government alone and announces that it is in favour of a "national" government, a government that could be formed together with all forces, including El-Fattah. Thus it wants to lead all Palestinian forces in direction of its own point of views on the subject of interfering with the Palestine question. And is this being named as the national reconciliation.

Moreover, Hamas started to soften its known radical attitude against the American imperialism, Israel and its understanding of struggle in general just after the election. It is a necessary point not to forget that the political Islam, so Hamas could collaborate with imperialism when coming to power.

Hamas choose to visit Turkey at first, but not Russia and Egypt in order to give a message that it will not put obstacles before the imperialism's, American imperialism's Middle East policy, and that it is necessary for them to be recognised and not to be considered as terrorists. The reason of this was to give the message that it can also pass through a process such as AKP (Justice and Development Party) did in Turkey. The other one is the relations between the USA and Turkey. The statements of Ross Wilson, the USA ambassador in Ankara, show that the USA was informed before hand about the talks between Turkey and Hamas, and USA did know of the situation. The message given through Turkey to Hamas also shows that this is the situation. What is being wanted is rather clear: "Be cleaver, sometimes you can talk to the sky concerning the internal politics. But you must show that you have changed. Give up those verbal of yours. Both the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation), El-Fattah and at last Arafat were considered as terrorists once upon a time. But later they became a partner which we negotiated with. You must be the same"!

The people of Palestine have given a chance to Hamas to become government. The period of El-Fattah has been closed and Hamas period started. Palestinian people are the only force that would push Hamas to act in accordance with its promises. In the near future, Palestinian people are going to see who they elected, what would they came face to face with in the new period, what would change and not changed by comparing the new with the old period.

The independence of Palestine is going to be realised by the struggle of the Palestinian people. And this is going to be a direct result of only the Palestinian people's struggle against the imperialism, its local collaborators and Zionism.

MLCP is on the side of the Palestinian people's fight for independence and it will continue to consider their struggle as its own struggle.