Hamas Riding a ‘New Wind’ from Egypt
Hamas is hailing the “new wind” blowing from its Egyptian neighbors, one that is strengthening the position of the terrorist group in the international arena. With bold words and actions, Hamas is celebrating the end of its international isolation and new Egyptian involvement. Says Hamas political head Khaled Meshaal, in an article for Egyptian daily Al-Ahram:
Egypt is dealing in a “new wind” with Hamas, because its responsibility now is different after the revolution. … We are looking to Egypt now, hoping that Egypt is prepared to face the Zionist danger at the strategic level.
The “new wind” is evident in Egypt’s diplomatic strategy. After brokering the reconciliation between the two major Palestinian parties, Fatah and Hamas, Egypt has encouraged the United States to support the unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state.
The Egyptian government and Hamas are also raising diplomatic ties to a whole new level. From reporting in the English-language edition of Egypt’s most popular paper:
The Gaza government’s minister of foreign affairs and planning, Mohamed Awad, has said that the Egyptian government is looking into soon reopening its office of representation in the Strip.
There are rumors of Hamas doing the same in Egypt.
Hamas has been active on the diplomatic scene as well. The group has received over $30 million for reconstructing Gaza, pledged to continue kidnapping Israeli soldiers, and has given Israel a one-year ultimatum to accept a Palestinian state on its terms. It has also refused to ever recognize or negotiate with Israel, and has “the right to resistance” — a euphemism for terror.
It also denounced the American assassination of Osama bin Laden. Meshaal told French news agency France 24:
Concerning bin Laden everyone knows Hamas has differences from al-Qaeda … especially (its) operations targeting civilians, but all this doesn’t give the U.S. the right to kill as they please without any regard for the law and to assassinate Arabs and Muslims, blaming everything on them and accusing them of terrorism.
As Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil al-Arabi put it, Egypt wants to “open a new page with all countries in the world,” Hamas’ Gaza included. Essentially, Egypt is rewarding Hamas for refusing to renounce terror and being unrepentant about its desire to destroy Israel.
The closer Egypt moves philosophically to Gaza, the closer it will start to physically take on it’s characteristics.
Hamas’ greatest weapon is actually immigration into the West where muslims can then agitate to be seen simply as another downtrodden group and their Nazi philosophy, because it doesn’t have an army, can hide among all the other minority serial complainers.
This is how tourism and business from the West could ignore a hate group gov’t in Egypt and normalize the idea of doing business with unrelenting bigots. What’s really scary is what’s happening in the U.S. – Hamas is the same as it ever was.
“The closer Egypt moves philosophically to Gaza”
They are physically neighbors, but I still do not see that border open.
Egypt will do what’s in its best interests. Hamas is just blowing hot out hot air. Hamas is an Iranian tool, and now Fatah is too. One can see the Egyptian “deal” on Hamas/Fatah as Realpolitik: Egypt just sabotaged Fatah and Hamas both.
The only way there will be “peace” is if the West stops subsidizing the Palestinians, including the corrupt and overblown “refugee” welfare.
From “The Propagandist”
Will The USA Please Stop Funding Terrorism?
Posted by Editor
The same question applies for the European Union, Britain, India, Japan and others, now that the Palestinian Authority has made it illegal for the PA to not fund terrorism. The PA may be one of the only organizations in the world that actually pays terrorists a regular salary — all with foreign donations, largely from countries that are formally fighting jihadist terror movements.
In other words, all Palestinians in Israeli prisons for terror crimes officially join the PA payroll. According to the definition in the PA law, Palestinian car thieves in Israeli prisons will not receive a salary, but Hamas and Fatah terrorist murderers will.
The PA also gives a salary to Israeli Arabs convicted of terror crimes against Israel – the country of which they are citizens. PA benefits to Israeli Arab terrorists, in fact, are greater than the ones extended to Palestinian terrorists.
Those serving more than 20-year sentences will receive a greater PA salary than prisoners serving shorter sentences, the new PA law establishes. Salaries are to be paid from the day of arrest until release.
May 20th, 2011
Comment by Tim Bus:
Disgusting, despicable, but strangely unsurprising.
NOTHING that islam has done or will do will ever surprise me,
unless they burn the koran, about 100,000 tons of them.
“We love death more than you love life.” sums it up.
Except pehaps, that the last four words are redundant.
Even if the western supporters of this thinly disguised
Israelicide/Jewicide wannabe ‘nation’ reduced their blood
money, in proportion to the terrorist payouts, Iran and KSA would take up the slack.
They should cut off funds IMMEDIATELY,
and only restore them under very strict
rules of humanitarian usage.
None of this would be possible without Obama’s embrace/empowerment of the Brothers.It is not for nothing that Obama ordered Mubarak to GO NOW, leaving the door WIDE open for the MB.
Obama has been prepping his Brothers on the ground, both in Washington power circles and in Egypt for many months.His ‘outreach’ in Cairo in 2009 was designed for the MB, they were front & center in the audience, Mubarak nowhere to be found. Coincidence?I think not. Moreover, there is evidence that the administration has been paving the ground for US public opinion to do the same, attempting to paint the MB as a ‘progressive’ alternative to terrorists.
NO one has to take my word for the above.Do your own due diligence on Obama and his Brotherhood associations.Read, The Muslim Mafia by Gaubatz & Sperry, coupled with Infiltration, by Sperry. The picture will become crystal clear-frighteningly so!!
One simply has to look at where Obama has applied pressure for regime change (Egypt, Libya) and where he hasn’t, even in the presence of an opposition movement (Iran, Syria). He has been enabling Islamism/jihad in his choices, regardless of whether this is a strategy (I don’t doubt you, Adina) or simply clumsy incompetence prompted by transnationalist progressive dreaming.
It’s all very dangerous, whether it’s about enabling Islamism or simply taking America down a number of pegs to where she is forced to accommodate some kind of post-American order.
What worries me is whether, if there is a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state in September, that Obama will cite Responsibility To Protect in order to try to have the U.S. subsidize and take part in a U.N. action against Israel.
Gee, I really hate sounding paranoid, but given the real enemies …
Beth…..you are not at all paranoid in thinking R2P is being tested to use against Israel, a nation which is defending itself from genocidal foes. The fact of the matter is that Obama and his gang of advisers/czars what nothing more than to create the conditions to impose their will on Israel.Not only do they need an international ‘tested’ pretext to invade Israel,but they must set the stage for much chaos so that Israel’s leaders see no way out. Obama’s absolute meddling in Egypt-GO NOW-is a glaring case in point of the chaos he helped stir up.By leaving Syria & Iran alone from Washington interference Obama also sets the stage .
Many in Jerusalem have the exact same ‘paranoia’ as you. They are convinced that Samantha Powers advised Obama to use Libya as a test case, to see how far they can go with it, and then hold it up as Exhibit Number One.
Whereas the Butcher of Damascus and the Iranian Hitler absolutely deserve R2P to be applied, so far it hasn’t been.So, one has to wonder, what is it all about if not to protect civilians against the most dangerous butchers in the region?
Mars will invade the Earth before the U.S. invades Israel.
Through NATO they may very well…..
And if they do they will not be met with roses….when a nation has nothing more to lose then all bets are off.
NATO’s not going to invade Israel – what are you smoking?
Yea, really not paranoid. The R2P doctrine was penned by George Soros. Enough said.
Entangled plays of the West with terrorists: Hamas feels well in Britain where late Israeli PM have been nearly arrested by Hamas group`s demand,Taliban is the subject for talks and only Al-Qaeda is the devil`s incarnation.”Benevolent inattention” toward Muslim Brotherhood- Hamas-creators is compensated by the Al-Qaeda`s chief liquidation,though after ten years.The liberals in power,it seems to me seek the possibility to “integrate” terrorists into “global order” ‘
In regard to “propaganda”, I believe that, beyond the MB, Egyptian people have been eating “propaganda” from the state owned media for so long that the issue of “Palestine” has become more than an Islamist issue.
It is on the ground in every household, in every political section and generally on the street. The April 6 Movement (which is generally the socialist youth) participated in a march on Thursday (Nakba, celebration of the egypt Israel war?) to Gaza (A March to Palestine it was referred to).
This isn’t just about Islamists, this is about the ideas of the entire population. They have lived under this propaganda for their entire lives (keeping in mind that the largest part of the population is under thirty). They do not even recognize it as “propaganda” from the state anymore, but as a collective memory of the people.
For them, Israel is “Apartheid”, keeping the Palestinian Arabs separate and outside of the greater state of Palestine (keeping in mind that the idea of Israel as a state exists, but the idea of a Greater Palestine w/people allowed to return to the territory is the one that these “youth” buy into).
Two states is not an issue of two nations for them. They are thinking in bigger terms (two states in one state, but that any existence of those as one “arab” and the other “jewish” is ‘apartheid’). The disintegration of Israel is not a matter, necessarily, of physical force, but of population.
Of course, the Israelis are mindful of this and so are we. Which means that, no matter what is done to recognize the “Palestinian state”, the end of hostilities will not come and all of these states will remain “at war” with Israel. Because, as noted, the end state is not Israel living in peace in the Middle East, but Israel gone.
The question now is what sort of game is the greater government playing? Do they believe that they can move the MB to basically control or force Hamas to actually submit to negotiation? When, in truth, this is the MB playing the administration and the last one as well.
I do believe we have been infiltrated (kind of like the Communists who were telling FDR and then trying to tell Truman that Uncle Joe was not dangerous right before Stalin ordered the barbwire fence to be installed across the territory he held to become the Iron Wall). Have we determined that we are going to play the same double game or are the people in the administration naively going along with this?
It is too difficult to say (though ideologically, I lean towards naivety or at least very foolish).
I am now leaning towards the idea that the putting off of elections in Egypt was possibly the most naive thing that we had pressed for. The parties that would be the “other” in egypt are squandering positions or at least have given the MB political coverage on this issue to the point that they have little or nothing to offer that is truly separate from the MB. Only details of whether there is a minimum or maximum wage, whether this or that ministry is in whose technical hands.
The MB has consolidated their hold over the education system and will continue to do so as the process moves forward. They are pushing for a parliamentary government, as opposed to a Presidential one, giving the parliament and the Prime Minister (who will only be selected with the approval of the MB block in government) with cabinet control. Including the ministry for Religious endowments that controls the placement of Imams in the Mosques.
Interesting that the SCAF have issued an order recently re-opening 48 previously closed Churches. Also that the Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar has called a great meeting of all of the Sheikh’s to discuss how they are going to approach the teachings of Islam. To get a central idea (because, once upon a time, the University of al Azhar at Cairo was the teaching center of Islam – but also where many of the preachers who came to the Qutbist school came from).
Is this the MB getting ready to take control of the message? Or, are the Imam’s in the street demanding separation from the state of religion, the one’s protesting it? And what, if anything, do we expect to get from this if we are supporting the MB in the move to control this aspect of “the message”? Because, that is MB’s central idea, to preach the “right way” of Islam.
From this perspective, it is difficult to tell who is the right section to support. Separate the mosque from state and force the MB to fight for each one the old fashion proselytizing way or let them take it so that we have a way to influence it (a naive concept, but interesting)?
Is this us hoping to influence the message of Islam? And, what are we sacrificing in supporting it? The MB are old hands at playing this game. They have survived at least four, if not five, Egyptian governments/rulers by supporting and then opposing whomever is most useful to their survival.
They are “turning Egypt to Islam”. Even the young people who left to go to school in the US at the end of the 90′s, returned in early 2000′s to discover Egypt had become “veiled” and “less open”.
What I also want to know is, are we sacrificing once again, real liberals and potentially real freedom and democracy for some nebulous support of the MB? Even if it puts us opposite of the MB, what good does it serve to continuously support totalitarian ideology?
This entire thing has me continuously wondering WTF are we doing?
Support “self determination” was code for supporting what ever mass of tyrannical scum bags could drag themselves to power and rule over the people with the people cheering on their own enslavement.
The two most dangerous things that could happen right now is if Syria falls to a radical Islamist (a Muslim-Brotherhood type) and Jordan falls as well. If those two things happen, Israel will be totally surrounded by radical Islamists and will be attacked. Add to that the possibility of Iran getting a nuclear bomb, and things don’t look that good for Israel.
Whichever way Syria goes, it’s basically lost to the west. Either Assad stays in power and draws even closer to Iran, or Assad loses power and some mullah or nationalist general takes over. Either option is not too promising.
But we could put a lot, and I mean a lot, of support into the king of Jordan. If we can keep Jordan pro-western, with Iraq still basically neutral (regardless of how much effort Iran is putting into Iraq to prevent that from happening), there is a chance that war can be averted. It may be a small chance, but it’s still a chance. Iran may not risk a war with Israel with Iraq and Jordan not willing to attack Israel, and with the two of them still posing a threat to Iran itself. So Jordan may be the key to stopping the Middle East from totally falling apart and descending into open warfare.
I don’t believe that open warfare will be long off in coming. this may be the only real solution to Israel/Palestine situation. They are going to insist on the death of tens of thousands.
I think the only thing we can hope for is that Iran dies as the Islamic Republic. That is hope. Reality says that we should be preparing for the greater Middle East war that I believe will actually split the western democracies into the “Zionist” “anti-Zionist” camps.
In other words, those who will refuse to let Israel die and those that are willing to give it up for some idea of greater peace with the ME. Those who will be willing to be swallowed by the new, growing Islamic nation.
For oil? Because they have never stopped blaming the Jews for whatever problems they have?
Maybe both.
When I feel windy, I reach for the Beano and head for the John.
Farah and Hamas are two scorpions in a bottle and the chances of a long term reconciliation between the two are remote. Egypt doesn’t grow half the grain needed to feed its masses and–cheerful street celebrations to the contrary–has been priced out of the world grain market and is facing famine.
Israel is strong, unified, democratic and prosperous. Israelis need to stay calm and keep their powder dry. The Arab spring is a wildly optimistic dream and the Arabs will soon wake to their irremediable fecklessness and misery.
When I feel windy, I reach for the Beano and head for the John.
Farah and Hamas are two scorpions in a bottle and the chances of a long term reconciliation between the two are remote. Egypt doesn’t grow half the grain needed to feed its masses and–cheerful street celebrations to the contrary–has been priced out of the world grain market and is facing famine.
Israel is strong, unified, democratic and prosperous. Israelis need to stay calm and keep their powder dry. The Arab spring is a wildly optimistic dream and the Arabs will soon wake to their irremediable fecklessness and misery.
We must elect a new president who will strongly support Israel.
The MB’s running a guy for prez. They say they don’t approve. If he does well, they’ll approve.
The huge rise in Oil prices over the last few decades is what is providing the impetus for all this Mohammedan terrorism and Jihad. Islam has always been Islam and male dominated, misogynistic and Arab supremacist and spread by the sword and by deception and corruption. It was dormant and quiescent for a long time until the oil money stimulated it again. But note I said dormant not dead Islam needs death and destruction the Koran is full of it that and antisemitism. Unlike the Bible which is largely a HISTORICALLY DESCRIPTIVE book written by MEN but inspired by God. The Koran is a PRESCRIPTIVE book filled with contradictions, misogyny, antisemitism, violence, Arab Supremacism and turgid nonsense which Mohammedans nevertheless profess to be the ‘ACTUAL and UNALTERABLE’ words of their God. So no room for reform there what mere MORTAL can reform GOD’s words.
That guy in the picture. Isn’t that Paul Krugman?
A little more about the Oil the Mohammedan Arabs could not find it even though they were sitting right on top of it and even if they could have found it they did not have the ability to recover it nor refine it and no Mohammedan ever invented anything you could use it for no they needed filthy Kaffirs to do that. Even now the bone idle Arabs just pay OTHERS to do all the work and they sit back and take all the profit.
As long as the tunnel vision persists, those inside the Beltway who do more than
lift a finger to counter the sage advice of Michael Ledeen, they will continue to miss the dynamic within the Greater Middle East of the rivalry between KSA, and its allies on the GCC, on one side, and Iran, and its clients and allies on the other.
Mubarak, before he was retired, was on the side of the KSA, for Egypt and KSA were having war games about what happens if Iran sweeps into KSA. Well, those plans are, at best, on the shelf. Therefore, be prepared for a bumpier ride thanks to the deformed souls, scoundrels, scalawags and other reprehensible ilk
who are following in the footsteps of British Prime Minister Baldwin, who established the course that Chamberlain followed.
So, expecting to find a Churchill in today’s US is the same as trying to find
a black guest of honour at the next grand gathering of the KKK.
“Stay close to Pajamas Media for more on the situation.”
Please. I can tell ya all you need to know.
HAMAS sells Drinking Mugs, on their web-site, with Barack Hussein Obama’s face on them. He has on a Muslim/Arab Hat, and the Traditional Muslim Holy Dishrag around his neck. You can go to their site, and get one of your own. Why, you say? Why would HAMAS be selling Drinking Mugs with Effeminate Barry’s face on them? Why, indeed.
HAMAS believes that ABU HUSSAIN has been sent by Allah. They believe that ABU HUSSAIN is their DELIVORER. And they have given him the name: ABU HUSSEIN.
Think about it. Obama’s situation, quite frankly, is a mirror image of MOSES. (You JEWS, pay attention.)
Born to a MUSLIM Father. Taught in MUSLIM SCHOOLS. Raised in MUSLIM MOSQUES. He is now the Leader of the most POWERFULL ALLY of Israel. The United States is THE ONLY REASON that the MUSLIMS haven’t descended on Israel, in waves. And, not only is he ONE OF THEM, but he’s already stated IN HIS BOOKS, that if things flare up, between the ARABS and the JEWS, he’s gonna take the side of the ARABS.
He’s the DELIVORER. He’s their MOSES.
So. If you’re the MUSLIMS, and you’ve been waiting for the RIGHT TIME for all out WAR with Israel? When would you do it?
While your DELIVORER is still in charge of AMERICA? Or would you wait and see if he gets Re-elected?
Get the picture?
“We are looking to Egypt now, hoping that Egypt is prepared to face the Zionist danger at the strategic level.” says Khaled Meshaal.
There is no “Zionist danger” and if there was, Egypt would be in no way prepared to face it.
Any other questions about how far down the rabbit hole these people are? In comparison, people who believe dinosaurs roam the Congo seem rather reasonable.