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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
First Ukraine, Now Israel, and Then America
2023-10-11
BLUF:
[News With Views] Colonel Richard Kemp, a former UK Armed Forces commander, notes, "Hamas leaders, including terrorist boss Ismail Haniyah, have made a number of visits to Moscow since the Ukraine war began, meeting with senior government officials including Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. A delegation from their Gaza terrorist bedfellows, Islamic Jihad, led by its chief, Ziyad al-Nakhalah, also visited Moscow in March. Likewise, leaders of another Iranian proxy, Lebanese Hezbollah, have been welcome guests in Moscow. Hezbollah terrorists fought side by side with Russian troops in Syria and have since been involved in helping Moscow evade sanctions and, according to the US Treasury Department, may have received weapons in return."

In other words, having seen Biden’s no-win strategy in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has decided to unleash the Islamic terrorists on Israel.

The invasion of Ukraine was made in Moscow, and the invasion of Israel was also planned there. Anybody who disputes this fact doesn’t understand the reality of Soviet/Russian communism and the work of the KGB.

To understand what has been planned, I suggest the report, Communists and Muslims: The Hidden Hand of the KGB, by Konstantin Preobrazhensky, a former KGB officer.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian president pledges to continue support for Palestians
2021-08-07
Some text translated via Google Translate. Edited.

One of the first foreign guests of the new Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi was the head of Hamas, Ismail Haniya.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi says the Islamic Republic will continue to support Palestine as the main issue of the Muslim world.

“We have never had and will never have any doubt about this policy. In our view, Palestine has been and will be the first issue of the Muslim world,” Raeisi said in a Friday meeting with head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas Ismail Haniyeh, who took part in the swearing-in ceremony of the Iranian president Thursday.

Raeisi commended Haniyeh’s optimistic stance on the liberation of al-Quds and the end of Palestine’s occupation and said “Operation al-Quds Sword” — the Palestinian resistance groups’ 11-day retaliatory rocket and missile launches in response to Israel’s brutal bombing campaign of Gaza in May — showed that a great leap has been made in the fight against the occupiers.

“Today, signs of great victory of the resistant movement have emerged and Operation al-Quds Sword was one of the signs of this victory,” he said.

In Operation Sword al-Quds, he added, the resistance forces tightened the noose on the Zionist enemy in a way that neither the Zionists themselves nor their supporters could even imagine.

Adds Rozhin:

One of the first foreign guests of the new Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi was the head of Hamas, Ismail Haniya.

Raisi also promised to maintain close relations with Hamas and other Palestinian groups that are fighting against the Israeli occupation and the apartheid regime. Iran's close relationship with Hamas is the result of the diplomatic efforts of Qassem Soleimani, who was able to reconcile Hamas and Hezbollah and overcome the aftermath of the Syrian divide, when Hamas openly supported forces in Syria that opposed Bashar al-Assad. Suleimani made sure that all major Palestinian groups accepted the basic principle of the "Axis of Resistance" - the main enemies are the United States and Israel, so Shiites and Sunnis should not be at enmity with each other, weakening themselves in the face of the main enemy of all Muslims. Hamas, although not immediately, adopted this principle,

Regarding the shelling on the Lebanese-Israeli border and the nighttime bombing of Gaza (Israel claims that "fireballs" were launched from Gaza), Hamas said it fully supports Hezbollah's attacks against the Zionist enemy
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Beautiful daughter of Iran’s Qassem #Soleimani says the likes of Hamas’ Ismail Haniyah, Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, and militia leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi all capable of avenging the death of her father
2020-01-11
It’s hard to tell if she is beautiful from that, but clearly she is no singer. The real question is why she is speaking so publicly when she has three brothers to take care of it. But don’t worry, dear child, we already have those names on our little list. Your father will not be alone in Hell for long.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
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The Grand Turk
Erdogan allowing Hamas to plan attacks on Israel from Turkey
2019-12-18
[Arutz 7] - The Turkish government is hosting Hamas terrorists on its soil and permitting them to plan terror attacks on Israeli targets, a report released by The Telegraph Tuesday night claims.

According to the report, transcripts of Israeli police interrogations of terrorists show that senior Hamas terrorists are using Istanbul as a center for the terror group’s operations abroad. Terrorist leaders operating out of Turkey’s largest city direct Hamas activities in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria, the report added, including the a foiled plot to assassinate the mayor of Jerusalem.

Senior Hamas terrorist Zacharia Najib plotted an assassination attack in Jerusalem, pressing 23-year-old terrorist Adham Muselmani, a Jerusalem Arab who had been recruited for the attack, to target either then-Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat, then-MK Yehuda Glick (Likud), or then-Police Chief Roni Alsheich.

The plot was later foiled after Muselmani returned to Jerusalem and tried to purchase a pistol for the attack, only to be arrested by Israeli authorities.

While Israel has discussed Hamas’ operations on Turkish soil with Turkey’s government, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has refused to crackdown on Hamas terrorists in his country, or even to interfere with their plots against Israel.

Last weekend, Erdogan met with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyah, vowing to continue support for the terror group.

"We will keep on supporting our brothers in Palestine."

Turkey’s tacit support for Hamas violates a 2015 US-brokered deal with Israel, in which Turkey agreed to block Hamas from plotting attacks on Israel from Turkish soil.

"Israel is extremely concerned that Turkey is allowing Hamas terrorists to operate from its territory, in planning and engaging in terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians," the Israeli Foreign Ministry said, according to The Telegraph report.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian media denies relations with Hamas, claims Muslim Brotherhood links
2019-06-09
[AlMasdar] A media source told the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on Friday that Syria has not restored relations with Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,, despite the claims by the Paleostinian group’s leader, Ismail Haniyah, earlier this month.

"The stance of Syria on this issue is principled," the SANA source said, adding "this stance, in the past, was built on the fact that Hamas was a resistance movement against ’Israel’, but, later it became clear that it is the blood of Moslem Brüderbund that dominates this movement when it supported the bully boyz in Syria and engaged in the scheme that ’Israel’ wanted."

The SANA source said that all the news circulated will never change Syria’s attitude towards those who have been rejected by the Syrian people since the beginning of the war.

Haniyah told Sputnik News in an exclusive interview that Hamas had accepted Syria’s view on the opposition groups.

Hamas, who is allied with Iran, cut off relations with Syria in 2012 after their then leader, Khaled Mesha’al, abruptly left Damascus for Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
Upon his arrival in Qatar, Mesha’al heavily criticized Damascus and adopted Doha’s narrative on the Syrian conflict.

Since then, Syria and Hamas have had strained relations, with the former shifting their primary support for the Paleostinian people to groups like the PFLP, PFLP-GC, PIJ, DFLP, and Fatah al-Intifada.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF releases photos of Hamas posts flattened in response to rocket fire
2019-03-17
[IsraelTimes] Targets in Gazoo include headquarters where terror group directed operations in West Bank as well as a compound used by its special naval force.

The Israeli military said a massive sortie carried out in Gazoo last week in response to rocket fire on Tel Aviv flattened a "terror headquarters" of the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, group and naval posts belonging to the group, among other sites.

Pictures released by the military early Sunday showed extensive damage to several of the sites hit during the round of Arclight airstrikes early Friday, which came after two rockets were fired at Tel Aviv in what Israeli authorities now apparently believe to have been an accident.

Among the sites hit were a headquarters in the Rimal neighborhood of Gazoo City used by the terror group to coordinate its operations in the West Bank. The army said such operations included "directing terror attacks, building terror infrastructure, transferring money and providing logistical assistance in attacks against Israeli citizens."

Another two sites targeted during the IDF air raid early Friday morning were military outposts belonging to Hamas’s special naval force The sites were also used to produce and store weapons used by the reconnaissance unit, the army said.

Before and after aerial photos of both released by the army appeared to show the buildings reduced to rubble.

On Friday, the army said it had carried out some 100 airstrikes in Gazoo, in one of the heaviest bombardments in years.

The army said at the time that it hit an underground manufacturing site of standard-grade rockets in the Gazoo Strip, as well as a military training site that the IDF said served as Hamas’s drone center in the south of the enclave.

A position belonging to Hamas’s military wing, near its leader Ismail Haniya’s family home on the outskirts of Gazoo City, was damaged, with rubble strewn across the road, an AFP journalist said after the strikes.

Four Paleostinians were maimed in the Gazoo strikes, the enclave’s Hamas-run health ministry said.
The Jerusalem Post adds:
Local Paleostinian media in Gazoo said that Israeli naval vessels also took part in the strikes off the coast of Rafah. According to the IDF, The naval power infrastructures are held in these compounds and are used to create weapons for the benefit of the force.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas: End to Israel's Gaza blockade 'around the corner'
2018-08-22
Y’all just keep thinking that, click your heels together and say, “There’s no place like home!”
[Al Jazeera] Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, leader Ismail Haniya said an end to Israel's decade-long blockade of Gazoo was "around the corner" as talk of a possible truce deal intensifies.

Indirect negotiations between Gazoo's Hamas rulers and Israel brokered by Egyptian and UN officials have reportedly included discussion on easing the blockade, but by no means a complete lifting of it.

Speaking to thousands of Paleostinians during prayers for the Moslem Eid al-Adha holiday on Tuesday, Haniya, head of Hamas' political bureau, did not directly address the possibility of a truce, mooted in Israeli and Paleostinian media for weeks.

"Thanks to these marches and resistance, we are just around the corner from closing the page on this unjust blockade," Haniya said. "We are on our way to ending this unjust blockade of Gazoo."

Protests have taken place in Gazoo every Friday along Israel's fence since March 30 against the Israeli blockade and for UN Resolution 194, which defines Paleostinians' right to return to their homes they were expelled from in 1948 with the creation of the state of Israel.

The Israeli army has responded to the protests by killing 170 Paleostinian demonstrators and wounding more than 18,000.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli strike kills two Hamas militants in Gaza
2018-08-08
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Israeli strike on Tuesday killed two forces of Evil of the Gazoo Strip’s ruling Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement after shots were fired at soldiers, Gazook and Israeli officials said.

The krazed killer group’s military wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, confirmed in a statement that the dead men were its fighters, naming them as Ahmed Murjan and Abdel-Hafez al-Silawi.

It said a series of kabooms had targeted a military site while it was being visited by big shots, without naming them.

An Israeli military statement, apparently referring to the same incident, said that the army returned fire after shots were fired at its soldiers from a Hamas post in the northern Gazoo Strip, next to the border with Israel.

Paleostinian security sources said that the Israeli attack was in the north of the strip.

A video distributed by the Israeli army appeared to show a tank striking a military post in the Gazoo Strip.

The military said it was prepared "to target any aggression against Israel and holds Hamas responsible for everything happening in and from the Gazoo Strip."

It added that no Israeli troops were maimed in the exchange.

Hamas warned Israel that it would pay for the attack, without elaborating.

"The resistance cannot allow the occupation to impose a policy of bombing sites and targeting fighters without paying the price," it said in a statement.

Speaking later, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya condemned what he called a "crime."

He said the movement was facing "rapid political and field developments."

Since Paleostinian protests and festivities along the Gazoo border erupted at the end of March, at least 160 Paleostinians have been killed by Israeli fire.

One Israeli soldier has been rubbed out by a Paleostinian sniper.

The protests call for Paleostinians to be able to return to the land they or their families fled or were expelled from in the 1948 war surrounding the creation of Israel.

Israel says any such return would mean its end as a Jewish state.

Gazoo’s rulers Hamas have fought three wars with Israel since 2008.

The United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
 and Egypt are currently trying to secure a deal between Israel and Hamas for a lasting truce.

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Africa North
Egypt begins security operation against ‘terrorists’, closes Gaza border
2018-02-10
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egypt on Friday launched a major security operation involving the army and police against "terrorist and criminal elements and organizations" across the country, the army front man said.

The army front man said the operation covers areas in Sinai, the Delta and the Western Desert and it follows a three-month deadline set by President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi to crush a years-long Islamist insurgency.

"The law enforcement forces began this morning implementing the comprehensive confrontation against the terrorist and criminal elements and organizations in northern and central Sinai," an army front man said in a televised statement.

Operational and training maneuvers
The army front man said the operation will involve operational and training maneuvers to tighten state control on the country's crossing points with neighboring countries, and urged full cooperation with the law enforcement forces involved in the operation.

Residents reported hearing extensive air activities above the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, which is close to the area of operations in northern and central Sinai.

Security forces have for years battled an ISIS insurgency in North Sinai that has killed hundreds of soldiers and police. The gunnies have expanded their targets to include civilians over the last year or so.

Closing the Gazoo border
Egypt closed its border on Friday with the Gazoo Strip, Paleostinian officials said, after Cairo launched a major operation against jihadists in the Sinai Peninsula.

The head of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, the Islamist group which runs Gazoo, was however permitted to travel to Cairo for talks before the border was closed a day earlier than planned.

Friday was supposed to be the final of a three-day border opening for humanitarian cases from Gazoo, the first time the Rafah border crossing with Egypt had been open in 2018.

"The Rafah border was closed today due to the security situation in Sinai, we were informed by the Egyptian authorities," said Saleh al-Zaq, head of the civil affairs committee which controls the borders.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniya crossed the border to Cairo for talks with Egyptian leaders before Rafah was closed, Hamas front man Fawzi Barhum said.

He said the talks would include an Egyptian-brokered reconciliation deal between Hamas and rival Paleostinian movement Fatah that has faltered, with multiple deadlines missed.

It was believed to be Haniya’s first trip outside Gazoo since the United States included him on its terror blacklist last month.

Live updates from Al Ahram for Day 1: Egypt's army launches 'Comprehensive Operation Sinai 2018' to purge country of terrorism
Specific accomplishments extracted from the thing as of 20:00 p.m. local time:
19:30 Egyptian authorities have decided to close all schools in North Sinai until further notice starting Saturday. The Ministry of Higher Education is also suspending studies at universities and other institutions of higher education for one week.

17:15 Hours after the Egyptian army started Operation Sinai 2018 to fight terrorism this morning, the interior ministry said it killed three members of the banned Hasm terrorist group in a shootout in an under-construction residential building in Cairo.

The ministry said its comprehensive security plan to curb the group’s actions in Qalioubiya, Daqahliya, Beheira, Menoufiya, Sharqiya, Assiut, and Fayoum led to the arrest of 14 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood following raids on their hideouts on Friday, the ministry said.
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Terror Networks
US places Egyptian terrorist groups Hasm and Lewaa Al-Thawraa on terror list
2018-02-01
[AlAhram] The US State Department placed on Wednesday two Egyptian terrorist groups, Hasm and Lewaa al-Thawra
...The Revolution Brigade, which along with Hasm (Decisiveness or Determination) is one of the fighting arms of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, established to fight back against the overthrow of President Morsi...
, on its terror list, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement.

The US also put the head of the Paleostinian Islamist movement Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, Ismail Haniya, on its terror blacklist and has hit him with sanctions.

The US government also placed sanctions on Harakat al-Sabireen, a small Iran-affiliated holy warrior group that splintered from the Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
 and operates in Gazoo, according to the US Secretary of State.
Goodness, that’s four branches of the Muslim Brotherhood getting sanctions all at once. Someone appears to be reading the same sources we are.
"These designations target key terrorist groups and leaders ‐ including two sponsored and directed by Iran ‐ who are threatening the stability of the Middle East, undermining the grinding of the peace processor, and attacking our allies Egypt and Israel," Tillerson said in a statement.

The Egyptian government has linked Hasm and Lewaa al-Thawra with the Moslem Brüderbund group, which is banned and designated a terrorist organization in Egypt.

Hasm and Lewaa al-Thawra have grabbed credit for several terrorist attacks in Egypt that have killed dozens of police and army personnel.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas leader Ismail Haniya added to US 'terror list'
2018-02-01
[Al Jazeera] The United States has designated Ismail Haniya, the senior political leader of Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede,, as a "global terrorist".

The US State Department issued a blurb on Wednesday saying that Haniya "has close links with Hamas' military wing" and "has been a proponent of armed struggle, including against civilians".

Haniya's placement on the "terror list" means that there will be a travel ban on him, and that any US-based financial assets he may have will be frozen.

There will also be a ban on any US citizen or company from doing business with him.

Hamas: US decision on Ismail Haniya 'will not deter us'

[Al Jazeera] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, has rejected a United States decision to place the group's political chief, Ismail Haniya, on its global "terror list", calling the move a "dangerous development".

In a statement released on Wednesday, Hamas said the US State Department's decision is a "violation of international law, which has given the Paleostinian people a right to defend themselves against [Israeli] occupation, and to choose their leaders.

"This decision demonstrates the full American bias in favour of the Israeli occupation, and provides an official cover for Israeli crimes against the Paleostinian people," the statement added.

Hamas, the Paleostinian political movement that governs the Israeli-occupied Gazoo Strip, said it calls on the US administration to "reverse" this decision and to stop its "hostile policies.
Update from The Times of Israel at 2:00 pm ET:
PLO condemns US blacklisting of Hamas leader Haniyeh

Israel hails decision as 'necessary step in the fight against global terrorism,' says other countries should 'follow American leadership'.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas demands formal end to peace process
2018-01-03
[ISRAELNATIONALNEWS] Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", leader Ismail Haniya called today for the formulation of a new overall strategy aimed at thwarting US and Israeli decisions on Jerusalem and re-positioning the Paleostinian issue as a national liberation struggle centered on "popular intifada".

Speaking at a presser Haniya stressed the importance of formulating "a united Arab-Islamic plan in coordination with international bodies that support Paleostinian rights" and feel wronged by US policy in the region.

In order to preempt the "American blockade", Haniya suggested working on two political levels: One - declaring the end of the grinding of the peace processor, and the other - a demand to cease all aspects of normalization with Israel.

He accused Israel of seeking to ignite religious wars in the region in order to exhaust the Arab states and involve them in their internal problems. Haniyeh said that the "war for Al Quds" would be decided "in the streets, hills, and houses of Jerusalem and the rest of the Paleostinian areas through struggle and determination".

Hamas continues to incite the Arab public into confrontations with Israel, in addition to attempting numerous terror attacks from Judea and Samaria and persuading the Paleostinian Authority to renounce the Oslo Accords, stop security coordination, and return to confrontation with Israel as a policy instrument.
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