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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
With truce talks stuck, Israel said planning Rafah incursion in April or May
2024-03-31
[IsraelTimes] Pro-Hezbollah newspaper says offensive will come after Ramadan and will last 4-8 weeks; Israel reportedly vows to notify Cairo in advance of an IDF operation into Philadelphi Route

Following the apparent failure of the latest round of negotiations in 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...
, Israel is not willing to make any further concessions to Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, and is gearing up for a ground operation in Rafah, a Lebanese newspaper reported Wednesday.

The pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar daily, citing Egyptian sources who were said to have been in contact with Israel Defense Forces officials, reported that the expected offensive would come after Eid al-Fitr — the three-day holiday that follows Ramadan and ends around April 12 — or in early May at the latest.

The ground incursion inside the last bastion of Hamas in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
 Strip would last from four to eight weeks, the sources said, and would be accompanied by an evacuation of the civilian population sheltering in Rafah, which amounts to about 1.5 million people, toward the center of the Strip along specific routes and at specific times, announced to civilians in each area of the city in advance.

The mass evacuation would be monitored from the ground and the air to ensure that no Hamas fighters or Israeli hostages are hidden among the Gazook civilians, the Egyptian officials said.

Four Hamas battalions remain in Rafah, and it is believed that Hamas leadership and at least some of the hostages — 130 of those kidnapped on October 7 remain in Gaza, not all of them alive — are in the city bordering Egypt.

Cairo expressed its deep concerns over an IDF operation in the Rafah area, noting that it could lead to a further escalation not only in Gaza, but in the whole region, al-Akhbar reported.

Israel reportedly vowed to notify the Egyptians in advance of an IDF incursion into the Philadelphi corridor, which runs west of Rafah along the border between Gaza and Egypt.

The Lebanese paper also reported that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi refused a request by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a direct line to remain in contact.

Additionally, it claimed that negotiations are underway under the auspices of UAE mediation to bring medication to Israeli hostages in exchange for large amounts of medical aid to be allowed into the Strip.

Netanyahu and the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra)
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
 have been locked in a growing public spat over a potential ground operation in Rafah.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one...
 on Wednesday, former Hamas politburo head Khaled Mashaal said that Israeli hostages will remain captive until Israel halts hostilities, withdraws its troops from Gaza, allows displaced civilians to return to their homes, and ends a blockade on the Strip, adding that the terror group will not budge but indicating it is continuing to negotiate with Israel.

Speaking at a women’s event in Jordan, Mashaal said that Hamas is waging a "negotiating battle that is no less fierce" than its armed fight to achieve a halt of the Israeli "aggression." He seemed to imply that the group is preparing for an intensification of Israeli operations at the end of Ramadan, saying there are "threats" looming at the end of the holy Moslem month.

Mashaal said Hamas will keep on fighting on the ground, and urges Moslems around the world to support the struggle so that "their blood will mix with the blood of the people of Paleostine." He also called for financial donations for the people of Gaza.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
'Necessary step': Hamas on its Oct 7 attacks on Israel - the path to erasing the Zionist entity
2024-01-22
The word "demented" does spring to mind.
Are they not required by the hudna principle to attack the to-be-conquered unbelievers as soon as they’re able? They were able, so they jumped the Iranian gun, and are now paying the price. Just like last time.
[GEO.TV] The Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
 bad boy group said Sunday its October 7 attack on Israel was a "necessary step" against Israeli occupation of the Paleostinian territories.

In its 16-page report, the Paleostinian resistance group said the attacks were "a necessary step and a normal response to confront all Israeli conspiracies against the Paleostinian people".

Urging an "immediate halt of the Israeli aggression on Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, the crimes and ethnic cleansing committed against the entire Gaza population," the group has rejected any international and Israeli efforts to decide the territory's post-war future.

"We stress that the Paleostinian people have the capacity to decide their future and to arrange their internal affairs," the statement said, adding that "no party in the world" had the right to decide on their behalf.
The Times of Israel reports on more Hamas bluntness:
Senior Hamas official Khaled Mashaal addressed the impact of the October 7 onslaught on the Paleostinian people during an interview with a Kuwaiti podcaster earlier this month, saying that he believes it reignited "the dream and the hope of one state for Paleostinians from the River to the Sea and from the north to the south."

Mashaal rejected the notion of a future Paleostinian state existing within the framework of the two-state solution, saying that Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
 rejects the idea, "because it means we would get a promise for a Paleostinian state, yet would be required to recognize the legitimacy of the other state — the Zionist entity."

"This is unacceptable," he continued. "We demand to be liberated, to get rid of the occupation and to have our independent state. Israel is my enemy, it is not my concern."

The Hamas official explained that although the terror group’s official policy is to seek a singular Paleostinian state that would replace Israel inside of the borders established in 1948, it chooses to fall in line with other Paleostinian entities, including the Paleostinian Authority, in seeking a Paleostinian state within the 1967 borders — for the time being.

"We will not give up our right to Paleostine in its entirety," he said, "but in order to establish a common ground and a joint Paleostinian plan with the other Paleostinian forces, and in line with the Arab position, Hamas agreed to a completely independent state within the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as its capital, with the right of return [for refugees and their descendants] included, without recognizing the legitimacy of the Zionist entity."

This, he explained, would lay the groundwork for a future Paleostinian state established within the 1967 borders to then expand, "without relinquishing any of our rights or any part of our land."

"I believe that October 7 has enhanced this conviction, has narrowed the disagreements and has turned the idea of liberating Paleostine from the river to the sea into a realistic idea that has already begun," he added.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Jordan’s King Abdullah II: Palestinian refugees entering Jordan or Egypt is ‘red line’
2023-10-19
[IsraelTimes] Jordanian King Abdullah II says that neither his country nor Egypt will accept Paleostinian refugees, declaring it a "red line."

At a presser held after meeting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, Abdullah says that "some of the usual suspects are trying to create facts on the ground," according to Sky News Arabia.

"There will be no refugees in Jordan and no refugees in Egypt."

Abdullah references Israeli calls for Gazooks to evacuate toward the south of the Strip, near the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, ahead of an expected IDF ground offensive in the north.

Khaled Mashaal, a prominent Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
 figure and the former political leader of the group, said in an interview yesterday that Gazooks will not leave the Strip no matter what, and that their displacement would harm Egyptian national security and would pose a danger for Jordan, implying that a mass exodus of Paleostinians to a neighboring country could set also a precedent for the West Bank.

Nevertheless, there have been reports that Egypt is making preparations to host a limited number of civilians fleeing the conflict in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas gave sanctuary to Islamic Jihad leaders during 5-day Gaza operation — report
2023-05-16
Limited information on a very interesting subject. Hopefully more will be revealed later.
[IsraelTimes] Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
 terror group didn’t directly join fighting, but reportedly offered support after Israel launched offensive; Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
said to offer PIJ $5 million for every day of fighting

Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, provided hiding places for leaders of Paleostinian 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...
 during Israel’s five-day offensive in the Gaza Strip, according to a report Sunday.

The terror group’s military wing lent its assistance after Israel began Operation Shield and Arrow with the liquidation of three senior PIJ commanders on Tuesday, Channel 12 news reported, without citing sources.

Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, did not actively take part in the recent round of violence, effectively helping to keep it limited.

In its campaign, Israel eliminated some of PIJ’s big shotship in a series of Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s, while the terror group fired some 1,500 rockets at Israel until an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire came into effect Saturday night.

Hamas and PIJ are both part of the so-called "Joint Operations Room" of Paleostinian factions in the Gaza Strip. After the truce, the groups said that "the round of fighting is over" but warned that if "the policy of liquidations [renews]... we are ready with a firm finger on the trigger."

Channel 12 also said that Iran, a major backer of Islamic Jihad, promised the terror group $5 million for every day of conflict with Israel, without providing a source for the claim.

Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach...
 as the fighting was going on in Gaza, the head of Hamas abroad, Khaled Mashaal, was filmed attending a wedding in 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...
Kan news reported that some Paleostinians expressed anger at Mashaal on social media, questioning his decision to celebrate while fighting was ongoing in the Strip.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Islamists Playing Israel's Political Game
2021-04-22
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Whenever Islamists make a rather controversial move in their political game of chess with Israel, ideological thumpers of the Paleostinian cause fall into a deafening silence.

Although they fuss over Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
 hosting a concert or the opening a café, Islamists become oddly silent when leading Islamist figures warm up to Israel.

Islamists have especially kept quiet after Mansour Abbas, an Arab-Israeli politician who heads the Raam party— the political wing of the Southern Islamic Movement —voted against dissolving the Knesset and backed holding a new round of legislative elections.

Abbas’s move clearly signaled that Islamists now support Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset and that Raam could potentially lend him a helping hand in forming a new government.

More so, media reports have warned that Raam decamping the predominantly Arab Joint List party and announcing it was ready to cooperate with Netanyahu could ultimately shake the foundations of Arab political institutions in Israel.

Raam assisting Netanyahu at parliament brings up fundamental and ethical questions like: Where are the supporters of the Paleostinian cause? What positions are Islamists taking? And where did all the criticism go?

Some may argue that there is no harm in Paleostinians playing their political game both rationally and pragmatically.

Frankly, there is nothing damaging about Paleostinians adopting a "give and take" approach, one can even say that it is overdue. But this is about Islamists looking to outbid rational and moderate parties in the region, especially Saudi Arabia.

They have gone beyond the pale in committing forgery, creating crises and pretending to care.

Arab leftists that claim to be staunch supporters of the Paleostinian cause did nothing to stop Islamist movements, like the Moslem Brüderbund, from double dealing with Israel and the West. Today, hypocrisy falls short in describing the Brotherhood’s duplicity.

While they are quick to slam regional opponents for taking steps towards Israel, Islamists stumble when it comes to condemn Raam’s election moves.

Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
, Khaled Mashaal, and some Paleostinian Authority (PA) leaders who once fiercely attacked the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for normalizing ties with Israel did not do the same to Islamists moving closer to Netanyahu.

"We are acting according to the expectations of our people," said Abbas.

But what would happen if the PA or Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, truly acted upon the hopes of Paleostinians everywhere?

What is certain is that the Paleostinians are tired of buying into slogans and internal divisions. They want to establish both a state and peace.

If there were free and fair elections, or a real vote, Paleostinians would strongly come out against all current leaders, regardless of orientation.

They would have collectively urged their leaders to work for releasing Marwan Barghouti as hard as Haniyeh mourned Qassem Soleimani
, whom he dubbed the "martyr of Jerusalem."

In short, Islamists need to quit raising the stakes.
Related:
Mansour Abbas: 2021-03-26 We need to stop blaming Bibi for electoral deadlock
Mansour Abbas: 2021-03-24 Netanyahu short for right-wing coalition, would need Arab support
Mansour Abbas: 2021-01-28 Joint List of Arab parties partly disintegrating as talks with Ra’am founder
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Khaled Mashaal tapped as international Hamas director
2021-04-13
[IsraelTimes] Former Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", chief Khaled Mashaal, who has not held an official leadership position in the organization for years, will return to serve as the director of Hamas’s diaspora under his successor Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
, official Hamas media announce.

Hamas’s internal organization is divided into four areas: Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, the West Bank, Israeli prisons, and abroad. Mashaal, who currently lives in 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...
, is well-connected with Hamas’s key patrons in Doha and Ankara.

Mashaal had reportedly launched a leadership struggle against Haniyeh for the top spot in the terror group during its elections, which were held secretly over the past two months.

The announcement that Mashaal is to serve as Hamas’ second-in-command as head of its diaspora division makes it more likely that Haniyeh — with no obvious challenger in sight — will serve another four-year term as chief of the organization’s political bureau.
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Africa Horn
Sudan said to revoke citizenship of top Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, others
2020-12-19
[IsraelTimes] The reported move, in possible effort to show country is fighting rather than backing terrorism, comes days after US removed Khartoum from blacklist of state sponsors of terror.

Sudan has revoked the citizenship of top Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, leader, Khaled Mashaal, as well as that of some 3,000 other foreign nationals, according to multiple Sudanese outlets and other Arabic media in recent days.

The move comes after the US earlier this week removed Sudan from its state sponsors of terrorism blacklist and declared a "fundamental change" in relations, less than two months after the Arab nation pledged to normalize ties with Israel.
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Hamas leader invited to Moscow as Russia seeks greater Mideast involvement
2018-11-29
[IsraelTimes] Invitation comes days after Russia reissues offer to mediate between Israel and the Paleostinians.

The top leader of the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group said Wednesday he has received an invitation to make an official visit to Moscow, as Russia steps up its efforts to become involved in mediating the Israel-Paleostinian conflict.

The office of Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
 said the invitation was delivered by a visiting Russian diplomat. The statement did not elaborate on the purpose of the visit. Russia maintains high-level contact with Hamas, which Israel, the US and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
 classify as a terrorist group.

Haniyeh was elected as Hamas’ top leader last year. His predecessor, Khaled Mashaal, visited Moscow frequently.

Russia has hosted several rounds of talks aimed at forging reconciliation between Hamas and Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
’ Fatah party.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas said to meet with Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Tehran
2017-08-09
[IsraelTimes] A high-level delegation from the terror group is in Iran to open a ’new page’ with old ally

Senior members of the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group met on Monday in Iran with representatives of the powerful Iranian Revolutionary Guard, according to Arabic media reports.

A high-level Hamas delegation arrived in Tehran on Friday in order to attend the inauguration of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, and to "turn a new page in bilateral relations" between the two sides, according to a statement by Hamas.

This is the first Hamas visit to Iran since the group elected new leadership earlier in 2017. The rapprochement between Hamas and Iran is reportedly being facilitated by the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, which is supported by Tehran.

The delegation consisted of Hamas political bureau members Ezzat al-Resheq, Saleh Arouri, Zaher Jabarin, and Osama Hamdan.

During its stay in Iran, the group met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday, as well as a number of other senior Iranian officials.

The Pan-Arab daily As-Sharq al-Awsat, which is Saudi-influenced, reported that members of the Hamas delegation representing the terror group’s military wing also met with members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard ‐ (IRGC) -- a paramilitary force that answers directly to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei -- and discussed "common issues."

Relations between Hamas and Iran soured after the Sunni Paleostinian group, whose ex-leader Khaled Mashaal was once based in Damascus, refused to back the non-Sunni axis led by Syrian president Bashir al-Assad in the ongoing civil war, which started in 2011. Iran is backing Assad in the war.

But, according to the report, Iran is keen to restore ties with Hamas after Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
 was elected as head of Hamas’s political bureau and Yahya Sinwar as the group’s Gazoo chief. Both are considered to be more open to reconciliation with Iran than Mashaal was.

A-Sharq al-Awsat reported in May that Hamas and Iran conducted intensive talks in Leb, in which members of the Iranian revolutionary guard participated. According to the report, an agreement was struck between the two sides that would see diplomatic relations return to what they were prior to the outbreak of the Syrian civil war. The agreement was reportedly supported by commander of the IRGC’s al-Quds Brigades Qassam Soleimani, Haniyeh, and Sinwar.
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Arabia
Qatar said to order several Hamas terror chiefs to get out
2017-06-04
Perhaps next we can do something about CAIR and ISNA back in America...
[IsraelTimes] Coordinators of Islamist group’s activities in West Bank among those reportedly being booted, under pressure from the US and Soddy Arabia.

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...
 is expelling several senior Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", members from the Gulf kingdom, in response to outside pressure, a report said Saturday, in a major blow to the Gazoo-based terror group.

Qatar has been a major backer of Hamas, pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the Gazoo Strip and sheltering the group’s top leadership in recent years.

Hamas was recently informed of the decision by a representative of the Gulf kingdom, who gave Hamas a list of members who must leave Qatar’s capital of Doha, Hebrew media quoted a report from the Hezbollah affiliated al-Mayadeen television station as saying.

According to the report, those singled out are Hamas members tasked with coordinating with the terror group’s operatives in the West Bank, and the list of names reportedly came from interrogations of Paleostinian security prisoners by Israel.

The Qatari’s reportedly apologized for the move, but said it came as a result of "external pressures" on Doha.

It gave no details on where the outside pressure came from, but it comes just two weeks after US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
 met with Moslem leaders in Saudi Arabia, calling on them to form a coalition against Islamist terrorism.

Israel’s Channel 10 TV on Saturday night quoted Paleostinian officials saying the pressure on Qatar to expel Hamas operatives came from Saudi Arabia and the United States. The sources added that the list of names was "only the beginning" and that further expulsions would follow.

In Trump’s speech he labelled Hamas as a terror group and bunched it with other terror organizations such as Hezbollah and the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
. While in Riyadh, Trump also met with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.

Qatar has also been under fire in recent days from its Gulf neighbors for its closer ties with Iran and the Moslem Brüderbund.

Since Hamas wrested control of Gazoo from the Paleostinian Authority in a bloody coup in 2007, Qatar has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the territory and backed Hamas diplomatically, sheltering its exiled former leader Khaled Mashaal. It was not clear Saturday if Mashaal was among those ordered to leave Qatar.

In 2012, its then-emir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, became the first head of state to visit Gazoo under Hamas rule, pledging to raise $400 million toward reconstruction.

Mashaal decamped to Doha from the group’s former headquarters in Damascus in 2012 over reported disagreements with the Syrian regime over its brutal crackdown on protesters and rebels in the Syrian civil war, who like Hamas are primarily Sunni Moslems.

In addition to Qatar, a number of Hamas operatives are also reported to live in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, namely Saleh al-Arouri, a senior Hamas member who Israel says is in charge of training terror cells in the West Bank.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Ismail Haniyeh elected new head of Hamas
2017-05-07
In which the expected is announced to have occurred.
[IsraelTimes] Haniyeh replaces Khaled Mashaal who served two terms as the terror group’s political bureau chief.

Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",’s former chief in the Gazoo Strip, Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
, has been elected to lead the Paleostinian terror group, succeeding Khaled Mashaal, the organization announced Saturday.

Mashaal, who lives in exile in 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...
, has completed the maximum two terms in office. He became the leader of Hamas in 2004 following the Israeli liquidations of Hamas founders Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi.

"The Hamas Shura Council on Saturday elected Ismail Haniyeh as head of the movement’s political bureau," the group’s official website announced.

Haniyeh is expected to remain in the Gazoo Strip, though this may make it harder for him to manage the group’s international ties abroad, as traveling in and out of the Strip is difficult.

Haniyeh had long been seen as the leading candidate, with others in the running including Mashaal deputy Moussa Abu Marzouk and senior figure Muhammas Nazal.

Hamas front man Fawzi Barhoum said the group hoped Haniyeh’s election "would see opening to the region."

The 54-year-old takes charge of Hamas as it seeks to ease its international isolation. On Monday the group issued a new program that accepts the notion of a Paleostinian state in territories captured by Israel in the Six Day War of 1967 while still calling for the destruction of Israel.
Old milk in a new bottle.
Mashaal, 60, has led the Hamas political bureau since 1996. He is a veteran with close ties to regional powers Qatar, Egypt and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
. He has been key to Hamas’s attempts to break out of political isolation following its violent takeover of Gazoo.

Haniyeh: From refugee camp to Hamas leader

[IsraelTimes] Though seen as a relatively pragmatic voice in the group, he remains wholly committed to terrorism and ’liberation’ of Israel.

Haniyeh’s modest home in the narrow alleys of Gazoo City’s Shati refugee camp next to the Mediterranean Sea is under constant guard.
Sure, it's modest above ground. But it is the sprawling, luxurious tunnel complex underneath, never shown to international journalists, that really matters.
Also known as Abu Abed, he was born in the same camp in 1963 to parents who fled when Israel was created in 1948. They had previously lived in Ashkelon, in southern Israel near the border with the Gazoo Strip.
Yes, but how much longer than the required three years had they been in Ashkelon? Whether they arrived in 1944 or 944, they still were entitled to call themselves refugees.
Haniyeh, a father of 13, was educated at a UN-run refugee school, later earning an education degree from the Islamic University and becoming a university administrator.
In other words, he is steeped in indoctrination and doublespeak, with no leavening of reality.
Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, has frequently highlighted his modest background as a counterpoint to officials within the Paleostinian Authority who have been accused of being corrupt and too easily compliant with Israel or the United States.

Haniyeh was jugged
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
 several times by Israel during the first intifada, or uprising, which erupted in 1987, and was deported to southern Leb in December 1992 along with hundreds of Hamas and 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...
 members.

He first rose to prominence as bureau chief under Hamas’s spiritual father Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the holy man who advocated suicide kabooms against Israel and who was assassinated by Israel in 2004.

Haniyeh escaped liquidation in September 2003 when an Israeli aircraft bombed a house where he and Yassin were meeting.

In 2006 he led Hamas to a shock legislative election victory over Abbas’s Fatah and became prime minister. The international community however refused to deal with any government in which Hamas participated until it renounced violence and recognized Israel and past peace agreements, which it has never done.

The resulting deadlock led to mounting friction between Hamas and Fatah which culminated in Hamas’s seizure of Gazoo in 2007.

Always dressed impeccably in Western-style suits
...translation: spending his money peacocking around instead of on housing for his numerous offspring...
and a sharp orator, Haniya has exemplified Hamas’s internal struggle between the traditional and the modern, between terrorism and mainstream politics.
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Africa North
Egypt opens Rafah crossing for three days to students, humanitarian cases
2017-02-12
[AlAhram] Egyptian authorities opened the Rafah border crossing with Gazoo Strip on Saturday for three days to allow the passage of students and elderly in need for treatment, Paleostinain news agency WAFA reported.

The crossing in northern Sinai is the only way for 1.8 million Paleostinians living in Israeli-besieged Gazoo to enter and exit the strip.

Since October 2014, the crossing has been more or less closed by Egyptian authorities due to security concerns.

Cairo periodically opens the border to allow civilians with foreign passports, Paleostinian students, and those with medical needs to travel back and forth.

The crossing was last opened temporarily in late January.
It is now almost mid-February, so it's been closed about three weeks. Golly.
The Times of Israel explains:
The Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",-run Gazoo Strip reopened Saturday, reflecting the improved ties between Cairo and the Islamist terror organization. Since the beginning of the year, the crossing has opened with a much greater frequency following talks between Cairo and Hamas to resolve long-simmering tensions.

Last month Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
 led a delegation to Cairo, the first visit by the group’s top leader in over three years. The visit represents a desire by both sides to rebuild trust after tension since the 2013 military ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, who hails from the Moslem Brüderbund group, Hamas’s mother movement. Authorities accused the group of supporting hard boyz to carry out attacks in Egypt.

In recent weeks, Cairo has increased the number of people allowed to exit through the Rafah Border Crossing, Gazoo’s main gateway to the outside world. It also has begun to allow Gazoo to import commercial goods through Rafah for the first time since 2013, and sent public signals that it is interested in improving relations.

Haniyeh left Gazoo in September to perform the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca -- the first time Egypt allowed him to leave the territory since Morsi’s ouster. He then went to 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...
 to see Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal.
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