[IsraelTimes] Delegation from Paleostinian terror group due to visit Damascus next week, 10 years after siding with opposition against Assad in Syrian civil war
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 ...
-ruling Paleostinian terror group Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, is reviving relations with the Iran-backed regime in Damascus after a decade-long rupture sparked by the outbreak of Syria’s bloody civil war.
Analysts say the shift pushes Hamas deeper into the fold of the Iran-led "axis of resistance" against Israel that includes Syria as well as Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective....
’s  Hezbollah terror group and Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels.
Hamas’s move comes amid fundamental changes in Middle East relationships that saw the Islamists’ long-time ally The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
restore full diplomatic ties in August with Israel, the Gaza terror group’s arch-enemy.
A delegation led by Hamas officials is expected in the Syrian capital next week, following a series of preparatory meetings.
Hamas sees itself as leading the armed Paleostinian resistance against Israel and is considered a terror group by the Jewish state, America and the European Union
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. Israel, along with Egypt, maintains a blockade on Gaza that it says is necessary to prevent weapons from reaching Hamas and other armed factions.
The terror group last month hailed its newly warming ties with the Syrian regime of Bashir al-Assad as "a service to the (Paleostinian) nation" whose people also live under Israeli rule in the West Bank.
Hamas cited the "rapid regional and international developments surrounding our cause and our nation" — without directly referring to Israel’s restored ties with Turkey and relations with several Arab nations.
The shift comes as Syria’s ally Iran, now hit by a wave of protests, is sharply at odds with Western and some regional powers, especially over its nuclear program, which Israel sees as an existential threat.
IRAN-LED ‘AXIS’
The leadership of Hamas, which has ruled the poverty-stricken enclave of Gaza since 2007, has long been based abroad as Israel’s military has repeatedly struck targets in the territory during fighting with the terror group.
Hamas had its headquarters in Damascus but closed them in 2012 after the terror group, which emerged from the Moslem Brüderbund movement, sided with the opposition against Assad.
Its leaders then moved to the Gulf state of 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...
and to Turkey, which had cut ties with Israel over a deadly Israeli commando raid on a Ottoman Turkish aid ship that had tried to breach the Gaza sea blockade.
The Hamas delegation expected in Damascus next week is to be headed by Khalil al-Hayya, its head of Arab relations, said Khaled Abdel Majid, head of the Paleostinian Popular Struggle Front, a group close to the Syrian regime.
Hamas’s decision to ally again with Damascus follows numerous visits by its officials to Syria, both "secret and public," a senior Hamas source told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Those meetings were mediated by Iran
 ...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...
and Hezbollah, which have both fought on Assad’s side in the civil war, the source said.
All this reflects Iran’s wish to bolster the "axis of resistance" which also includes the terror group 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...
, said Mukhaimer Abu Saada, a political science professor at Gaza’s al-Azhar University.
As Iran’s talks to restore its frayed 2015 nuclear deal with major powers have faltered, it has turned closer to Russia, which is also facing deepening international isolation over its war in Ukraine.
Hamas chief 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...
, based in Qatar, last month traveled to Moscow and met Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
‘A MORAL SIN’
As the terror group returns to Syria, the senior Hamas source told AFP, it plans to "open a representative office in Damascus soon, as a first step towards the return of normal relations."
The former political chief of Hamas, Khaled Mashal, once enjoyed rare privileges in Damascus and had a personal relationship with Assad.
However,
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it remains unlikely the Syrian regime will allow Hamas to rebuild a foothold that has "the weight it had a decade ago," said Jamal al-Fadi, also a politics professor at al-Azhar.
The Hamas leadership may also be wary of spending too much time in Syria, given that Israel regularly launches Arclight airstrike
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s on the country, mainly targeting pro-Iranian fighters.
"Hamas’s relationship with Syria at the moment will be subject to difficult security considerations," said Fadi. "It exposes its leaders and its activist muppets to the dangers of being easily targeted by Israel."
The budding Hamas-Syrian ties have exposed rifts within the Islamic movement.
Saleh al-Naami, a politics professor at the Islamic University of Gaza who is close to Hamas, described the deal with Damascus as a "moral sin."
"It also does not reflect the base of the movement and of the vast majority of its (political) elite," he wrote on Twitter.
However,
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the head of Hamas’s political committee, Bassem Naim, said the decision followed years of regional and international discussions.
"In the end, Hamas went with the majority opinion on the resumption of the relationship with Syria," said Naim. "There is no choice but for Hamas to be at the center of the resistance axis."
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