Hamas’ Diplomatic Wing Taking Flight
September 6, 2012 14:55 by Pesach Benson
Hamas is training its own diplomatic corps. As Reuters points out, this would end the PLO’s monopoly on representing the Palestinians in global forums.
It deepens Palestinian divisions. And it damages an otherwise sure-thing statehood bid in the UN General Assembly.
So if you support the idea that Israel and the West should engage Hamas, or if you think there are legitimate distinctions between Hamas’ “acceptable political wing” and “less acceptable military wing,” I wouldn’t advise talking up those points in Fatah circles nowadays.
Hamas has an art wing too. But as the terror group’s founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin used to say, “Hamas is one body.”
Too bad the same can’t be said of the Palestinians.
steve mann
5:54 pm
Sep 06, 2012
Of course Hamas is one body- its part of the Muslim Brotherhood-
The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Ismailia, Egypt by Hassan al-Banna in March 1928 as an Islamist religious, political, and social movement.[1][2] The group spread to other Muslim countries but has its largest, or one of its largest, organizations in Egypt, where for many years it has been the largest, best-organized, and most disciplined political opposition force,[3][4][5] despite a succession of government crackdowns in 1948, 1954, 1965 after plots, or alleged plots, of assassination and overthrow were uncovered. Following the 2011 Revolution the group was legalized,[5] and in April 2011 it launched a civic political party called the Freedom and Justice Party (Egypt) to contest elections.
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Diplomatischer Flügel der Hamas hebt ab « Medien BackSpin
8:55 pm
Sep 06, 2012
[...] HonestReporting Media BackSpin, 6. September 2012 [...]
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Admiral Robert Lewis O'Dell Jr
11:24 pm
Sep 10, 2012
Hamas and Hizbollah will fall with the Royal Guards militia’s of the Iranian threat waits very quickly to fall on their justified destruction, hopefully without a bad thing happening to Israel too. Broken Spear
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batya dagan
2:23 am
Sep 11, 2012
Frankly I can’t take Hamas seriously as long as it refuses to admit that there is an Israel.Worse, even though it does not exists Hamas is planning to destroy it.
I do not see a real difference between Hamas and Fatah.They hate each other just about as much as they hate Israel and the only hope for future peace will be when either Hamas or Fatah
will disapear from the face of the earth.
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