Juan Cole: Hamas Breaks with Syrian Regime

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The ... Palestinian party-militia Hamas, based largely in the Gaza Strip has abruptly broken with its long-time patron, Syria.

The leadership has scattered from its offices in Syria to elsewhere in the region, especially Egypt and Qatar.

Hamas, although considered a terrorist group by Washington, is actually just an organized resistance movement on behalf of the Palestinians (who are stateless and rights-less).

The USG Open Source Center had translated an article on Hamas and Syria from the leftist Lebanese newspaper as-Safir; this article is suddenly outdated by Friday’s break between Netanyahu and Haniyeh.

These HAMAS leaders are following “with pain what is happening in Syria” and they stress that they have not spared any effort to contribute to addressing the Syrian crisis over the past few months, but they have not received an adequate response. Nevertheless, they say “we are always ready to contribute to any effort that hastens an end to the crisis and puts things on the right track because the continuation of the Syrian crisis is in the interest of the United States while ending it as soon as possible is in the interest of the resistance forces.”

http://www.juancole.com/2012/02/hamas-breaks-with-syrian-regime.html

[Fool Count]

1. Yeah, with the banking embargo on Iran and Syria it is now much easier for Saudi money

to get to Gaza.