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Hamas Is Weakening
Classical Values —
Hamas Is Weakening Hamas is getting heavy pressure from Iran to keep on fighting. Iran is exerting heavy pressure on Hamas not to accept the Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire with Israel, an Egyptian government official said on Sunday. The official told The Jerusalem Post by phone that two senior Iranian officials who visited Damascus recently warned Hamas leaders against accepting the proposal. His remarks came as Hamas representatives met in Cairo with Egyptian Intelligence Chief Gen. Omar Suleiman and his aides to discuss ways of ending the fighting in the Gaza Strip. The ...
Hugh Hewitt: How Great A Defeat For Hamas?
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The Jerusalem Post quotes a Fatah official : "The Iranians and Syrians are using Hamas to undermine the Palestinian Authority and other moderate Arab governments," the Fatah official told the Post . "Victory for Hamas in this war would mean victory for Iran, Syria and Hizbullah. This is something we need to prevent." The official expressed hope that the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip would revolt against Hamas when the IDF operation ended. He also expressed hope that Hamas leaders Mahmoud Zahar and Ismail Haniyeh would be tried before a Palestinian court as "war criminals." The Hamas leaders, he charged, were responsible for the death of hundreds of innocent ...
Hugh Hewitt: How Great A Defeat For Hamas?
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog —
The Jerusalem Post quotes a Fatah official : "The Iranians and Syrians are using Hamas to undermine the Palestinian Authority and other moderate Arab governments," the Fatah official told the Post . "Victory for Hamas in this war would mean victory for Iran, Syria and Hizbullah. This is something we need to prevent." The official expressed hope that the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip would revolt against Hamas when the IDF operation ended. He also expressed hope that Hamas leaders Mahmoud Zahar and Ismail Haniyeh would be tried before a Palestinian court as "war criminals." The Hamas leaders, he charged, were responsible for the death of hundreds of innocent ...
Khaled Meshaal and Iran: Willing to fight to the last drop of 'Palestinian' blood
Israel Matzav —
Khaled Meshaal and Iran: Willing to fight to the last drop of 'Palestinian' blood [image] Egyptian officials have told the Jerusalem Post that Iran is pressuring Hamas not to accept Egypt's 'cease fire' proposal - as if Meshaal needs any such pressure. The Egyptian official said that the two Iranian emissaries, Ali Larijani, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, and Said Jalili of the Iranian Intelligence Service, met in the Syrian capital with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal and Islamic Jihad Secretary-General Ramadan Shallah. "As soon as the Iranians heard about the Egyptian cease-fire initiative, they dispatched the two officials to Damascus on an urgent mission to warn ...
Gaza, Hamas, Iran and Israel
QandO —
If you ever doubted that Iran views the current conflict in Gaza as a proxy war, this report from an Egyptian official about the Iranian reaction to the cease-fire Egypt was trying to broker should help you resolve that doubt: ...
Iran warns Hamas not to waver
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Iran warns Hamas not to waver posted at 7:58 am on January 12, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly In case anyone wonders who pulls the strings with Hamas, the latest from Tehran should make it clear. The Iranians sent a delegation to Damascus as soon as they heard about the Franco-Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire — to warn Hamas leadership of the consequences of accepting it. But does Khaled Mashaal have any effective control over what remains of the Hamas command structure in Gaza? Iran is exerting heavy pressure on Hamas not to accept the Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire with Israel, an Egyptian ...
Hamas: A fatal failure in leadership and a prize-winning puppet
The Moderate Voice —
Not sure what a proxy is? What a puppet looks like? Then read this, from the Jerusalem Post:
[An Egyptian government] official told The Jerusalem Post by phone that two senior Iranian officials who visited Damascus recently warned Hamas leaders against accepting the [Egyptian cease fire] proposal.
His remarks came as Hamas representatives met in Cairo with Egyptian Intelligence Chief Gen. Omar Suleiman and his aides to discuss ways of ending the fighting in the Gaza Strip.
The spokesmen said Hamas voiced its strong opposition to the idea of deploying an international force inside the Gaza Strip. ...
The Poisoned Fruit Of Gaza?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Fallows dissects Anthony Cordesman's analysis: Gee, if only there were a popular saying that conveyed the idea that you could win many battles and still lose the war. Let us check some of the effects of the Krauthammer-style offensive: a greater association in the Arab-Muslim mind that the US is on the side of corrupt and brutal Arab autocracies; widespread global revulsion at the sight of a vastly superior army causing, even unintentionally, horrifying civilian casualties; a greater identification with Hamas among Gazans; a weakening of the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank; growing sympathy from the ...
Hamas, Iran, And The Villagers
Newshoggers.com —
... Today Rupert Murdoch's Jerusalem Post ran a story that quoted an officially unofficial official from Egypt as saying that "Iran is exerting heavy pressure on Hamas not to accept the Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire with Israel" and the pro-Israel, anti-Iranian wingnuts ...
Israeli troops probe urban areas in Gaza City
The Long War Journal —
... to implement a cease-fire. Iran has warned Hamas that its funding would be shut off if it cut a deal with the Israelis, an Egyptian government official told The Jerusalem Post. ...
Israel Should Continue to Give War a Chance
Weekly Standard Blog —
... as Hamas has dug in and planted mines and booby traps along the roads and in buildings. Clearing a city the size of Gaza City may take weeks and will generate more images of the plight of the Palestinian people.
Reports from the region indicate Hamas may indeed be on the ropes. Israeli intelligence believes Hamas's military arm has suffered significant losses. As Michael Goldfarb noted yesterday, Hamas's leadership in Gaza is pushing for a ceasefire, despite calls to continue the fight by Hamas's leadership in Damascus and the Iranians.
Fatah, ...
