After Syria fall-out, Hamas ties with Iran restored - Hamas chief

[Muhammed45]

After Syria fall-out, Hamas ties with Iran restored - Hamas chief

* Hamas, Iran have been at odds over Syria

* Hamas leader says Iran restores military, financial aid

* Says war with Israel not strategic choice at moment

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

GAZA, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Hamas and Iran have patched up relations, the Palestinian militant group’s new leader in Gaza said on Monday, and Tehran is again its biggest backer after years of tension over the civil war in Syria.

“Relations with Iran are excellent and Iran is the largest supporter of the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades with money and arms,” Yehya al-Sinwar, referring to Hamas’s armed wing, told reporters.

Neither Hamas nor Iran have disclosed the full scale of Tehran’s backing. But regional diplomats have said Iran’s financial aid for the Islamist movement was dramatically reduced in recent years and directed to the Qassam Brigades rather than to Hamas’s political institutions.

Hamas angered Iran by refusing to support Iran’s ally Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the six-year-old civil war.

“The relationship today is developing and returning to what it was in the old days,” Sinwar, who was elected in February, said in his first briefing session with reporters.

“This will be reflected in the resistance (against Israel) and in (Hamas’s) agenda to achieve the liberation,” he said.

Hamas seeks Israel’s destruction. It has fought three wars with Israel since seizing the Gaza Strip from forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007.

Sinwar, a former Hamas security chief who had spent 20 years in Israeli jails, said the group is always preparing for a possible war with Israel. But he said such a conflict was not in Hamas’s strategic interests at the moment.

“We are not interested in a war, we do not want war and we want to push it backward as much as we could so that our people will relax and take their breath and in the same time we are building our power,” he said. “We do not fear war and we are fully ready for it.”

Hamas and Abbas’s Palestinian Authority (PA), which exercises limited self-rule in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, are locked in political dispute over the issue of Palestinian unity.


Abbas's slashing of PA funding for Israeli-supplied electricity to Gaza has led to prolonged daily blackouts in the coastal enclave.

Sinwar, in his remarks, invited Abbas's Fatah movement for talks on forming a new national unity government to administer both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

There was no immediate response from PA officials. Abbas has called on Hamas to first relinqish control of Gaza before he removes economic sanctions and to prepare for the formation of a new unity government that will be tasked with holding presidential and parliament elections.

Editing by Jeffrey Heller and Richard Balmforth

https://af.reuters.com/article/africaTech/idAFL8N1LE3BP

 

[Muhammed45]

Now Qatar can get the hell out of our face.

Welcome back to your brothers, don't permit religious Fitna to separate us.

 

[Falcon29]

This article is a bit too biased. Hamas does not seek the destruction of Israel. And it implies the three wars to take place in Gaza following Hamas taking control were due to that reason. That is not the case, each one had a different context. You could argue who started the first one both ways, the second one was definitely ignited by Israel. In my opinion the third one as well.

Hamas believes in armed resistance as a national strategy. That had its benefit when Gaza was occupied, it was necessary. It probably is necessary in the West Bank and justified. Especially if situation deteriorates. Right now, though, political unity is needed and no armed resistance should take place. There should be as much diplomatic effort as possible. Hamas and Fatah need to try to get nations to pressure Israel on a two state solution. Abbas should be reasonable with his demands for Hamas to give up control of Gaza, and Hamas should be reasonable and help find a solution to the siege that benefits both parties. Most important thing right now is the livelihood of the people, which is not good currently.

As for OP, that dispute was not based on religion nor does Qatar have anything to do with this. Qatar is not against Hamas ties with Iran.

 

[Muhammed45]

This article is a bit too biased. Hamas does not seek the destruction of Israel. And it implies the three wars to take place in Gaza following Hamas taking control were due to that reason. That is not the case, each one had a different context. You could argue who started the first one both ways, the second one was definitely ignited by Israel. In my opinion the third one as well.

Hamas believes in armed resistance as a national strategy. That had its benefit when Gaza was occupied, it was necessary. It probably is necessary in the West Bank and justified. Especially if situation deteriorates. Right now, though, political unity is needed and no armed resistance should take place. There should be as much diplomatic effort as possible. Hamas and Fatah need to try to get nations to pressure Israel on a two state solution. Abbas should be reasonable with his demands for Hamas to give up control of Gaza, and Hamas should be reasonable and help find a solution to the siege that benefits both parties. Most important thing right now is the livelihood of the people, which is not good currently.

As for OP, that dispute was not based on religion nor does Qatar have anything to do with this. Qatar is not against Hamas ties with Iran.

Hamas is not the one that starts wars in the region. They didn't wage war on Israel, it was Israel that attacked them and started massacring residents of Gaza. So the point of all this, Hamas needs help and we won't refute them.

Indeed it was a religious and geopolitical problem, the case is Syria. Hamas didn't behave well when ISIS the so called resistance fighters were dominating in Syrian provinces one after an other. In some cases they were hostile against Syrian people and their government. And all of those problems had fake religious identity and Qatar and KSA both were responsible for it. The bogus Jihadists in Syria caused death and displacement of millions. Though i have heard the Palestinians are currently helping Assad and i am thankful to them.

Anyways We don't want to leave Gaza with Israeli wolves alone.

And you are under nice wave of cooler dude, you don't see the pain of Palestinians that Israel's apartheid regime has imposed on them. So stand away and watch what is coming for Israel.

 

[Falcon29]

Hamas is not the one that starts wars in the region. They didn't wage war on Israel, it was Israel that attacked them and started massacring residents of Gaza. So the point of all this, Hamas needs help and we won't refute them.

You should just let your government speak on your behalf. And you should stop quoting me since you have trouble reading or are trolling.

Indeed it was a religious and geopolitical problem, the case is Syria.

No it wasn't.

In some cases they were hostile against Syrian people and their government.

Again no they didn't, they couldn't support the regime and that's where the dispute occurred. They shouldn't have expressed support to FSA from my perspective. However, they are political movement that acts in their interests. Same way you and your country do. There is no 100% moral compass here. The moral thing in case of Syria would be to call for peaceful resolution.

Though i have heard the Palestinians are currently helping Assad and i am thankful to them.

That's what Palestinians mean to you, you want them to behave as your mercenaries. Same attitude towards Iraqi's. You pretend to own them and regulate their affairs. Then you have audacity to claim you have better knowledge of the situation in Gaza then an actual Palestinian does.

And you are under nice wave of cooler dude, you don't see the pain of Palestinians that Israel's apartheid regime has imposed on them. So stand away and watch what is coming for Israel.

Shut your mouth, hypocrite. You live outside of Iran and have arrogant attitude. Someone that has never been to or lived in Gaza, or has family there, does not know more or have more empathy towards the situation than someone who has lived the opposite of you.

And shut up about making it appear like treason or crime that someone lives in the West. Your country has ties with the West and your people all vacation there. And living in the West is not lavish and easy, on contrary we pay way more taxes and work way harder than you do. More responsibilities does not equate to ease and luxury.

 

[Muhammed45]

You should just let your government speak on your behalf. And you should stop quoting me since you have trouble reading or are trolling.

ok, we will support Hamas dude. In any case.
You might think that our enmity with Israel has benefited us, rethink dude, it is obviously a big pressure on our economy and political stances.

No it wasn't.

Yes, it was. Don't you remember USA's propaganda? Alawites are killing Sunnis. Oh en masse Americans were worried about Sunnis, read their news about Assad and their religious propaganda. Many people here still believe that ISIS was resistance fighter and Assad was killing them.

Again no they didn't, they couldn't support the regime and that's where the dispute occurred. They shouldn't have expressed support to FSA from my perspective. However, they are political movement that acts in their interests. Same way you and your country do. There is no 100% moral compass here. The moral thing in case of Syria would be to call for peaceful resolution.

And it was the fault of Qatar as a big party that had influence on Hamas.

That's what Palestinians mean to you, you want them to behave as your mercenaries. Same attitude towards Iraqi's. You pretend to own them and regulate their affairs. Then you have audacity to claim you have better knowledge of the situation in Gaza then an actual Palestinian does.

Dude you are misinformed by biased medias of kingdoms in Arabian world.
Firstly you want to say that we, your own kind, are trying to work on Americans and to make them believe that Palestinians are innocent and we don't want to fight Israelis to destroy them. I say Ok, respect to your effort
Never mind how Israel is continuing the settlement process and occupation in west bank despite their agreement with Abbas.
I don't want Palestinians to fight for someone, they have to just stay alive and defend themselves.
Israel is Israel, do you want me to introduce to you their endless crimes? In sabra? In Shatila? In Gaza?
No one wants to see them in that hard pain especially a Muslim dude. 50 years ago an invasion took place and they were massacred, still being massacred though.
You should be aware of it as a Palestinian.
The irony dude, i'm being blamed for my support for Palestinians, from both parties.
It looks like you are not Palestinian and you are trolling
How can Palestinians fight with bare hands against invaders?
If we listened to people like you, Hamas was still using rocks to throw on Israelis as you can see in west bank they have nothing to fight Israelis. Or at least make a balance and prevent invasion and massacre
This is the weakness of Palestine, i can hear their call for help but you such a deaf, lecturing me about Palestinians who are under bombardment since almost 60 years ago.

Interest interest damned interest. Our interest is in saying F*** Palestine and start working with bankers and Imperialists of US-EU and stab Palestinians in the back. That's what i call dirty interests. Look at Turkey, they have Israel's embassy!!! That is called interest dude!
You don't even know the basics of politics, interests is saying f*** everyone else and cheers on my own country! That's so called interest.
About Iraq, they were being massacred and displaced by ISIS militants. I don't know how did you imagine that we are asking them to fight for us?!!! How? Where? When?
They are fighting for their own survival and we are helping them.
One day we helped them to get liberated from USA's invasion and now we are helping them against ISIS.

Shut your mouth, hypocrite. You live outside of Iran and have narcissistic attitude. Someone that has never been to or lived in Gaza, or has family there, does not know more or have more empathy towards the situation than someone who has lived the opposite of you.

I bet dude! You give a single rat shit about their pain. You want them to stay bare handed and showing love to Israeli wolves!!! You should be a traitor or an Israeli false flagger

 

[Falcon29]

ok, we will support Hamas dude. In any case.
You might think that our enmity with Israel has benefited us, rethink dude, it is obviously a big pressure on our economy and political stances.

I'm not against Iran supporting Hamas. Like I said, you need to take your time when you read. It's obvious you're having misunderstandings.

Yes, it was. Don't you remember USA's propaganda? Alawites are killing Sunnis. Oh en masse Americans were worried about Sunnis, read their news about Assad and their religious propaganda. Many people here still believe that ISIS was resistance fighter and Assad was killing them.

I was referring to Hamas's decision, not the international news narrative.

And it was the fault of Qatar as a big party that had influence on Hamas.

Partially but not entirely.

Dude you are misinformed by biased medias of kingdoms in Arabian world.

Dude, I'm not Iranian and don't share your narrative on everything. That doesn't make me misinformed. Get a grip.

 

[Ilay]

Holy shit, That Iranian dude is brainwashed behind any point of return, just listening to him makes me wonder how can you reach adulthood with so much brainwash inside your head? Does he even comprehend the things he types down on his keyboard? Reality check? Nothing?