Hamas head: 'Egypt revolt gave us our lives back'

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Hamas head: 'Egypt revolt gave us our lives back'

By JPOST.COM STAFF

03/06/2011 15:55

Speaking in Khartoum, Khaled Mashaal praises fall of Mubarak, says Cairo

returned " to its natural state, " calls on Fatah and Hamas to reunite.

Speaking in Khartoum, Khaled Mashaal praises fall of Mubarak, says Cairo

returned " to its natural state, " calls on Fatah and Hamas to reunite.

Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal on Sunday praised last month's political

revolution in Egypt, saying that it had given the Palestinian people their lives

back, AFP reported.

Speaking in Khartoum in a live broadcast on Sudanese state television, Mashaal

was quoted by AFP as saying, " Today we are witnessing Cairo returning to its

natural state, after it disappeared from that state for a long time. The people

in Egypt and Tunisia have given us back our lives. "

Ousted Egyptian former president Hosni Mubarak resigned on February 11 after a

series of massive protests rattled the country for three weeks.

The Hamas leader spoke at the opening of the Iranian-funded Al-Quds (Jerusalem)

International Foundation conference taking place in Khartoum this year.

Commenting on the Hamas-Fatah rift, Mashaal urged the two factions to reunite

based on " jihad " against Israel.

" The first step (to liberating Jerusalem from Israeli occupation) is refusal to

negotiate with Israel... and to establish a new, reconciled Palestinian position

based on jihad, " he was quoted by AFP as saying.

On Friday, a Hamas delegation was expected to leave Gaza for Sudan and then on

to Damascus for a round of meetings about negotiations for a prisoner exchange

that would include captive Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit.

Hamas said that progress was being made and that the mediator has presented new

ideas to both Hamas and Israel, the Gaza-based news agency reported.

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People should pay attention to this. If the Muslim Brotherhood gains enough power in Egypt, they will assist the Palestinians against the Israelis and there will be another war in the region.

While both sides there have done bad things, the Palestinians bear a lot of the blame. They very nearly had a successful and fairly bloodless victory over Israel in the 1990's. However, at the last moment, they allowed Yassar Arafat to step in. Shortly after he arrived, the leaders of the nearly successful regime vanished or ran away. Passive resistance and children throwing rocks were replaced with gunfire, mortars and suicide bombers. Naturally they hard negotiated old terms were throw away and several years of bloodshed followed. It is because of Arafat that the walls and fences went up along with all the other security measures and all the fighting. If not for Hamas and Fatah, there would likely be peace in the region.

Of course, it also didn't help that once these two entities took power in the Gaza Strip that they looted everything they could grab, including copper pipes and wiring from buildings, streets and even greenhouses. They stripped their own land of the means of modern life and then scream poverty. Idiot Western nations shovel money at them without demanding accountability, so instead of buying food and medicine, they buy guns and explosives and what is left over goes into secret accounts for the bosses.

In a message dated 3/6/2011 12:48:17 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, no_reply writes:

Commenting on the Hamas-Fatah rift, Mashaal urged the two factions to reunite based on "jihad" against Israel. "The first step (to liberating Jerusalem from Israeli occupation) is refusal to negotiate with Israel... and to establish a new, reconciled Palestinian position based on jihad," he was quoted by AFP as saying.