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[Post To The Left]

Hamas, the largely Sunni organization was put in an uncomfortable spot during the Syrian uprising when it sympathized with the Syrian people but on other hand gets its money from the Assad and Iranian regime. Now it has moved its headquarters our of Syria to Egypt and Dubai and has been able to come out against the Assad and his crackdown of the Syrian people.

On Friday, the head of the Hamas government in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, declared his support for Syrian people against President Bashar al-Assad.

"I salute all people of the Arab Spring, or Islamic winter, and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform," Ismail Haniya told worshippers at a mosque in Cairo.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17192278

This of course has not sat well with the Iranians and now Hamas is forced to look for other means to replace the Iranian funds that were paying Hamas' 45,000 government workers.

Edited by Post To The Left, 29 February 2012 - 02:38 AM.

[DogOnPorch]

Rats know a sinking ship.

[olpfan1]

Hamas and Iran still share a similar hatred for Israel so I've no doubt they'll get over it and continue to work together in sending rockets into Israel

[GostHacked]

Al-Queda spurned by the CIA.

[DogOnPorch]

That's al-Qaeda. They've been spurned by your favorite boogeyman, the CIA, for sure.

[Post To The Left]

Hamas and Iran still share a similar hatred for Israel so I've no doubt they'll get over it and continue to work together in sending rockets into Israel

Or they will turn to the PLO and enter merge with it, after many false starts, now that they don't have to follow Iranian policies.

[DogOnPorch]

Or they will turn to the PLO and enter merge with it, after many false starts, now that they don't have to follow Iranian policies.

Throwing folks from tall buildings?

Edited by DogOnPorch, 29 February 2012 - 05:28 PM.

[Wolf Larsen]

The Middle East is a mess! Thanks to colonial powers like France and England carving the region up with lines in the sand in a somewhat similar manner that they did in Africa presented the foundation for a big screwed up mess. Then you got the United States government sticking its nose in there because of all the oil (trying to steal the oil from nation of Iraq by conquering it, but that didn't work out too good), and anyway now the whole thing is a mess!

Some of the countries in the Middle East are run by rotten dictators, others are run by rotten royalty, and then there's Israel, which is a loose cannon armed with the atomic bomb.

What is necessary is a Socialist Federation of the Middle East whereby all workers – Muslim, Jewish, Christian, whatever religion who cares – rule the region together with secular proletarian governments. The time has come to throw the old ruling classes out of the way. The time has come for workers revolutions throughout the Middle East.

[bush_cheney2004]

That's al-Qaeda. They've been spurned by your favorite boogeyman, the CIA, for sure.

Yep...definitely spurned...big time.

[DogOnPorch]

The Middle East is a mess! Thanks to colonial powers like France and England carving the region up with lines in the sand in a somewhat similar manner that they did in Africa presented the foundation for a big screwed up mess. Then you got the United States government sticking its nose in there because of all the oil (trying to steal the oil from nation of Iraq by conquering it, but that didn't work out too good), and anyway now the whole thing is a mess!

Some of the countries in the Middle East are run by rotten dictators, others are run by rotten royalty, and then there's Israel, which is a loose cannon armed with the atomic bomb.

What is necessary is a Socialist Federation of the Middle East whereby all workers – Muslim, Jewish, Christian, whatever religion who cares – rule the region together with secular proletarian governments. The time has come to throw the old ruling classes out of the way. The time has come for workers revolutions throughout the Middle East.

За Родину! За Сталина!

[DogOnPorch]

Yep...definitely spurned...big time.

Let's spurn 'em again.

[Post To The Left]

The Middle East is a mess! Thanks to colonial powers like France and England carving the region up with lines in the sand in a somewhat similar manner that they did in Africa presented the foundation for a big screwed up mess. Then you got the United States government sticking its nose in there because of all the oil (trying to steal the oil from nation of Iraq by conquering it, but that didn't work out too good), and anyway now the whole thing is a mess!

Some of the countries in the Middle East are run by rotten dictators, others are run by rotten royalty, and then there's Israel, which is a loose cannon armed with the atomic bomb.

What is necessary is a Socialist Federation of the Middle East whereby all workers – Muslim, Jewish, Christian, whatever religion who cares – rule the region together with secular proletarian governments. The time has come to throw the old ruling classes out of the way. The time has come for workers revolutions throughout the Middle East.

Cramming socialism down their throats isn't going to help anything. The problem with a lot of these Middle Eastern countries is that they are failed socialist states. While I appreciate where you're going with the whole "let's just separate the religion and state" that hasn't and doesn't work in the Middle East. I do agree with you that colonialism has screwed the region over but you to work with what you have and that is an Islamic based region.

[bush_cheney2004]

.... I do agree with you that colonialism has screwed the region over but you to work with what you have and that is an Islamic based region.

Agreed....colonies in the Americas made the leap without reverting to the 7th century.