al-Manar reports: A senior Iranian politician met Hamas politburo Chief Khaled Mashaal in Damascus on Wednesday as the Palestinian Islamic resistance group is studying an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Ali Larijani, speaker of parliament and one of the major figures in the Islamic Republic, met Mashaal and several high level officials from Hamas at the Iranian embassy in the Syrian capital, witnesses said.
The meeting stretched into the early hours of Thursday, with no details emerging from the deliberations. Larijani earlier met leaders of Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian resistance group.
Larijani also met President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday to discuss the "dangerous situation" in Gaza, the official Syrian news agency said. He is the second Iranian official to visit Syria since Israel's ground invasion of Gaza began on Saturday.
Saeed Jalili, a senior Iranian security official, met Hamas and Islamic Jihad officials in Damascus this week, before Egypt announced a plan for a truce in Gaza brokered by France.
Hamas said it was looking at the plan, which aims to “prevent Hamas rearming through smuggling tunnels from Egypt” and tackles Hamas's demand for an end to Israel's blockade on Gaza, a major reason cited by Hamas behind its decision not to renew a truce with Israel last month.
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Hamas Leader urges Arab countries to forge stronger ties with Iran
Press TV reports that the Political Leader of Hamas Khalid Meshaal has called on Arab countries to forge stronger ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Arab and Islamic countries should consolidate their unity and distinguish friend from foe, he said while addressing a ceremony held in the Syrian capital, Damascus, to commemorate the demise anniversary of the Founder of Iran's Islamic Revolution, the late Imam Khomeini.
He stressed the importance of achieving real reconciliation between Islamic countries.
Meshaal envisioned new prospects in the region, which promised the victory of the forces of resistance over enemies.
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Commentary: this is a very interesting and highly significant event as it proves that Hamas has taken a fundamental strategic decision to openly ally itself with Iran. This decision, in turn, indicates that Hamas has reached a number of highly significant conclusions:
1) Syria cannot be trusted by the Resistance
2) the Shia/Sunni divide is not nearly as important as some would like it to be
3) Hamas now is openly defying the Wahabi/Salafi extremists, al-Qaeda included
4) Hamas is distancing itself from its hardline Sunni roots (Muslim Brotherhood)
5) Tehran has now become the center of the Resistance of the entire Middle-East
The USraelians have been making accusations for a while already about Iran supporting (or, as they would say, being "behind") Hamas. I had seen no evidence of this until Meshaal's trip to Tehran and his meeting with the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Frankly, I was dubious that Hamas would have the wisdom to overcome the traditional anti-Shia and anti-Persian prejudices which are so common in the Sunni Arab world (and which are only exacerbated by the situation in Iraq).
Hamas' strategic "redirection" to an open alliance with Iran is therefore a major seminal event which will, hopefully, lead to a broader anti-Zionist alliance in the Middle-East.
First there was the alliance between the Shia Muslim Hezbollah with the Christian Free Patriotic Movement of General Michel Aoun. Now the Sunnis of Hamas are joining the united anti-Zionist front making it, for the first time, a truly multi-confessional Resistance movement. Hopefully, this will set an example for the Iraqi Sunni and Shia Resistance movements in Lebanon who, sooner or later, will have to forge a common front against the Occupation.
There are also many big loosers here: the Wahabi/Salafis extremists which are now becoming basically irrelevant. Ditto for their Saudi patrons. Then the old, almost prehistoric, secular movements such as the Baathists, the PLO and Fatah, of course, but also the Arab League and the OIC and the rest of the entire structure put in place by the imperialist powers to dominate the Middle-East. All of them are essentially becoming irrelevant: at best they are useless bystanders; mostly they are an integral part of the problem.
Hamas' strategic decision is very, very good news indeed. To paraphrase Condi's words, we are witnessing the birth of a new Middle-East, although not quite the one she was hoping for. With an attack on Iran now probably inevitable and imminent, the Resistance has resolved all the issues which could have weakened it and it is as ready as it could ever be to stand up to the Empire's onslaught.
(Needless to say, the corporate press is not reporting a single word about all this. This is arguably the biggest story in the Middle-East for a long while, and nobody is noticing it. Scary, bizarre, freaky, and pathetic I think, but also predictable)
Arab and Islamic countries should consolidate their unity and distinguish friend from foe, he said while addressing a ceremony held in the Syrian capital, Damascus, to commemorate the demise anniversary of the Founder of Iran's Islamic Revolution, the late Imam Khomeini.
He stressed the importance of achieving real reconciliation between Islamic countries.Meshaal envisioned new prospects in the region, which promised the victory of the forces of resistance over enemies.
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Commentary: this is a very interesting and highly significant event as it proves that Hamas has taken a fundamental strategic decision to openly ally itself with Iran. This decision, in turn, indicates that Hamas has reached a number of highly significant conclusions:
1) Syria cannot be trusted by the Resistance
2) the Shia/Sunni divide is not nearly as important as some would like it to be
3) Hamas now is openly defying the Wahabi/Salafi extremists, al-Qaeda included
4) Hamas is distancing itself from its hardline Sunni roots (Muslim Brotherhood)
5) Tehran has now become the center of the Resistance of the entire Middle-East
The USraelians have been making accusations for a while already about Iran supporting (or, as they would say, being "behind") Hamas. I had seen no evidence of this until Meshaal's trip to Tehran and his meeting with the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Frankly, I was dubious that Hamas would have the wisdom to overcome the traditional anti-Shia and anti-Persian prejudices which are so common in the Sunni Arab world (and which are only exacerbated by the situation in Iraq).
Hamas' strategic "redirection" to an open alliance with Iran is therefore a major seminal event which will, hopefully, lead to a broader anti-Zionist alliance in the Middle-East.
First there was the alliance between the Shia Muslim Hezbollah with the Christian Free Patriotic Movement of General Michel Aoun. Now the Sunnis of Hamas are joining the united anti-Zionist front making it, for the first time, a truly multi-confessional Resistance movement. Hopefully, this will set an example for the Iraqi Sunni and Shia Resistance movements in Lebanon who, sooner or later, will have to forge a common front against the Occupation.
There are also many big loosers here: the Wahabi/Salafis extremists which are now becoming basically irrelevant. Ditto for their Saudi patrons. Then the old, almost prehistoric, secular movements such as the Baathists, the PLO and Fatah, of course, but also the Arab League and the OIC and the rest of the entire structure put in place by the imperialist powers to dominate the Middle-East. All of them are essentially becoming irrelevant: at best they are useless bystanders; mostly they are an integral part of the problem.
Hamas' strategic decision is very, very good news indeed. To paraphrase Condi's words, we are witnessing the birth of a new Middle-East, although not quite the one she was hoping for. With an attack on Iran now probably inevitable and imminent, the Resistance has resolved all the issues which could have weakened it and it is as ready as it could ever be to stand up to the Empire's onslaught.
(Needless to say, the corporate press is not reporting a single word about all this. This is arguably the biggest story in the Middle-East for a long while, and nobody is noticing it. Scary, bizarre, freaky, and pathetic I think, but also predictable)
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