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| Haniyeh reportedly to replace Mashaal as Hamas head |
| 2016-09-06 |
| [TIMESOFISRAEL] Former Gazoo prime minister Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... is likely to replace Khaled Mashaal as head of the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group’s politburo in upcoming elections, according to Arab media reports Monday All other contenders for the position are said to have withdrawn, leaving Haniyeh as the sole candidate. "There is almost an agreement inside the leadership of the political bureau that the two (other) expected candidates running for the presidency of Hamas would withdraw and therefore, allow Haniyeh to chair the movement," an informed source told the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper. Haniyeh, 53, left the coastal enclave via the Rafah crossing Monday en route to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... to attend the hajj, according to Hamas radio. He is also expected to visit ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... before taking up residence in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i capital of Doha. The head of Hamas’s political bureau is expected to live outside of Gazoo, as traveling in and out of the Strip is difficult. Mashaal has lived for the last several years in Qatar. Haniyeh was the prime minister of the Gazoo Strip from the 2006 elections until he was dismissed on June 14, 2007 by Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... . He has continued to act as Gazoo’s de facto political leader. He was elected vice-president of the Hamas political bureau in 2012. Mashaal, 60, has led the Hamas political bureau since 1996. He is a veteran politician with close ties to regional powers Qatar, Egypt and Turkey. He has been key to Hamas’s attempts to break out of political isolation following its violent takeover of Gazoo in 2007. |
| Posted by:Fred |