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2020-07-28 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas head: We refused $15 billion in aid conditioned on disarming
So noble of them after Qatar committed to donate another princely sum to their Muslim Brotherhood clients.
[IsraelTimes] In interview with 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i newspaper, Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
-ruling terror group leader Ismail Haniyeh

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...became Prime Minister of Gaza 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...
says offer came from ’parties paid off by major powers’ as part of controversial US peace plan.


Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh said that his terror group had turned down as much as $15 billion in development aid to Gaza two months ago which he claimed had been conditioned on demilitarizing the Gaza-based terror group.

Haniyeh told Qatari newspaper al-Lusail that the offer had been made in the context of US President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
’s controversial peace plan, which would allocate $13.38 billion to the Gaza Strip for development if implemented.

"There were parties that came to us two months ago, who we know had been paid off by major powers. They offered us new projects in the Gaza Strip worth about $15 billion. Of course, we said this is excellent, we want to establish an airport, port, and economic development projects in the Gaza Strip," Haniyeh said.

Both Hamas and its rival Fatah have opposed Trump’s peace plan — often referred to in the region as "the deal of the century" — since it was first published.

Haniyeh, who lives in the Qatari capital of Doha, told al-Lusail that the offer included an end of the blockade of Gaza by Israel and Egypt, which began after Hamas took over in the strip in 2007. Israel says the blockade prevents Hamas from importing weapons which it would use to threaten the Jewish state. The blockade has devastating effects on the Gazook economy, however, where unemployment is now over 60 percent.

Haniyeh said that the most recent offer was conditioned on Hamas relinquishing its military capabilities. The Trump peace plan stipulates Hamas’ disarmament as a precondition for negotiations on Paleostinian statehood, although it seems unlikely that the Gaza-based terror group would agree to do so unilaterally.

"We learned that, in exchange, we would have to dissolve our military factions and integrate them into the police and retire our weaponry, especially heavy weapons, the rockets that hit Tel Aviv and beyond, and dissolve the capability of Gaza for self-rule," Haniyeh said.

According to Haniyeh, those conditions made the offer unacceptable.

"They want put an end the existence of resistance and separate Gaza from the rest of the Paleostinian national movement," Haniyeh said, referring to the charge that the Trump peace plan would essentially create two separate Paleostinian entities in the West Bank and Gaza.

"We want to break the siege, and we want projects in the Gaza Strip. We want a port in Gaza — but as a right and not in exchange for our political principles or disarmament. Our principle is Paleostine from the river to the sea, the right of return, the liberation of prisoners and the establishment of a full sovereign Paleostinian state with Jerusalem as its capital," Haniyeh said.

Hamas and Israel have conducted several rounds of negotiations for a long-term ceasefire and the end of the blockade. Some negotiations saw a temporary easing of tensions between the two sides, but none brought an end to the tight restrictions on movement and commerce which dominate life in the Gaza Strip.

Israel has demanded the release of captives and the remains of soldiers in exchange for any easing of the blockade

The Trump peace plan says it envisions Gaza as a "modern metropolitan city" along the lines of Singapore, and proposes several development projects and economic zones in the Gaza Strip, including a port. Critics, however, say that there can be no economic development without freedom of movement for Gazooks. While the Trump plan would provide technical upgrades to checkpoints and border crossings, Israel would still exert security control over entry and exit ports to the proposed State of Paleostine, including the Gaza Strip.

In the interview, Haniyeh also hailed what he indicated was a positive role for Qatar in "reconciling Paleostinian disagreements," saying that Qatar had good relations with "all Paleostinian factions."

Fatah and Hamas, at odds ever since Hamas violent mostly peacefully expelled Fatah from the Gaza Strip in 2007, recently agreed to work together against Israeli plans to annex parts of the West Bank.

The groups announced last week that they would hold a joint rally in Gaza at which both Haniyeh and Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
will speak.
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