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2021-03-11 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Sinwar wins 2nd term as Hamas Gaza chief after tense election standoff
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 [IsraelTimes] Three rounds of voting on Tuesday night failed to yield victor; terror group’s internal elections are conducted in secret.
Yesterday he’d lost to one of the other guys, but it looks like they repeated the exercise until the correct result occurred. Yahya Sinwar has won a second term as the organization’s 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 ...
leader, a Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday.
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"Yahya Sinwar has been elected for a second term as head of Hamas’ Gaza political bureau, from 2021 to 2025," Hamas spokesperson Hazim Qasim said in a statement.
Fixed though the election may have been, that still puts them ahead of the Palestinian Authority, which doesn’t even pretend that much. The Hamas terror group is holding clandestine elections for its top spots. The Paleostinian movement’s internal elections are normally conducted in utter secrecy over a period of months.
Sinwar won the top position in Hamas’s Gaza politburo. Whoever holds the post becomes the highest-ranking Hamas official in the coastal enclave, the Strip’s de facto ruler, and the second most powerful member of the organization.
Three rounds of voting were conducted last night, with neither Sinwar nor his chief opponent Nizar Awadullah able to clinch victory. Sinwar received more than 50% of the vote in Wednesday’s ballot, leading him to a second four-year term.
In a statement following the tense election standoff, Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh
...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...
praised Hamas’s internal vote as "real elections, not purely for show."
For a given value of real that means precisely purely for show. "With transparency and integrity, everyone accepts its results," Haniyeh said of the vote.
”So there will be no assassination attempts to follow, guys, nor even kneecapping nephews. I’m serious as a heart attack here — if any of you mokes get antsy, there will be serious repercussions.” The Hamas Shura Council, a quasi-legislative body within the terror group, casts ballots to determine who will fill the group’s senior positions. Around 320 members are eligible to vote, and a candidate needs 160 votes — a simple majority — to win the day.
I would have required 161, but I realize math is hard. While Sinwar emerged victorious, he faced considerable and surprising opposition to a second term. Sinwar’s reign in Gaza has not seen a major war between Hamas and Israel, but living conditions in the crowded, poor Gaza Strip have continued to deteriorate.
The fire balloons didn’t work, the tunnels didn’t work, the rockets didn’t work, holding mentally unbalanced hostages who chose to wander across the border didn’t work, Egypt’s President al Sisi still hates you and keeps digging up your tunnels into the Sinai... and now Israel has completed their fancy border wall, so everything will be harder. But to give up jihad and make peace with the juices is unthinkable, so that’s that. Sinwar, 58, is second only to Hamas politburo head Haniyeh in the terror group’s hierarchy. He spent decades in an Israeli prison after being convicted in 1989 of conducting the kidnapping and execution of two Israeli soldiers.
Known by his Israeli interrogators as "the Butcher from Khan Younis" due to his enthusiastic execution of Paleostinians alleged to have collaborated with Israel, Sinwar was released from jail as part of the 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas.
Considered a hardliner within Hamas, Sinwar is infamous for his key role in founding Hamas’s military wing and security services. The Izz al-Din al-Qassem brigades and Majd, respectively, have committed numerous terror attacks against Israelis, as well as killing Paleostinians accused of collaborating with Israel.
The Hamas member said to constitute his main rival, Nizar Awadullah, played a key role in the 2011 prisoner exchange negotiations. He is a member of the Hamas politburo, the group’s highest decision-making body, and was a close confidant of Hamas founder Ahmad Yassin.
A member of Hamas’s founding generation, Awadullah is also said to be close to former Hamas political bureau chief, Khaled Mashaal. Awadullah’s house was bombed twice by Israel, once in 2009 and again in 2014.
Hamas elections occur once every four years and appoint members at every level in the terror group’s hierarchy: from local leaders in Gaza and the West Bank to the Shura Council, a quasi-legislative branch.
The last Hamas internal vote was conducted in 2017. Current Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh took the top spot, replacing Mashaal, who had held the post since 1996. Haniyeh had previously served as Hamas’s Gaza chief.
Unlike Fatah elections, which are festive events, drawing large crowds to public polling places, the Hamas vote is held in secret. The full results are expected to be released in April.
Rumors have fluttered in the Paleostinian press for months that Mashaal would seek a comeback against Haniyeh in the internal elections. The former Hamas chief has resided in Doha since 2012. Haniyeh’s base is in Gaza, while Mashaal’s main constituency is in the West Bank and abroad.
Yehya Al-Sinwar has been re-elected to head Hamas in the Gaza Strip for a second term, officials said on Wednesday, reflecting his control over both political and military wings of the group that rules the Palestinian enclave.
Sinwar’s main challenger in the election, which is only open to Hamas members including those in Israeli prisons, was Nizar Awadallah, a long-time official and co-negotiator of the 2011 swap deal.
In a statement issued by Awadallah, he stressed his support for Sinwar, saying: “We stand by his side in every position to achieve the goals of our project and our movement.”
Hamas has yet to elect a leader for the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Sources said his identity would be kept secret as protection against Israel or the administration of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a Hamas rival.
Filling the position of Hamas’s political chief, who also speaks for its military wing, will require more time. The overall leader of Hamas is Ismail Haniyeh, who is also based in Gaza. Haniyeh is facing a challenge this time by the former head of the group, Khaled Meshaal, who lives in Qatar. 
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