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Posted for its amusement value. [IsraelTimes] Speaking from Qatar, senior terror leader warns of ‘ticking time bomb’ in Mideast ‘as long as the occupation exists’; Hamas military spox hails ‘successful’ Oct. 7 attack, ‘humiliating defeat’ of IDF
Hamas
 ..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
leader Khaled Mashaal said the Paleostinian terror group would rise "like a phoenix" from the ashes despite heavy losses during a year of war with Israel, and that it continues to recruit fighters and manufacture weapons.
One year after the devastating Hamas attack that triggered the war, the 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...
-based Mashaal framed the conflict with Israel as part of a broader narrative spanning 76 years, dating back to what Paleostinians call the "Nakba" or "catastrophe," of the Jewish state’s founding in 1948.
"Paleostinian history is made of cycles," Mashaal, 68, a senior Hamas figure under overall leader Yahya Sinwar, told Rooters in an interview.
"We go through phases where we lose deaders (victims) and we lose part of our military capabilities, but then the Paleostinian spirit rises again, like the phoenix, thanks to God."
Mashaal, who survived an Israeli liquidation attempt in 1997 after he was injected with poison and was overall Hamas leader from 1996-2017, said the Islamist terror group was still able to mount ambushes against Israeli troops.
Hamas also fired four missiles at central Israel on Monday morning, the anniversary of the October 7 atrocities, in which Paleostinian forces of Evil killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and seized 251 hostages.
"We lost part of our ammunition and weapons, but Hamas is still recruiting young men and continues to manufacture a significant portion of its ammunition and weapons," said Mashaal, without providing details.
Oh? Do go on. Mashaal remains influential in Hamas because he has played a crucial role in its leadership for almost three decades, and is widely seen now as its diplomatic face. His comments appear intended as a signal that the terrorist group will fight on whatever its losses, Middle East analysts said.
"Overall I would say (Hamas is) alive and kicking still and ... will probably come back at some point in 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with 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 ...
," said Joost R. Hiltermann, Middle East and North Africa Program Director of the International Crisis Group. He said Israel had not spelled out a plan for Gaza when the war ends, and this could allow Hamas to re-establish itself although perhaps not with such strength or in the same form.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office declined comment on Mashaal’s remarks.
"As long as the occupation exists, the region remains a ticking time bomb," Mashaal warned.
Also Monday, the front man of the Hamas’s military wing, known only as Abu Obeida, gave a speech praising the attack the terror group carried out one year ago, and the unity of the fronts opened by Iran-backed proxy organizations across the Middle East against Israel over the past 12 months. He further called for "military, financial and logistical support" as well as media campaigns against Israel.
And was he standing in front of a cheering crowd in the fresh air and sunshine when he spoke, or was he hiding in a dank hole in the ground somewhere, surrounded by 10/7 hostages and praying that the Israelis weren’t already on their way with their robots and their dogs? Abu Obeida also discussed the hostages still in Gaza, and said that it would be "unreasonable" for Hamas to kill them, but that dozens of them may be held in captivity for a long time and may never be returned.
That also is unreasonable. They have to be fed for no return, if they aren’t traded for something, and they’re only useful as human shields until suddenly they aren’t. "The fate of the hostages is tied to the actions of their government," Abu Obeida said. "The longer [the military operation in Gaza] persists, the greater the risk to the hostages."
Abu Obeida boasted that October 7 was "the most professional and successful commando operation in the modern era,"
…not at all professional, no — and given what Gaza looks like now, and the number of dead and maimed Hamasniks, not any kind of success, either… and added that it inflicted a "humiliating defeat" on the IDF. He made the baseless allegation that it was a "preemptive strike" to avert a major operation planned by Israel against Hamas in Gaza.
It rather looks like Israel pulled off a major operation against Hamas thereafter. You’re batting a perfect goose egg, bro. The front man claimed that October 7 was a response to alleged Israeli violations at the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem, the expansion of settlements, abuses against Paleostinian security prisoners, and the blockade of the Gaza Strip.
And yet Israel has even tighter control of the Temple Mount/Al Aqsa, there are many more Palestinian security prisoners, and the blockade of Gaza is even tighter. Your win is looking awfully Pyrrhic. He addressed Hezbollah, saying: "We are confident in your steadfastness and courage in inflicting heavy losses on the forces of the Zionist enemy, as the martyr His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...>
promised."
Forty-one thousand dead Gazans vs a couple hundred dead Israelis. I know y’all want to die for your god but this level of lopsided suggests your god doesn’t like you at all. The terror leader also mentioned Maher al-Jazi, the Jordanian citizen who carried out a shooting attack at the Allenby Bridge Crossing on September 8 in which three Israeli citizens were killed, saying that he opened an "authentic Jordanian front" in addition to the existing ones.
One example does not a front make. Abu Obeida lashed at the US for supporting Israel, and claimed that Islamist terror operatives in the Gaza Strip, from Hamas and other factions, "persist in their steadfastness and their heroic fighting in every inch of the Strip."
True…. Commenting on the recent killing of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, Abu Obeida said that "the policy of liquidations of our leaders is a good outcome, a sign of victory for us, and a source of regret and disappointment for the aggressors."
I’m pretty sure Israel doesn’t regret those deaths one bit. "A leader is succeeded by 10, and a fighter by a thousand," he added. "This land produces resistance fighters as it produces olives."
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