Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Horror of Homs...
accused Paleostinian groups he did not identify on Sunday of treating the country like a "hotel", in his first public speech in seven months.
Assad praised every "honorable Paleostinian in Syria who has served (the country's interests alongside) his Syrian brother and not treated Syria like a hotel, leaving it when circumstances become difficult."
His comments appeared to be an allusion to Islamist group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, which had its headquarters in exile in Damascus
...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat...
before quietly moving abroad and declaring its support for the uprising against Assad.
Syrian members of the Moslem Brüderbund movement, from which Hamas sprung, were among the first to participate in the revolt when it erupted in March 2011.