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A decade after split, Hamas and Syria said in talks to renew ties
2022-06-23
[IsraelTimes] Sources tell Rooters that talks underway to mend relationship; Syria shuttered Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, offices in 2012 after terror group backed violent mostly peaceful opposition against President Assad

A decade after breaking with Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
and decamping from Damascus, Hamas is in talks to resume ties with Syria, according to members of the terror group Tuesday.

Hamas and Syria have been on the outs since early 2012, when the group’s leadership came out against Assad’s brutal crackdown on the uprising that would turn into the Syrian civil war. Syria shuttered Hamas offices in Damascus months later, at the time officially closing the book on the relationship.

An anonymous official from the terror group said that Hamas and Syria were now engaged in "high-profile meetings," toward reconciliation, Rooters reported.

Syrian officials did not answer Rooters’ request for comment.

Hamas, an gang sworn to Israel’s destruction, moved its headquarters to Syria in the late 1990s.

Since leaving Damascus, Hamas’ leadership has been based mainly 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, Egypt and the 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...
Strip.

Hamas’ opposition to the Syrian government at the beginning of its civil war also angered their mutual ally Iran, which reportedly ceased funding the group, a claim denied in 2016 by the Islamic Theocratic Republic.

By 2017, relations between Hamas and Iran
...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence...
were hailed as "fantastic" by Gaza’s ruler Yahya Sinwar.

Israel and Hamas have fought several wars since the terror group seized control over the Gaza Strip in 2007.

Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas set up a joint operation center in Beirut during last year’s 11-day conflict with Israel, according to Ibrahim al-Amine, editor of the pro-Hezbollah Lebanese daily al-Akhbar.

Hamas, an Islamic fundamentalist terror organization was founded in 1987 at the beginning of the First Intifada as an offshoot of Egypt’s Moslem Brüderbund. The group has repeatedly called for Israel’s destruction and has been responsible for dozens of deadly terror attacks.
Rudaw adds:
The rupture that followed saw Hamas abandon its headquarters in the Syrian capital, where the group's former chief Khaled Meshal had lived for many years.

Top Hamas officials subsequently relocated to Doha and Istanbul.

Hamas has voiced anger over a recent diplomatic rapprochement between Turkey and Israel.

Meanwhile, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh arrived in Beirut on Tuesday, for meetings aimed at "strengthening cooperation and fraternity between the Palestinian and the Lebanese people", a Hamas statement said.

There was no immediate indication that Haniyeh's visit to was tied to the Syrian outreach.
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