The Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...terror group congratulated the Syrian people on Monday for achieving their "aspirations for freedom and justice" after toppling the regime of Bashir al-Assad.
It was Hamas’s first public comment on the matter since rebel forces swept into the Syrian capital Damascus on Sunday, after a lightning advance that sent Assad fleeing to Russia following a 13-year civil war and six decades of his family’s autocratic rule.
"Hamas congratulates the brotherly Syrian people on their success in achieving their aspirations for freedom and justice, and we call on all components of the Syrian people to unite their ranks," the terror group said.
"We stand strongly with the great people of Syria... and respect the will, the independence, and the political choices of the people of Syria."
Hamas said it hoped that post-Assad Syria would continue "its historical and pivotal role in supporting the Paleostinian people."
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's knife out of his hand......
footage from a mosque in Damascus aired by Hebrew media Monday showed Syrian rebels vowing to march on Jerusalem.
"This is the land of Islam, this is Damascus, the Moslem stronghold. From here to Jerusalem. We’re coming for Jerusalem. Patience, people of 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
, patience," vowed an Islamist rebel, surrounded by a group of button men who responded with cries of "
It was not clear which rebel group the fighters represented.
Also Monday, Ziad al-Nakhala
...In 1971, al-Nakhalah was sentenced to life imprisonment in Israel because of his militant activities with the Arab Liberation Front. He was one of the 1,150 security prisoners released by Israel on 21 May 1985 in an ill-advised prisoner swap under the Jibril Agreement. After his release from Israeli prison, then-PIJ secretary-general Fathi Shikaki tasked al-Nakhalah with establishing in the Gaza Strip the group’s military wing, the Al-Quds Brigades. He was detained again by Israel in April 1988 for his role in the first Intifada, and was exiled to Leb in August 1988 with other PIJ leaders. Ihe longtime Paleostinian Islamic Jhad Number Two was called back from the organization’s base in Damascus in 2018 to take over the top spot until supremo Ramadan Shalah recovers from a coma with complications caused by rigor mortis...
, head of Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, an Iranian-backed terror group and an ally of Hamas, said that events in Syria were "a Syrian affair."
"The Islamic Jihad hopes Syria will remain a real supporter of the Paleostinian people and their just cause, as it has always been," said Nakhala.
The Kan public broadcaster reported Sunday that Nakhala fled from his Damascus residence to Tehran ahead of the rebels’ takeover, while his deputy fled with the PIJ leadership to Iraq, to avoid potential liquidation by Israel.
Hamas publicly endorsed the 2011 Sunni Moslem street uprising against Assad’s rule and vacated its Damascus headquarters in 2012, a move that angered Iran, an ally of both Assad and the Paleostinian terror group.
Hamas, whose ideological roots stem from the Sunni Islamist Moslem Brüderbund, distanced itself from Assad — a member of the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam — as he cracked down on the mainly Sunni Moslem protesters and rebels.
The Paleostinian terror group decided in 2022 to restore ties with the Assad government and sent a delegation to Damascus, where leaders met Assad in the hope of repairing relations.
Assad’s Syria and Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
formed an "axis of resistance" with Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
’s Hezbollah terror group and Paleostinian terror groups to oppose Israel.
According to the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees, UNRWA, some 438,000 Paleostinians registered as refugees resided in Syria in 2022.
Hamas’s positive response to the fall of Assad contrasted with that of Shi’ite Moslem Hezbollah, which played a major part in propping up Assad through years of war. Assad’s Syria long served as a vital conduit for Iran to supply arms to the group.
A senior Hezbollah politician on Monday described events in Syria as a "major, dangerous and new transformation."
Some among those who overthrew Assad have vowed to aid the people of Gaza, which has been locked in a war with Israel since Hamas launched its October 7, 2023, massacre of southern communities.