Hamas is fleeing the fall of Damascus: The rats are fleeing the sinking ship. Hamas has pulled most of its staff out of Damascus. This is excellent news. A terror organization in disarray is a terror organization that is hampered in planning terror attacks. And Hamas is looking for a new home. May they have no luck at all in finding one outside Gaza.
Hamas would keep a skeletal presence in Syria to “book a seat in a post-Assad era,”” one diplomat said.
“Meanwhile, Hamas officials are on planes most of the time, bolstering ties with other countries like Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, Sudan, or in contact to explore new bases and not a sole base,” the diplomat added.
Arabs tend to have long memories. I don’t think the Syrians are going to forget how tight Hamas was with the Dorktator.
What, you mean it’s not okay to blame Israel for Arab anti-Semitism? The Obama administration is hurrying to disavow its ambassador’s words to a Jewish conference, where he said that Muslim anti-Semitism can be blamed on Israeli actions (like building settlements and not making peace with the Palestinians). And why is the administration backing off? Because of the reaction, not because of the words. Leon Panetta said essentially the same thing, in longer form. Only he blamed Israel for all the ills of the Middle East, basically.
Well, if the West armed the rebels, history wouldn’t repeat itself: Now the media is referring to the destruction of Hama during the 1980s, Syria’s last uprising, and saying that history is repeating itself. Not really. I no longer think Baby Assad will survive the Syrian uprisings. I think if he were going to massacre tens of thousands in a few short days, he’d have done so. It isn’t that he hasn’t got the will. I believe he does have it. But apparently, the world will no longer turn a blind eye to that kind of violence. At least, not in the Middle East, and not today. Darfur? Nobody cared. Rwanda? Puh-leeze.
The dual-loyalty charge, alive and well in the U.K.: So you’re a Labour member of Parliament, the more progressive party, the tolerant ones who believe in multiculturalism and all people being equal and human rights for all. But of course, there’s something known here as The Exception Clause, where we add the words “except for Jews” to statements like that, and you then can understand why this so-called liberal, progressive M.P. charged that Britain’s first Jewish ambassador to Israel can’t be loyal to the U.K. because he’s a Zionist.
Britain needed, he said, “someone with roots in the UK [who] can’t be accused of having Jewish loyalty”.
No, there’s no truth to the charge that anti-Semitism in polite society is growing by leaps and bounds.
So Hamas is bugging out from Damascus, eh? Perhaps this means that Chipmunk Cheeks has to come out of his undisclosed location, which might make him vulnerable to Zahal or the Mossad. Let us hope that is the case. Hope and change: Nasrullah has to change Fuehrer bunkers and we hope he is caught in the process.
“I no longer think Baby Assad will survive the Syrian uprisings.”
Good riddance. We’ll have to deal with a Syria dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, however. Then when the Ikhwan Muslimi has overstayed its welcome, the Syrians will have to do it all over again to get rid of the religious fascist tyrants. I’ll bet the Ikhwan’s Commission for the Prevention of Virtue and the Promotion of Vice, like the one in the Wahhabist Entity, will be almost as irritating to the Syrians as are the Dorktator’s secret police.