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Hamas rejects Iran offer of funding in return for backing in Saudi row

Jan 15, 2016 11:24 pm By Robert Spencer

Sunni-Shi’ite jihad continuing to heat up.

Haniyeh Khamenei

“‘Hamas rejects Iran offer of funding in return for backing in Saudi row,’” by Avi Issacharoff, Times of Israel, January 15, 2016:

Hamas has rejected a proposal by Tehran to restore ties in return for its support in Iran’s current battle with Saudi Arabia, a source in the Palestinian terror group told pan-Arab paper Asharq al-Awsat on Friday.

According to the report, Khaled Qaddumi, Hamas’ representative in Tehran, met two weeks ago with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javed Zarif, who offered to renew Iranian financial support for the group on a regular basis and according to its needs, if Hamas were to officially declare its allegiance to Iran over Saudi Arabia’s execution of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr earlier this month.

According to the sources, the proposal triggered a dispute within Hamas. The heads of the organization in the Gaza Strip supported normalization of ties with Tehran, while Qatar-based politburo chief Khaled Mashaal was reluctant to commit, fearing that Hamas would lose its support among Sunni Arab states. As such, the report says, Mashaal officially rejected the offer from Iran.

“The equation is clear: as a liberation movement, we need the support of everyone,” a Hamas official in the West Bank told the newspaper. He stressed the group “will never join an alliance against the Sunni world.”

Relations between Iran and Hamas have been shaky since the Palestinian organization came out against Syrian President Bashar Assad, a key Iranian ally, and left its headquarters in Damascus with the outbreak of the country’s civil war in 2011….

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  1. Angemon says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 6:55 am

    He stressed the group “will never join an alliance against the Sunni world.”

    Sunnis will be sunnis…

  2. spartan says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 6:58 am

    And Hamas goes to………the highest bidder!

  3. Mark says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 8:36 am

    Please view share and give a thumbs up to the following documentary, https://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y. It is very revealing about how treacherous Islam is.

  4. Oliver says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 3:09 pm

    Is it too much to hope that Gaza will turn into a civil war (again) and these pieces of crap will go back to killing each other?

    They did not do a good enough job, last time around.

  5. salim says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 3:22 pm

    Muslims are both idiots and evil, but Sunni Muslims are so evil and a little idiots while Shia Muslims are so idiots and a little evil.
    Both sides prove this everyday, they also proved it throughout history.

  6. gravenimage says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    Hamas rejects Iran offer of funding in return for backing in Saudi row
    ………………………

    More Sunni/Shia jockeying for power and influence.

    It’s like Alien vs. Predator…

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