Is Hamas urging restraint on the part of Iran? Well, that probably wasn’t on anyone’s bingo card for today, but it’s happening. Hamas has now released a statement, appealing to their patron state, Iran, to stop randomly tossing missiles and drones around the Persian Gulf states, lest they lose any remaining vestiges of support in the region.
Will Iran listen to them? It’s hard to tell what desperate men will do, but Hamas’s interest in this is clear.
The Palestinian armed group Hamas has called on Iran to stop its attacks on Gulf states, in a rare appeal to its key ally.
In a statement, the Tehran-backed group urged its “brothers in Iran to avoid targeting neighbouring countries”, saying all regional nations should co-operate “to preserve the bonds of brotherhood”.
At the same time, Hamas, which governs Gaza, affirmed Tehran’s right to defend itself against attacks by the US and Israel, who are continuing to strike Iran.
The Iranian authorities have said their own retaliatory strikes target “American installations” on Gulf soil rather than the neighbours themselves – but many attacks have hit civilian infrastructure.
Hamas does have an interest in this. First, let’s employ some plain and accurate language here, instead of this outpouring of legacy media horse squeeze: Hamas isn’t a “Palestinian armed group.” They are a vicious, barbaric Islamic terrorist group, responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent men, women and children. Their concern in this matter is simple: They don’t want the flow of support from Iran to stop.
In its Saturday’s statement, Hamas said it was “following with deep concern the ongoing war in the region”.
It said it called upon “all states and international organisations to work towards halting [the war] immediately”.
Translation: “We don’t want the theocratic regime in Iran to fall, because then our flow of weapons, munitions, and other supplies will stop, and that will seriously hamper our ability to plan and organize another deadly, barbaric attack on Israel.”
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There’s some Richter scale irony in this pleading from Hamas. They want Iran to stop randomly tossing missiles and suicide drones around the Gulf states, not for any humanitarian concerns, not out of any concern that Iran may hit non-military targets, but because they don’t want Iran to anger every single other nation in the area. That would put the correlation of force even more overwhelmingly against Iran than they already are, and we should remember, Iran’s civilian leadership already appears to have scurried off to Mashhad, up near the Afghan border, as my friend, fellow veteran, and colleague streiff recently reported.
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One can hardly blame them, not with American bombs and missiles falling all around them like a spring rain.
Hamas isn’t concerned about the nations of the Persian Gulf, other than that they don’t want them joining in Operation Epic Fury to end the vicious, barbaric rule of the mullahs in Iran. Hamas isn’t concerned with the fate of any innocent civilians in that region, unless those innocents are Jews, in which case Hamas will try to kill them themselves. No, Hamas is only worried about the support from Iran ending, because without that, they are just a group of ill-equipped, poverty-stricken barbarians, hiding under any flat rock lest the Mossad and the Israel Defense Forces find them and give them what they deserve.
Then, there’s this:
Iran has not publicly commented on Hamas’s statement.
You don’t say.
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