Posted on 12/10/2011 4:55:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv
...These new developments caught Hamas unprepared. Not only is there a need to find new accommodations for Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal and company, but there is also a political price: the need to decrease terror and transform itself from a pro-Iranian/Syrian "muqawama" ("resistance") movement into a typical political party of the Muslim Brotherhood-type that are now in the process of taking control in the Arab world...
...they prefer engagement with Cairo because the prospects of Muslim Brotherhood dominance are much more advanced in Egypt and the close vicinity to Gaza... The new prime minister of Jordan, Judge Awn Khasawneh, made it clear that he was interested in opening a new page with Hamas and that the old decision to shut down its offices in Amman was a mistake...
The declared policy of Jordanian Prime Minister Khasawneh, as well as the elections in Morocco that brought to power the Justice and Development Party - which is a Muslim Brotherhood party - was not approved in Riyadh, where the Saudis have taken a firm position against the Brotherhood. As a result, the price that Jordan might pay for hosting Hamas could be the denial of its joining the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which might inflict a blow to Jordan's economy. The same applies to Morocco, especially now after the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Tunisia, Rashid al-Ghannouchi, threatened that all the monarchies in the Middle East are not immune from collapse... the Emirate of Qatar, is championing the Brotherhood's spread across the Middle East. The widening gaps inside the GCC are adversely affecting Hamas' prospects to be re-installed in Amman... Not only is Saudi Arabia angry at Qatar's policy of promoting the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran and Syria are even more so.
(Excerpt) Read more at jcpa.org ...
I’ve got a bug up there about Syria tonight. It’s been sliding into broader chaos there, but as a news story, it seems to have slid into back-burner status.
This article is all over the place. Hamas = Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt’s been working on rapprochement with Iran. Why would Hamas decrease terror rather than increase it?
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