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Hamas recently opened offices in Tunisia, official says
[IsraelTimes] Senior terror group leader says HQ operating in moderate North African country with Tunis’s blessingHamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, recently opened up official offices in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, a big shot from the terror group revealed on Sunday. Moussa Abu Marzouk told the Tunisian news channel el-Bilad that Hamas has "new-old" offices in Tunis, publicly acknowledging the headquarters for the first time. The Hamas leader said the offices were opened with the blessing of the Tunisian authorities. He did not specify when the offices were opened. The Islamist terror group kept its main offices in Damascus until 2012, when war and political upheaval forced the group’s politicianship to move to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... . Hamas also keeps official offices in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , rumors swirled that Hamas might open an office in Tunis -- where the exiled secular Paleostinian leadership of the PLO -- led by Yasser Arafat -- were once based through most of the 1980s and early 1990s. Widely viewed as the most liberal of Arab states, Tunisia began cooperating diplomatically with Israel in 1994, and two years later the two countries opened mutual representative offices. Tunisia shut its Tel Aviv office in 2000, however, following the outbreak of the Second Intifada. A popular uprising that began in Tunisia in late 2010 further exacerbated the hostility on the street toward the Jewish state, and after the ouster of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in early 2011, calls for criminalizing ties with Israel abounded. Tunisia is considered the rare success story of the Arab Spring, wherein the toppling of a long-time dictator has produced a series of democratic elections in relative peace. Tunisia’s largest Islamist party Ennahda ditched the term "Islamist" in May in a move seen as highlighting the success story of Tunisian politics. The country still continues to be burdened by high unemployment and two attacks that targeted tourists last year have added more stress to the economy. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-08-31 |
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