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Columnist: Has Hamas sold Gaza for Qatari cash, limited Israeli benefits?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Gazoo residents have apparently started "branding Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", with slurs", accusing the group of "selling out" the enclave in return for aid from 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...and more collaboration with Israel, a newspaper column published this week suggests. Muhammad Shehada, a writer and activist from the Gazoo Strip who writes for Haaretz, published a column this week that suggested Gazooks were angry at Hamas after the group reached a "limited set of understandings" with Israel earlier this month. "’They sold us out!’ Gazooks began to whisper," according to the columnist. The deal with Israel included keeping Paleostinian protesters hundreds of meters away from the separation fence with Israel. The site is where demonstrators weekly protested by tire-burning and firing incendiary kite-flying at Israeli farms and assets -- an act Hamas has previously defended the Paleostinian right in doing so. On social media, Gazooks used Arabic hashtags equivalents to #sell-outs, at which they wrote messages like: "[Suddenly] burning tires have become ’unhealthy’ and [approaching] the electronic fence is suicide! #sell-outs." In return for this calm, the writer notes that Israel restored the status quo ante, as well as other "limited" "benefits." This included the expansion of the Gazoo fishing zone for a few a months, bringing back the heavily-restricted entry of relief and commercial vessels into the enclave, following a full-on closure. And a tentative supply of Qatari fuel and cash to pay Hamas’ "Basically, a return to square one" the writer said. Gazooks unleashed some of their anger during a visit by Qatari ambassador earlier in November. Not only his convoy was hurled with stones, but also he was met with angry cries such as "collaborator." Posted by: Fred 2018-11-27 |
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