They are only beginning to organize. This is what the ideologues want. They want the land. Every other country knows it now.
It is easy to align powerful friends such as Saudi Arabia against groups the USA calls terrorists and call Iran in support of terrorists; it quite something else when there are sincere threats to these people. They will not stop after decades of oppression and the majority of the Middle East tired of the diplomatic fights and failures. This is not a good picture for Israel. It was the absolute worse path forward.
Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh attends a rally marking the 30th anniversary of Hamas' founding, in Gaza City December 14, 2017.
High-level Hamas delegation from the Gaza Strip, (click here) including Ismail Haniyeh, its political chairman, traveled to Egypt on Sunday for several hours, a day before a major planned protest in the border region between Israel and the coastal enclave.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said the delegation had been invited to Egypt “to consult about the latest developments related to Palestinian and regional affairs.” He did not elaborate....
...After returning to Gaza, Hayya told reporters that the Hamas delegation met with Egyptian Intelligence Chief Abbas Kamel. He also said that the delegation was promised that “Egypt will continue to stand alongside the Palestinian people…[and] try to lighten the burden of the siege.”...
Russia is picking winners and losers. Stirring up old sentiment to increase the voracity toward war. The Middle East needs peacemakers, but, Israel and the US won't allow it. The ideologues are in power and they think they can fight a war to end any conflict. They will destroy borders for the purpose of expansionism. The writing is on the wall.
May 12, 2018
Cairo - Egypt condemned (click here) on Saturday an online poll on a Russian government-funded news website over whether a disputed border territory belongs to Egypt or Sudan.
Egypt's Foreign Ministry said in an online statement that Russia Today's online poll held a day earlier was "unacceptable conduct" and that it had contacted Russian officials over the issue, demanding an "urgent" explanation. Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry also canceled an interview scheduled for Saturday with the news outlet.
The poll is no longer on the news outlet's website....
The region is finishing a war with a brutal regime in Daesh. Does anyone believe that when Israel advances it's own agenda, with Palestinians dead and wounded every other country will simply stand by and watch? That is not realistic.
Trump has picked the usual USA allies; the Sunnis, because the Shi'ites are easy to call troublemakers. But, the Sunnis do not hate their brothers and sisters, nor take them for fools. It will be Israel and the USA alone. Remember, The Crusades?
This is no joke. It is not a matter of a few bombs over Syria. If this is the will of the region, the fighting will escalate. This is the commemorative mark on the USA embassy in Jerusalem. Take a good look. There is too much blood being spilled. There
Jerusalem – More than 50 Palestinians were killed Monday in mass protests along the border with Gaza while Israel celebrated the U.S. Embassy's contentious move to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
The demonstrations have gone on for weeks and reached a violent apex as Israel marked 70 years since the Jewish nation was established. Palestinians annually mark their resulting displacement on Nakba Day, or the Day of Catastrophe, on May 15.
The Gaza Health Ministry said 55 Palestinians were killed and more than 1,200 wounded Monday in border clashes with the Israeli military, making it the deadliest day of violence with Gaza since 2014.
“This disproportionate and illegal use of lethal force against unarmed civilian protesters is criminal," the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement....
The talks between Yemen and Saudi Arabia might work.
18 April 2018
The United Nations' (click here) new envoy for Yemen has said he plans to unveil a new plan to end the conflict in the Arab world's poorest country within two months.
Martin Griffiths told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that he would develop a new framework to re-launch negotiations between a Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels, but warned that fighting on the ground was still fierce.
"My plan is to put to the council within the next two months a framework for negotiations," he said....
