Posted on 12/18/2015 10:07:45 PM PST by Olog-hai
Hamas and Islamic State in Sinai have been cooperating in the smuggling of weapons, demonstrating that while Hamas is a nationalist Islamist movement, it also has common roots from which to build a functioning relationship with jihadists.
"Over the past two years, IS Sinai helped Hamas move weapons from Iran and Libya through the peninsula, taking a generous cut from each shipment," according to a Washington Institute for Near East Policy report on Tuesday by Ehud Yaari, a Lafer International Fellow at the think tank. [...]
Both Hamas and Islamic State trace their origins back to the Egypt Muslim Brotherhood, founded by Sheikh Hassan al-Banna. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
Why is the U.S. backing ISIS? Overthrowing Assad was that important?
Fixed your post to help answer your question.
There’s that Muslim Brotherhood link. You know, the “moderate” group that Obama lets in the front door of the White House.
Overthrowing Assad was that important?
The muzzie brotherhood has wanted to overthrow Assad. They got Obama/Hillary backing to overthrow Libya. They supported the overthrow of Mubarak in Egypt.
I guess they realize their best opportunity is when Hussein Obama is in office.
Why do we want to overthrow Assad? He wasn’t a threat. Why overthrow Libya? They certainly weren’t a threat. Why Egypt? They certainly haven’t been a threat to us or their neighbors in the middle east.
Obama’s (and the Arab Spring) seems to have backfired in Egypt.
Good thing the regime promoted the destructive fantasy, Arab Spring
...And in other news of the day, the sun still rises from the east.
hardly a new enemy, and from the Sinai they can strike at the little satan as well. Egypt doesn’t even get a satan ranking.
daniel 11
king of the north is syria
king of the south is egypt
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