Posted on 07/24/2014 11:17:07 AM PDT by SJackson
Ambassador Dore Gold served as Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in 1997-1999. Today he is an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
Hamas has seen a strange turnabout in its international status, and this reversal is truer than ever since it launched its rocket war against Israel three weeks ago. In recent years, the Gaza-based Palestinian terror group and its parent organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, have seen their fortunes in the Middle East rise and then fall precipitously. Today, while Hamas is being shunned by its traditional Arab backers, many Western countries and especially their foreign policy elites have begun talking more seriously about the benefits of reducing the isolation to which the group has been subjected by Europe and the United States.
Almost all of the Arab states, save Qatar, have made strong moves to curtail Hamas’s funding, influence and power. Saudi Arabia, which once bankrolled more than 50 percent of the Hamas budget, has largely cut off the organization. In March, the Saudi Interior Ministry declared the entire Muslim Brotherhood network to be a terrorist organization, a move which complicated Hamas’s position even further. After Hamas sided with Jabhat al-Nusra, the Sunni al-Qaeda affiliate that is attempting to topple the Assad regime, Hamas was thrown out of Syria, one of its most important strategic partners for decades. True, Hamas still has Iran, but their military connection has only alienated the Arab world further.
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Not supressed, suppressing. The LA Times refusal to be a news source is ongoing. It would be relevant today.
Truth is that is the other way around. The US no longer exists. At least Israel is putting up a fight.
We have no borders. The US is open ground for anyone who wants to walk in. That means we no longer exist as a nation.
Al-Jazeera gives Israeli spokesmen far more uninterrupted airtime than the US networks do or ever would.
Israeli sources are actually permitted to complete not only sentences, but complete arguments.
Astounding, really, compared to US standards.
What Jew haters dont realize is if Israel really wanted to kill Palestinians they would have flattened all of Gaza by now..would have taken them 5 minutes to do it..instead Israel notifies in ADVANCE where they are about to strike, tell me, what country informs people where they are about to bomb hours in advance of doing so. Israel tries to save lives, Hamas uses their people as human shields to use as propaganda
We don’t have borders anymore, Syrians, Ukrainians, they are entering the US everyday along with the Mexican drug cartels..Obama does this because he wants votes..someone should ask ANY Dem, if these illegals were to vote Republican would you still want them here
Al-Jazeera..WOW, that’s sad that even they show Israel more respect than our US media..I would love to see any member of the press, especially those on CNN and MSNBC to live under constant rocket fire, throw some rockets at Brian Williams mansion, or Wolf Blitzer’s mansion, I want to see how long it takes them to poop themselves
The party of the KKK is alive and hating.
Yep, but now they are wearing burqa’s and they have the media in their corner..truly scary stuff..never believed in my lifetime the Holocaust could happen again but it could..I can see it happening
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