Is Russia full-on supporting Hamas?

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2018/11/russia-hamas-relations-support-israel.html ^

[Justa]

“This thread isn’t about Ukraine. It is about Israel....”

Might as well be. The belligerents in each case are aligned and directed by the KGB.

Just because the West has public record laws which disclose payments made to other countries doesn’t mean the West’s payments fund terrorists.

Just like the Z-nicks in UKR Hamas is wholly supported by Russian and Iranian funding.

[dforest]

Biden funded this. Pay attention. This is not about Ukraine. Go post on Ukraine threads and quit trying to make this awful attack about Ukraine.

Israel is not a big Ukraine supporter, so go away.

[Allegra]

This thread isn’t about Ukraine. It is about Israel who isn’t and hasn’t been interested in Ukraine.

Thank you.

I think the reason the Ukie Yipyappers are behaving even worse than usual is that they’re angry that this horrible, unprovoked event in Israel has pushed Ukraine and Zelensky off of the headlines. These selfish, repulsive jerks are desperately trying to push and drag their pet obsession back into the news. Their behavior is beyond disgusting.

[Golden Eagle]

This thread isn’t about Ukraine. It is about Israel who isn’t and hasn’t been interested in Ukraine.

I beg your pardon, but many in Israel, especially the elite, are very interested in Ukraine. It's a well known goal of theirs to turn Ukraine into what's called "New Israel" or "New Jerusalem" and an expanded Jewish state. Look it up sometime.

[Robert DeLong]

Wrong, those came after. They sought autonomy initially. See, you really know nothing about it al all. All you know is the propaganda being spoon fed to you.

[Allegra]

LOL - I think Golden Eagle meant to include you in his bumbling response. 😄

(As I said, they’re just not the sharpest knives in the drawer.)

[dforest]

Ah hah, I am glad for someone to say it. That said, we really do not know, do we? It will be the new Israel for secular leftist homo Jews of the NWO stripe.

Not my cup of tea to support that. Maybe Nuval Harari, will run the joint. Got to get rid of those pesky Christian Orthodox folks first.

That will be no holy like place for actual practicing Jews. It will be for the Rothchild types.

I get a kick of your use of expanded state. Another shady term for taking over someone elses crib to add to your own without admitting you have no right to do it because those people dying in that country are told they are dying for their freedom.

Sorry, that is just wrong.

[USA-FRANCE]

It didn’t only come “after” as you say.
The devious Kremlin seeds of invasion were implanted right from start in those eastern Ukrainian regions.
They just “disguised” it all making it look like a “movement for independence”. Typical BS KGB style tactics.

[lonestar67]

Not fooled.

Been to Gaza.

Hamas can go to hell.

Iran can also go to hell.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Hi again, Allegra. We agree on our prayers for Israel as well as the Christians under the government of Hamas.

Being the curious sort, the article which has spun this thread of competing comments, I thought to have a look at the website which titles its article "Is Russia full-on supporting Hamas?" --

A whois.com query:

Domain: al-monitor.com
Registrar: DreamHost, LLC
Registered On: 2011-04-11
Registrant Name: Proxy Protection LLC
Organization: Proxy Protection LLC
Street: 417 Associated Rd #327
C/O al-monitor.com
City: Brea
State: CA

Of the head of al-monitor's chief, one reads:

"Andrew Parasiliti is president and chief content officer of Al-Monitor. He previously served as director of RAND’s Center for Global Risk and Security and international marketing manager of RAND’s National Security Research Division; editor of Al-Monitor; executive director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies-US and corresponding director, IISS-Middle East; a principal at the BGR Group; foreign policy advisor to US Senator Chuck Hagel; director of the Middle East Initiative at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government; and director of programs at the Middle East Institute. He received his Ph.D. from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; an M.A. from the University of Virginia; and a B.A., cum laude, from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is an adjunct political scientist at RAND and a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Virginia Club of New York."

Source: https://www.al-monitor.com/authors/andrew-parasiliti.html

Their contact page shows no snail mail address offered. But ZoomInfo shows them at "Headquarters - 1850 K St NW Ste 1225, Washington, District of Columbia, 20006."

Source: https://www.zoominfo.com/c/al-monitor/355612103

Wiki informs: "Al-Monitor (Arabic: المونيتور) is a news website launched in February 2012 by the Arab American entrepreneur Jamal Daniel[1] and based in Washington, DC,[2] United States. Al-Monitor provides reporting and analysis from and about the Middle East." More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Monitor

Thus one comes across some very familiar names. RAND Corporation and the Council on Foreign Relations seem informative, to place this in a geopolitical frame. The so-called K Street players are involved. But, gosh, doesn't the website name sound so not-DC?

Additionally, since graphics seem to play an important role in this thread, here is an article from another website along with an accompanying graphic:

Russia's Putin welcomes Netanyahu back to power in Israel Al jazeera, 30 December 2022.

Al-Monitor (K Street, DC) asked: "Is Russia full-on supporting Hamas?" It is most interesting that the last sentence in Adnan Abu Amer's article reads: "They disagree on several issues, including armed resistance, their take on Israel and their relations with Syria."

I wonder how many read through the entire article and got to that last sentence?

But as one looks a bit further into names, The CFR has an interesting small detail worth noting, courtesy of Wiki:

"In 2019, CFR was criticized for accepting a donation from Len Blavatnik, a Ukrainian-born billionaire with close links to Vladimir Putin. It was reported to be under fire from its own members and dozens of international affairs experts over its acceptance of a $12 million gift to fund an internship program. Fifty-five international relations scholars and Russia experts wrote a letter to the organization's board and CFR's president, Richard N. Haass. "It is our considered view that Blavatnik uses his 'philanthropy'—funds obtained by and with the consent of the Kremlin, at the expense of the state budget and the Russian people—at leading western academic and cultural institutions to advance his access to political circles. We regard this as another step in the longstanding effort of Mr. Blavatnik—who ... has close ties to the Kremlin and its kleptocratic network—to launder his image in the West."

So from Al-Monitor on K Street, Washington DC, with ties to the CFR in NYC, to ties to the Kremlin via a Ukrainian born oligarch? All in the context of Hamas now at war with Israel. The Gordian knot is complex, and all the more complex with Biden and Iran and billlions.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

[Robert DeLong]

You are wrong. They sought autonomy first.

[Vermont Lt]

Do you find you need to repeat a lot stuff because your Russian accent is so heavy? Because your post makes no sense. Although I respect you for posting in broken English because I could not post in Russian. So, that’s a hat tip to you.

[kiryandil]

I find that I have to repeat a lot of stuff so that cryptoDemocrats who've been living in the Northeast too long can understand it.

Ifyaknowwhutahmean.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Since you’ve lost The Ukraine narrative, let’s try triggering WW3 over Israel. You guys are so predictable and pathetic. Sad little warmongers.

[Rocco DiPippo]

"I presume those here who want to defund Americas help to Ukraine because it’s too costly also want to defund Americas help to Israel??"

The reason most Americans don't want another penny going to Youcrayne is because it's one of Europe's most corrupt nations - a place which even globalist Jean Claude Juncker recently described as a cesspit of corruption: "Anyone who has had anything to do with Ukraine knows that this is a country that is corrupt at all levels of society."

Youcrayne is a child trafficking center, organ trafficking center, it hosts foreign biolabs where deadly diseases are jacked up and enhanced, its government is utterly corrupt and filled with kleptocrats, its military is peppered with neo-Nazis, it is home to massive money laundering operations and it has never been an ally of the US in any real sense.

Israel, on the other hand, ticks none of those boxes and it has been a stronghold against Islamic terrorism and an important partner of the US in that fight for decades.

Also, last time I checked US weaponry sent to Israel wasn't being sold off to the highest bidder like some of it is in Youcrayne.

[MinorityRepublican]

Yes.