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Hamas again
Why is Moscow other people's terrorists?
Mixed with Mashaal.
Moscow found the original way of mediation in the Middle East process. At first I invited - by the way, for the third time! - Khaleda Mashaal, the head of the Politburo Hamas, an organization that most civilized countries included in the list of terrorist ones. And immediately after him on Monday, the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu came to Moscow. Whether the result will be as a question The New Times
Why was Mashaal again invited to Moscow? After all, he already had meetings with Sergey Lavrov, not only in Moscow, but also in Damascus, where the headquarters of Hamas is now located. And what - did you manage to advance the settlement process at least after that? Moscow is obsessed with the idea of holding a peaceful conference in the Middle East, thus capturing the leading positions in the "quartet" of international intermediaries. And now he does not spare diplomatic efforts, alternately persuading all its possible participants: Moderate Palestinians from Fath, who quarreled with them Hamas, well, Israel, of course. And consent, clear, is easiest to knock out, acting as a hospitable host. Well, the leaders of Hamas are always happy to visit Moscow. Even if representatives of the Israeli leadership come here also after them. True, they say, when Mashaal found out that immediately after him in Moscow they were waiting for the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he grinned, they say, well, the inventors are these Russians! After all, he probably has not forgotten that sensational story of 12 years ago.
King and antidote
Morning September 25, 1997, Amman, Jordan. Khaled Mashaal with his family and security arrived at his headquarters in the center of the Jordanian capital. Two people approached him at the entrance, one of them poked him in his ear with a miniature silver apparatus. The injection was supposed to become fatal, but the attacker saw the daughter of Mashaal - and his hand trembled ... The bodyguards tried to grab the attackers, but they broke out, got into the car and left. However, the guards managed to contact the Jordanian police, which detained the attempts. The arrested found Canadian passports. But when the Canadian diplomats called by the police visited the arrested in prison, they doomedly said that they did not need their help. It turned out that passports are fake and prisoners are not Canadians at all, but Israeli intelligence officers Mossad. Still a living Mashaal was taken to a hospital, where Jordanian doctors diagnosed: poisoning. The King of Jordan Hussein, now deceased, reported: doctors do not know the substance that Mashaal was poisoned, and therefore is not able to choose an antidote.
The angry Hussein called Benjamin Netanyahu, who then first occupied the chair of the Prime Minister of Israel, and demanded to send an antidote. If Mashaal will die, Hussein threatened, the Israelis caught will be sentenced to death and hang it. Netanyahu ordered to immediately send an antidote to Amman. But Hussein called the US President Bill Clinton and shared his doubts: what if the syringe with medicine sent from Israel - an attempt to finish the leader of Hamas? Then Netanyahu ordered to transfer the chemical formula of the drug to the Jordanians. In other words, he saved the man, whom he seemed to be ordered to kill before this - after all, the leader Hamas was perceived in Israel as a number one terrorist. The older Israeli leaders thought about how to quickly establish peace with neighbors. They lived with a sense of fragility of Israel. Netanyahu did not have such a feeling. He believed that he leads a state that can repulse terrorists and should not be afraid of anyone. Netanyahu ordered Mossad to deliver a response to terrorists. The leadership of Hamas hid in Jordan, they sent an operational group there ...
Khaled Mashaal completely recovered, but refused to admit that he was saved by the Israeli antidote. “Allah saved me,” he said enthusiastically. - Anyone who believes in Allah, in his business and in his right, is able to cope with anything ... "
Conversation without intermediaries
Hamas arose in 1987 and has since considered himself part of the World Islamic Muslim Muslim movement. The goal is to seize power in each individual Arab country in order to ultimately form a single Islamic state. The main tactical technique of Hamas was the shares of suicide bombers. The chairman of the Council of the Federation of the Russian Federation, Sergei Mironov, during a visit to Israel in March 2002, was speechless, seeing with their own eyes how they scoop blood from a cafe where Palestinians had just killed a bomb, killing 24 people. After that, Mironov canceled the meeting with Palestinian leaders, including Yasira Arafat.
In September 1999, Jordan closed the Hamas representative office in Amman. Khaled Mashaal moved to Syria. Today, Hamas controls the gas sector - this is half the Palestinian autonomy. Without a hamas, no settlement in the Middle East is impossible, Russian diplomats say, so now it is necessary to maintain contacts with him. Usually with characters of this kind there are intermediaries who do not have official status, as a rule, scouts. They can talk frankly, without compromising their state. Official recognition is proposed only in exchange for some serious concessions. And the leader of Hamas is accepted in Moscow immediately at the highest level!
Even Russian diplomats say that, regularly accepting Mashaal, they intend to seize the Israelis and Palestinians at the negotiating table. But - it is necessary - nothing happens. And it is unlikely that it will turn out in the foreseeable perspective. Hamas leaders came to the conclusion: it is impossible to defeat Israel in the war. But Israeli society has an Achilles heel: it created a comfortable life among the desert and wants to enjoy it. These people are not like the former settlers and cannot stand it, if methodically, to kill their children every day. Therefore, Palestinian militants firing at Israeli cities with rockets and explodes the civilian population. And Khaled Mashaal does not want to put up with either the head of Fath Mahmud Abbas or with Israel.
Dead idea
The whole world thinks that in the Middle East the dispute is still coming due to tiny plots of land or about the status of Jerusalem ... In fact, all this is in the past. The idea of negotiations is dead! Many Palestinian families still store the keys to the houses they left during the First Arab-Israeli War of 1948, in the hope of returning to them. They are in a trap between the past, which cannot be forgotten, and the future that they try to create. Initially, the number of refugees was estimated at several hundred thousand. Now - with children and grandchildren - several million. If they move to Israel, it will no longer be a Jewish, but an Arab state. The combination of terror and demography works for Palestinians - Hamas bet on this. Why negotiate with people who should disappear from this land forever? The Israelis also do not see the benefits of negotiations. Since power in the Palestinian territories in the hands of Hamas, they reason, then what is the point of making concessions if they still want to destroy us? It is more logical to isolate yourself more reliable, to respond with a blow to a blow and prove that the terror will not break Israel - for the second time the Jews will not leave Palestine.
Hamas is the abbreviation of the Arab names of the organization “Harakat al-Mukavam al-Islamiy” (“Islamic resistance movement”). Created in the Gaza Strip December 15, 1987. In 2006, Hamas won the election, receiving the majority of places in the Palestinian Legislative Council, and a year later he seized power in the gas sector. Canada, the USA, Israel, Japan and the European Union announced Hamas a terrorist organization. Jordan forbade the activity of Hamas on its territory. Australia and Great Britain announced only the law of the military wing of the organization. Russia does not consider Hamas to terrorist organizations. Official explanation: Hamas did not commit attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Over the past four years, Khaled Mashaal met five times with the leadership of the Russian Foreign Ministry. In March 2006 and February 2007 (in Moscow), in March 2008 and May 2009 (in Damascus)-with the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov, in January 2009 (in Damascus)-with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexander Saltanov.