by Michael Rubin
Hamas is a terrorist group in search of a home. Uprooted by the Syrian civil war, and shaken by the Egyptian coup, the Hamas leadership has taken temporary shelter in Qatar, but that tiny emirate is showing every sign that they want the Islamist radicals to move on. So where would a radical Islamist terrorist group dedicated to the eradication of the State of Israel and whose charter endorses the crudest anti-Semitism turn? Perhaps to Turkey, America’s NATO ally and a country whose leader President Obama identified as one of his top personal foreign friends. According to Hürriyet Daily News:
The prime ministry in Ankara was the
venue for a meeting between the head of Hamas’ political bureau, Khaled
Mashaal, and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan today. The
meeting, which started at 7 p.m. and lasted for three hours, was closed
to the press. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, National
Intelligence Agency (MİT) chief Hakan Fidan, Deputy Undersecretary for
the Prime Minister’s Office İbrahim Kalın and advisor Sefer Turan were
also present at the meeting, Anadolu Agency reported. The meeting
between Mashaal and Erdoğan came around four months after their latest
meeting. It came at a time when rumors suggest that Mashaal, currently
in exile in Qatar, is searching for another place to live.
Michael Rubin
Source: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/10/09/will-hamas-relocate-to-turkey/
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