Hamas Urges Faith in Arab Spring despite Morsi Ouster
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Ismail Haniya, head of the Hamas government in Gaza, appealed in a Friday sermon to have faith in the Arab Spring despite the ouster of Egypt's Islamist president Mohamed Morsi by the army.
"Do not fear for the Palestinian cause or for the resistance (against Israel) or for Gaza. Egypt is behind us, as are the Arab and Islamic countries," Haniya said.
"We believe good will emerge from this Arab Spring, these revolutions and this rebirth. We expect the Arab Spring cycle to continue until its objectives are attained, including our own cause."
Haniya's political adviser Youssef Rizq on Thursday criticized on his Facebook page the ouster of Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president.
"What happened in Egypt, his eviction and removal of power, is not part of a genuine democratic process, because they used military force and not the voice of the people through elections," Rizq said.
Hamas has not officially reacted to Morsi's removal whose election it feted in June 2012 as he hails from the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, to which the Palestinian Islamist movement is affiliated.
Under Morsi, as well as former Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, Egypt promoted reconciliation efforts between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement which governs the West Bank and Hamas which rules the Gaza Strip.
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The secular alawite regime have been using extreme violence against its opponents ever since it came to power. Even against fellow alawites who have opposed the president or the baath. So instead of telling sunnis that violence must stop, tell assad and his thugs, tell maliki and his thugs, tell king abdullah and his thugs, tell obama and his thugs, tell putin and his thugs, tell the mexican drug thugs and so on. Violence is not a sunni thing. Its a human thing and as a supporter of bashar el assad, you have no right whatsoever to point fingers since you yourself support an evil violent man who thanks to his stubbornes, over 100 000 syrians have been killed before as well as eäafter the uprising.
