"Hooray Rejoice" - Arabic Newspaper Says Hamas Opening Office In Cairo.

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"Hooray Rejoice" - Arabic Newspaper Says Hamas Opening Office In Cairo.(globalmbreport).A London-based pan-Arab newspaper is reporting that the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has agreed to let Hamas open an office in eastern Cairo and establish a joint committee with Hamas to discuss issues of security along the Gaza-Egypt border. According to an Israeli media article citing the report:

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 Less than one year after closing its headquarters in Damascus, Hamas’s ‘outside’ leadership has found a new home in the Egyptian capital of Cairo. Hamas leaders are split between Gaza, where they took violent control in 2007, the West Bank, where they seek to gain control, and elsewhere in the region. London-based daily Al-Hayat reported Tuesday that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood administration has agreed to open a Hamas office in eastern Cairo and establish a joint committee with Hamas to discuss issues of security along the Gaza-Egypt border. Hamas’s Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh will meet with his counterpart Hisham Kandil in Egypt on Thursday, the daily said. Al-Hayat reported that the new security committee will exchange intelligence information regarding the border area. Prominent members of Hamas will be part of the new committee, including Ahmad Ja’abari, commander of the Al-Qassam Brigades (the movement’s military wing); Moussa Abu-marzouq; Bassem Na’im; and Ayman Taha, a security adviser to PM Ismail Haniyeh. During his visit to Cairo on Thursday, Haniyah will discuss the creation of a free trade zone near the Rafah Border Crossing and the connection of Gaza to a regional electric grid, rendering it independent of Israeli energy. In return, Al-Hayat reports, Hamas agreed to hand over a number of suspects in the August attack to Egypt.

This development, if confirmed, was foreshadowed by an earlier report that Hamas had been seeking even closer ties to the new government in Egypt.
A post from February 2012 reported that the Hamas political leadership had left its long-time home in Syria
The Hamas charter states that it “is one of the wings of the Muslim Brothers in Palestine” and in July 2011, Egyptian Brotherhood leader Dr. Essam al-Arian acknowledged the relationship between the Brotherhood and Hamas stating “The Muslim Brotherhood Group as a public Islamic organization is the umbrella for many Islamist movements, including Hamas” In June 2007, a Hamas journalist acknowledged the role that the “international Muslim Brotherhood” has played in providing funds for the purchase of weapons for the organization.The Global Muslim Brotherhood supports Hamas through the Union of Good, a worldwide coalition of charities headed by Global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi.
For more information on Moussa Abu-marzouq (aka Mousa Abu Marzook), a former leader in the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, go here.Hmmmm................No wonder the Democratic platform advocates talking to Hamas,Read the full story here.

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