President Dmitry Medvedev's is meeting with the leader of Hamas.
"Hamas is not an artificial structure," Andrei Nesterenko, the Russian foreign ministry spokesman, said in a statement on Thursday. "It is a movement that draws on the trust and sympathy of a large number of Palestinians. We have regular contacts with this movement.
"It is known that all other participants of the Middle East quartet are also in some sort of contact with Hamas leadership, although for some unknown reason they are shy to publicly admit it," Nesterenko said. Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, on Thursday briefed Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, on the meeting in Damascus, the Syrian capital. The Russian president urged Hamas to work on a reconciliation deal with its rival Fatah, and insisted that "no one" should be excluded from the Middle East peace process, according to his spokeswoman. "Issues related to the re-establishment of Palestinian unity as an indispensable condition for the success of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations were at the centre of the meeting," Nesterenko said.
The usual Tourettes-response from the robotic Israeli spin men was not far behind. Israel's foreign ministry said it was "deeply disappointed" that Medvedev had met Khaled Meshaal, the group's exiled leader, during a visit to Syria this week.
It is not only Hamas and Russia that is putting a thorn into Israel. It is also Russia and Syria, Russia and Turkey, Russia and Iran, etc.
ReplyDeleteIsrael is trying to keep a choke hold on its neighboring choke points. For this they need a constant green light from America.
If America starts thinking globally instead of regionally. The light will go from green to amber to red. Until then they are happy with the status quo. the status quo guarantees their apartheid agenda. And their control through chaos.