Hamas has no problem murdering innocent men, women and children, and otherwise committing atrocities in the name of their religion and cause.
But dare suggest they have allowed Al Qaida to operate in Gaza, and they get their panties in a knot.*
Hamas leader Salah Al-Bardawil reiterated Wednesday the movement’s insistence that there was no Al-Qaeda presence in the Gaza Strip, after an Israeli security official said there were some 500 active “militant activists” operating in the territory.
On Tuesday, head of Israel’s Shin Bet internal security organization Yuval Diskin told a parliamentary committee that the multinational network of militant Islamist groups was most likely behind some of the latest violence from Gaza.
“There are about 500 militant activists that identify with this idea there, and some are in touch with Al-Qaida’s regional command,” the official said.
But Bardawil said that “The aim of these Israeli statements is to create animosity between Hamas, the Palestinians in Gaza and the Western world.”
“Such statements are not new, they get reproduced not and again to create animosity,” he said, adding that the claims that Al-Qaeda is getting deeper into Gaza “borders on incitement.”
Because Hamas’ own actions have not already created animosity with the West.
* So to speak
