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oberliner

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Tue Oct 27, 2015, 01:56 PM Oct 2015

Hamas looks to leverage wave of anti-Israel violence

The studio of Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV is decorated with slogans praising the "knife intifada" against Israel. Video clips and rousing songs glorify the daily attacks, while the presenters all wear black-and-white Keffiyeh scarves.

If this message wasn't clear enough, Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader in Gaza, visited the studio recently and added his own slogan to the wall, scrawling "The Al-Quds Intifada" - the Jerusalem Uprising - in spray paint.

For Hamas, the Islamist group that has controlled Gaza since 2007, this month's surge in violence across Israel, Jerusalem and the West Bank is an opportunity not to be missed.

While most of the stabbings and other attacks that have killed 11 Israelis were carried out by Palestinians acting on their own accord, rather than with political backing, Hamas wants to tap into the popular anger to bolster its cause.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/27/us-israel-palestinians-hamas-idUSKCN0SL1I320151027

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Hamas looks to leverage wave of anti-Israel violence (Original Post) oberliner Oct 2015 OP
Just sick. 6chars Oct 2015 #1
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