ISIS brings Israel and Hamas together

Good day all. Well, it looks like Hell has frozen over. Israel and Hamas may have found common ground. Yes, they are both under attack from ISIS.

Now I don’t think that Hamas and Israel will be sitting down to a nice steak BBQ anytime soon. I also think that Israel is just fine with Hamas and ISIS going at each other. Still, it’s interesting that Hamas and Israel actually have a common enemy. Here are a few details from Fox News:

Sworn enemies Israel and Hamas may have found the one thing that can unite them: The threat of ISIS taking over Gaza.

ISIS taking over the Gaza strip is almost a guarantee of Israel going in again, and this time pretty much leveling the place.

Hamas is desperately trying to stop ISIS from gaining a foothold within its territory. In recent weeks, jihadi groups loyal to ISIS have exchanged gun and rocket fire with Hamas authorities, planted bombs in public buildings and threatened an all-out war with the Gaza government. Hamas reportedly blew up a mosque believed to be a base for ISIS loyalists and has detained significant numbers of suspects.

“In light of Hamas’ latest action, we renew our allegiance to [ISIS leader] Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and call on him to strengthen his influence, to open up a war in Palestine in order to unite together in a war against the Jews and their accomplices,” a group calling itself Supporters of the Islamic State in Jerusalem said in a statement last month after the mosque in the central Gaza section of Deir Al-Balah was destroyed.

Nice of this goat molesting moron to identify himself to Mossad and Hamas. Personally, I think Mossad is just going to sit back and let these two groups slaughter each other. As Napoleon once said,

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

The statement demanded that Hamas release all ISIS loyalists and was followed days later by a bombing near Hamas’ security headquarters.

ISIS has now expanded beyond Iraq and Syria and into Yemen, Libya, Egypt and Somalia. Although Palestinian leaders refuse to publicly acknowledge an ISIS presence threat in Gaza, the group’s black flag is now often seen there.

We can thank that Stuttering Clusterf**k of a Miserable Failure for the rise of ISIS. President “JV Team” has created a mess that will have to be cleaned up down the road and could result in a Third World War that will kill hundreds of millions.

The developments have Hamas and Israel, which sees an ISIS takeover of Gaza as a bigger threat than Hamas, reportedly talking through back channels about how to squeeze out ISIS, a collaboration that some commentators say could be the basis for possible détente between sworn enemies. Any potential agreement, informal or otherwise, does not appear imminent, but there is a growing belief that it remains a possibility.

You have to wonder just how bad it is for Hamas to be looking towards Israel for help. Still, a lot of people think that Hamas can handle the threats from ISIS.

“I don’t think [ISIS or its affiliates] are a threat that Hamas cannot handle,” Yoram Schweitzer, Institute for National Security Studies said. “Hamas is brutal enough and determined enough to meet that challenge.”

And if Hamas is fighting off ISIS, then they aren’t firing rockets into Israel or making a nuisance of themselves. For Israel, this is a classic case of hoping that both sides lose, and probably doing everything they can to wreck both sides. It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of vermin.

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