Meet the Hamas terrorist billionaires who live lives of luxury while profiting off misery

Top Hamas leaders are living the high life in luxury hotels and marble-clad mansions while ordinary Gazans suffer, the Israeli Government has claimed. The highest-ranking terror groups are said to enjoy a net worth of more than three billion dollars each.

Meanwhile, international attention is increasingly focused on the humanitarian plight of Gazans trapped in the "world's largest open-air prison". Meanwhile, everyday life in the Gaza Strip is a struggle for the enclave's 2.3 million inhabitants with half reliant on US food handouts.

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Senior Hamas leaders Abu Marzouk, Khaled Mashal and Ismail Haniyeh have all been accused of hoarding their own personal wealth at the expense of hard-pressed Gazans. Haniyeh is believed to be the richest of the bunch with the German tabloid Bild reporting that the 61-year-old Tehran often flys between Istanbul, Moscow and Cairo on his private jet.

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Mousa Abu Marzouk, 72, serves as Hamas' second-in-command and holds a foreign minister-like role. He has lived in the US, Jordan, Syria, and Cairo since his 1995 arrest for terrorism-related activities. Reports suggest his wealth ranges from $2 billion to $3 billion.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/meet-the-hamas-terrorist-billionaires-who-live-lives-of-luxury-while-profiting-off-misery/ar-AA1jwAbE

How Israel is "colonizing" Arab Land

The War on the West

The election that led to Hamas taking over Gaza

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The core part of this talking point lies in what happened close to two decades ago. In 2006, the Palestinian political entity operating in the West Bank and Gaza staged elections. Little did observers know that it would be the last vote allowed by the Palestinian Authority, led then, as it is now, by President Mahmoud Abbas. The vote took place in the aftermath of a turbulent series of events: the fiery years of the second intifada, the death of longtime Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and the 2005 Israeli withdrawal of troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip.

The election yielded a shock victory for Hamas, which won the most seats with some 44 percent of the vote. Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, which advocates for rapprochement and peace between Israelis and Palestinians, recently observed that in no single district in Gaza did Hamas win a majority of votes. At present, children make up roughly half of Gaza’s population, meaning only a fraction of the territory’s current population ever cast a ballot for Hamas.

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Mostly, they were voting for opposition and voting against Fatah — against corruption, against nepotism, against the failure of the peace process, and against the lack of leadership,” Mustafa Barghouti, an outspoken, independent Palestinian politician then and now, told CNN at the time.

That analysis was echoed by a conspicuous onlooker. President George W. Bush had pushed for Palestinian elections, in part as an outgrowth of his administration’s ideological zeal for spreading democracy in the Middle East through whatever means necessary. As Hamas’s victory became clear, Bush said the vote reflected Palestinians’ disenchantment with their prevailing leadership, who had been elected a decade prior in the wake of the signing of the Oslo accords.


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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-election-that-led-to-hamas-taking-over-gaza/ar-AA1iJtjG

Senior Hamas official: 'Tunnels are for us, the UN can take care of Palestinian citizens'

Mousa Abu Marzouk, a senior member of the Hamas political bureau, said in an interview with the RT network in Arabic that the tunnels built in Gaza were meant to protect Hamas - and not the residents of the Strip. "It is the responsibility of the UN to protect them," he said.

"Everyone knows that 75% of the residents of the Gaza Strip are refugees - and that it is the responsibility of the United Nations to protect them. The responsibility of the occupation (Israel) to provide them with all services as long as they are under occupation - in accordance with the Geneva Convention," according to Marzouk.

On Monday, Abu Marzouk said in an interview with Al-Jazeera that "the Palestinian Authority and several Arab countries are secretly calling on the West to eliminate Hamas." According to him, "We expected a lot from Hezbollah and our brothers in the West Bank, but we are amazed by the shameful position of our brothers in the Palestinian Authority."

Mousa Abu Marzouk headed the Hamas delegation that visited Moscow last week. The Russian news agency TASS reported that "contacts were held with him in continuation of the Russian line on the immediate release of foreign hostages in the Gaza Strip, (the sides) also discussed issues related to ensuring the evacuation of Russian and other foreign citizens from the territory of the Palestinian enclave."

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bk00giq0fa

Brutality of Hamas attack seen at Israel morgue - CNN. Warning graphic

How tiny Qatar hosts the leaders of Hamas without consequences

On October 7, as Hamas gunmen rampaged across southern Israel, a group of middle-aged men in a luxury suite in Doha, Qatar gathered in front of a camera.

Hamas leaders, led by Ismail Haniyeh, recorded themselves showing surprise about the attacks from the news on a large-screen television, and then kneeling to give thanks to Allah for the success of the operation.

This episode served as a reminder that while innocent civilians in Gaza die in their hundreds from aerial bombing and tens of thousands more are rendered homeless, Hamas's leaders exist above the fray in air-conditioned comfort 2,000 kilometres away as guests of Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/qatar-hamas-israel-1.6999416

The Disgrace of the United Nations on Israel - WSJ Editorial

In the ever-expanding hall of shame for propagators of global disorder, prepare a special pedestal for United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. His disgraceful remarks Tuesday to the Security Council are an example of why the U.N. can’t be counted on to keep the peace anywhere.

Mr. Guterres’s comments amount to nothing less than an apologia for Hamas terrorists, despite a few thin caveats. “It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum,” he said of the Iran-backed terror group’s Oct. 7 invasion of southern Israel, which claimed more than 1,400 lives.

Lest anyone miss his point: “The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced and their homes demolished.” Although he allowed that these “grievances” don’t justify the “appalling attacks by Hamas,” he warned that “those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.” We quote Mr. Guterres at length in case readers assume someone in his position couldn’t really have delivered a speech of this sort. He did.

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This false equivalence elevates Mr. Guterres’s comments to the destructive from merely foolish. His message to the world’s rogues is that if you go on a killing spree, the U.N. will help justify your depredations. Will Mr. Guterres concoct some excuse if Beijing invades Taiwan—or Philippine territory? This is how the U.N. makes itself a fellow traveler in the advancing march of global disorder.

https://archive.ph/bY9He

For anyone still talking about "both sides" in Israel

listen to Biden’s speech. Listen carefully to each word, watch his facial expression. It is only 10 min and it will find it’s honorable place among historical speeches

No! There are not two sides: Not when terrorists enter rooms full of people and, yes

terrorize them and killing them one by one and then taking babies and elderly in wheelchairs hostage.

Israel has never done this! On the Israel/Palestinian page we are forbidden from using the term terrorist but what they did in these rooms ware acts of terror.

Yes, individual civilians were killed in Israel. They were in a middle of war and, yes, ended as collateral damage. This happens in wars.

How can people here compare these horrible reports to anything really boggles my mind.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/emergency-group-says-260-were-slain-by-terrorists-at-rave-as-families-seek-answers/


Some 260 people were mowed down by Hamas gunmen who invaded an outdoor music festival in southern Israel during their deadly assault on the country over the weekend, an emergency group said Sunday