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December 5, 2018
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Turkey
Sides with Hamas on U.N. Resolution Condemning Rocket Attacks
by John Rossomando • Dec 5, 2018
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NATO ally Turkey plans to oppose an American-sponsored
draft resolution at the United Nations condemning Hamas, Palestinian
Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian terror factions. A vote on the resolution is scheduled for Thursday.
It specifically
condemns "Hamas for repeatedly firing rockets into Israel and for
inciting violence, thereby putting civilians at risk." It also demands
that Palestinian terror factions stop
using "airborne incendiary devices" against Israel.
Turkey will vote against the resolution, Iran's Mehr News Agency reported Tuesday. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt
Çavuşoğlu promised Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh that Turkey would do
everything it could to stop its passage. Haniyeh lobbied the Turks to help Hamas thwart the American
effort. Hamas called the resolution "aggression against the rights of
the Palestinian cause" in a communiqué posted on its website and
claimed it was an assault on "the right of the Palestinian people to
defend themselves."
Çavuşoğlu vowed that his country would "remain alongside the
right of Palestine and Palestinians, and that its position is constant on
the Palestinian Cause."
Turkey has become a key Hamas ally and protector. Çavuşoğlu condemned January's U.S. decision to classify Haniyeh
as a specially designated global terrorist, and Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared last May that Hamas was not a terrorist
organization.
Turkey gives military assistance to Hamas through a private military
company called SADAT
International Defense Consulting run by a top Erdogan military adviser,
Israel's Shin Bet disclosed earlier this year.
Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar visited Turkey last week to meet with Hamas members
living in Istanbul. Al-Zahar toured the region seeking support for the Palestinian Legislative Council
(PLC), the Palestinian Authority parliament. Hamas won a majority of its
seats in 2006, but PA President Mahmoud Abbas effectively shut down the PLC in 2007.
Despite an intense struggle for power, the PA and Abbas' Fatah faction
also have condemned the U.N. resolution critical of Hamas, saying
it would hurt all Palestinian factions.
"Hamas is part of the Palestinian people, and we won't accept any
attempt to add it to the list of terror groups," said Azzam al-Ahmed, a senior Fatah official.
The resolution is unlikely to pass due to the wide support the
Palestinian cause enjoys among non-aligned nations in the Third World. The
U.N. passed six anti-Israel resolutions last Friday alone,
including two denying Jewish roots in Israel. Condemning people who
intentionally fire rockets at civilians somehow is a more difficult act.
Related Topics: John
Rossomando, Hamas,
Turkey,
United
Nations, Gaza
rockets, Mevlüt
Çavuşoğlu, Ismail
Haniyeh, Palestinian
Authority, Mahmoud
Abbas, Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, Azzam
al-Ahmed
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