05.05.2011                      01.Ijar, 5771                      Rosch Hodesch 2; Tag 16 des Omer

Analyse:

For Hamas, unity is just a tactic to survive

Mashaal made a calculated tactical decision to try and ensure his political survival by approving the reconciliation deal.

At the beginning of the year, Hamas and Fatah were close to signing a reconciliation agreement brokered by Egypt. At the last minute, however, Khaled Mashaal, leader of Hamas’s political wing, which is based in Damascus, nixed the deal.
But then the ground shook in Syria and he suddenly changed his mind. As the fate of his patron, Syrian President Bashar Assad, hung in the balance, Mashaal made a calculated tactical decision to try and ensure his political survival by approving the reconciliation deal, which just months earlier he had conspicuously rejected…..