Hamas Has Problems With Agreements: First Fatah, Now Egypt

Hamas seems to have difficulty playing nicely with others.

Hamas already started calling Fatah names

A senior leader of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, lambasted the Fatah movement for pursuing the failed experiences of the past which created a wide gap among the different Palestinian groups.


"The Fatah movement has opted for deception and intrigues after signing the national reconciliation agreement and seeks to bypass the Constitution," Younus al-Astal told FNA on Sunday.

And now Hamas is not playing ball with Egypt:

Days after Egypt, with great fanfare, opened its border permanently with Gaza, new restrictions have been imposed on Palestinians who want to cross, and the area’s Hamas rulers spoke on Wednesday with frustration and anger.

Only three buses, carrying a total of 150 passengers, entered the Egyptian hall at the Rafah crossing point on Wednesday, while five others remained stuck on the Palestinian side, Hamas officials said two hours before closing.

Egypt, for its part, claims that Hamas has been cheating:

Maan, a Palestinian news agency, quoted an Egyptian security official as saying that Hamas was sending in ineligible people, including some involved in illegal smuggling through tunnels beneath Gaza’s southern borders with Sinai.

Hamas has thrown a tantrum, threatening to close the Rafah border in retaliation.

I'm not sure why people would expect anything different.
Hamas is a terrorist group that with the help of a bloody coup tossed Fatah out of Gaza. Also, Hamas--the democratically elected government of Gaza--has somehow let the due date for elections slip by--a fact that the media ignores. Meanwhile, with the open border with Egypt, Hamas will now have an easier time to bring in the rockets and mortars that it fires at Israeli civilian targets.

The fact that Hamas has turned against Fatah and has started accusing them of all sorts of things is not surprising. The fact that Hamas has tried to get smugglers into Egypt--and who knows who else--should not be surprising either.
The fact that Europe continues to support Hamas should be surprising.
But it isnn't, is it.

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