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Hamas to Hezbullah: Let's kill Jews together

Sunni Hamas is urging Shia Hezbullah to give up its support for embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and come together to murder Jews instead.

"We call on Hezbollah to take its forces out of Syria and to keep their weapons directed against the Zionist enemy," Moussa Abu Marzouk, a Cairo-based Hamas leader, said on his Facebook page.

The call marked a further deterioration in relations between Hamas and Hezbollah, two long-time allies who have each fought against Israel and advocate its destruction.

Abu Marzouk said Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah's involvement in Syria, where Assad, a member of the Shi'ite-rooted Alawite sect, is fighting mainly Sunni rebels, had stoked sectarian conflict.

Hamas has denied some Lebanese media reports that its fighters were present in Syria to train rebels in weaponry, bomb-making and tunnel digging.

On Friday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah promised his group would keep fighting alongside Assad's forces after it spearheaded the recapture of the strategic town of Qusair.

Hamas's leaders in exile were once based in Damascus but left, mainly for Egypt and Qatar, in 2012 as the civil war escalated.   

 Kill the Jews now, and then we can kill each other later. What could go wrong?

Labels: Bashar al-Assad, Free Syrian Army, Hamas, Hezbullah, Nusra Front, Shiites v. Sunnis, Syria, Syrian uprising

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:02 PM