By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
Al Jazeera reported today that Hamas politburo chief Halad Mashaal avoided a meeting with Syrian president Bashar Assad.
This is the second time in the past two weeks that Mashaal has skirted a meeting with Assad.
Despite the fact that for years Assad protected and sponsored Hamas, Mashaal does not want to now be seen as supporting Assad.
Iran is livid and so is Assad. Iran believes that given all the money they have dumped into Hamas they should at least be loyal to Assad. But no.
Hamas has had to relocate their headquarters and they are no longer in Damascus. Now Hamas has a major office, just opened in Qatar, and a smaller one in Amman, Jordan.
Iran thinks that Mashaal and Hamas have shown their true colors.
Hamas representatives have visited Iran several times over the past few weeks to plead the Palestinian cause - but their words have fallen on deaf ears.
That brings us back to Mashaal missing a meeting with Assad. Mashaal need to steer clear of Assad, but his benefactors want him close. Mashaal is in a very difficult position.
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