Thursday July 6, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

Khaled Mashal.
He is the brains behind Hamas.
He is the head of the Hamas political wing.
He is the man who orchestrated the missile attacks against Israel and the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier.

He used to be headquartered in Damascus.
Word is, Khaled Mashal left for Algeria on Sunday.

Syrian President Bahsar Assad was none too pleased last week having his presidential palace buzzed by the Israeli Air Force. Low flying planes breaking the sound barrier are freakishly frightening and tend to break the good china.
Assad called Meshal in for a tete a tete and told the Hamas leader that he does not enjoy being threatened by Israel's Air Force.
Assad told Meshal that he should give up the Israeli soldier.

Mashal got the point.
So as not to draw the rage of Syria, the country that had just increased his security detail, he left. It was also made clear that Israel was looking for Meshal.

Mashal's leadership is causing real tension with the rest Arab leadership.
They believe that the matter of the soldier should be put to rest.
Mashal disagrees and he is the man in charge, the one calling the shots.
Mashal is now totally out of touch, with the situation, with the Palestinians, with reality.