In a first response to the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, Hamas on Monday welcomed the move as a “victory” and congratulated the Afghan people for “defeating” the US.
“We congratulate the Muslim Afghan people for the defeat of the American occupation on all Afghan lands, and we congratulate the Taliban movement and its brave leadership on this victory, which came as the culmination of its long struggle over the past 20 years,” Hamas said in a statement.
“While Hamas wishes the Afghan Muslim people and its leadership success in achieving unity, stability and prosperity for Afghanistan and its people, it stresses that the demise of the American occupation and its allies proves that the resistance of the peoples, foremost of which is our struggling Palestinian people, will achieve victory.”
In a post on Twitter on Sunday night, Musa Abu Marzouk, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, wrote: “Today Taliban is victorious after it used to be accused of backwardness and terrorism. Now, the Taliban is more clever and more realistic. It has faced America and its agents, refusing half-solutions with them. The Taliban was not deceived by the slogans of democracy and elections and fake promises. This is a lesson for all oppressed people.”
Recently, Hamas released photos of a meeting between its leader, Ismail Haniyeh, and a delegation from the Taliban. The meeting reportedly took place in the Taliban office in Doha, Qatar, where Haniyeh has been based for the past two years.
According to a Palestinian journalist in the Gaza Strip, the Afghan delegation “congratulated” the Hamas leader on his group’s “victory” in the 11-day war with Israel last May.
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The journalist said he expected increased cooperation between Hamas and Taliban after the “liberation” of Afghanistan. “The victory of Taliban emboldens the Palestinian resistance groups, including Hamas,” he said. “This shows that the US and its allies can be defeated despite their military capabilities.”
Several Palestinians took to social media to celebrate what they described as the US “defeat” in Afghanistan. Some posted comments and photos congratulating “the heroes of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan” on the “liberation” of the capital, Kabul.
PLO Executive Committee member Ahmed Majdalani, on the other hand, scoffed at those who are celebrating the Taliban’s “victory.”
Majdalani said that all those who are rejoicing over the “victory of the resistance over American Imperialism need to be reminded that the Taliban entered Kabul without facing resistance from the Afghan army in accordance with the Doha agreement that was signed with the Taliban last year regarding the withdrawal of the US forces from Afghanistan.”
Majdalani denounced the Taliban as a “dark and brutal force that produced ISIS and al-Qaeda and all forms of extremism and terrorism.” He said that the Arabs and Muslims were the first to pay the price for this extremism and terrorism.”
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afghanistan will go right back to being a terrorist training center like before 9-11-01 and i would bet money
that there will be a terrorist attack on the 20 year annev. of that day.
god bless america and please lord remove the usurper from the white house and put the legitimate president back in office.
AND IF we have to ever go back in, WE SHOULD JUST GLASS the entire bloody nation. HELL< WE SHOULD have done that right after 9/11.
Hamas Congratulates Taliban For ‘Defeating’ U.S..
Didn’t this corrupt puppet president give Hamas $$$.
* US President Joe Biden’s administration plans to provide $235m (£171m) of aid to Palestinians.
* U.S. officials acknowledged coming American aid for Palestinians could rehabilitate Hamas after several weeks of fighting with Israeli.
The corrupt, traitorous, puppet president Biden
and his Muslim handlers should be proud of this…….. NOT!
Oh wait… This was the traitorous Democrat Party’s intensions, to degrade and humiliate the U.S.A..
humiliate
** make (someone) feel ashamed and foolish by injuring their dignity and self-respect, especially publicly.
The corrupt, puppet president Biden and his handlers made all of the lives lost, lives destroyed and tax money spent during this war,
all for Nothing, a waste, a political scam. Plus puppet Biden armed the Taliban.
HELL Yes he gave them OUR HARD EARNED Dollars.. The traitor.
If we could totally decimate that entire region and wipe it off the Earth, it would be a much better place. Those people are barbarians through and through—they are military vampires with an insatiable taste for blood and constant chaos is all they want despite their talk of “peace”.
More and more, that’s the way I am leaning to.. JUST GLASS over the entire region.. AND BE DONE WITH them, once and for all.
Hamas, Taliban, Al-Queada, China, Russia, you name it, my grandma, any third world backwoods rock slinger could defeat this weak miserable so-called world power. Thank you democunts for our shameful standing in the world. Tooo bad we looked on while the idiots stole our country right out from under our noses, and now?, we whine about being last in the world?
ITS NOT just the Govt to blame for all of this, but SOCIETY AS a whole, for PUSHING the govt, to make our military SO BLOODY WEAK!
Hamas, you have nothing to worry about, Joe Biden will keep supporting you with our taxpayer money. So in other words, Joe is a terrorist supporter.
My favorite quote: “The less they see of the US the more they like the US.” They don’t want our politics or philosophies or woke stuff. And over the years, decades, wait centuries, it has proven the same.
This is a great opportunity to help those that no longer like our country like BLM, LGBTQ community, Woke peoples and such to get a free ride to Afghanistan and live in a country that they can make better than the USA.
I’ll chip in for a couple of one way tickets.
I’d love to take EVERYONE IN Antifa, BLM and the rest, and SEND THEM ALL TO Afgan, and LEAVE THEM THERE FOR GOOD!