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* Amir Taheri: Is Global South Going South?


** A Deal That Keeps Hamas In Power Is Meaningless ([link removed])
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by Khaled Abu Toameh • January 19, 2025 at 5:00 am
* The ceasefire-hostage deal does not require Hamas to disarm or cede control over the Gaza Strip.... The terrorist group seems to be convinced that the deal will enable it to keep control of the Gaza Strip and prepare for more massacres of Jews.
* Shortly after the ceasefire-hostage deal was announced on January 15, Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya made it clear that his group intends to pursue its Jihad against Israel.
* The new US administration, to avoid more violence and bloodshed, must insist that Hamas be removed from power.
* This can only be accomplished by applying pressure and sanctions on Hamas's Qatari and and Iranian sponsors.

The ceasefire-hostage deal does not require Hamas to disarm or cede control over the Gaza Strip. The terrorist group seems to be convinced that the deal will enable it to keep control of the Gaza Strip and prepare for more massacres of Jews. Pictured: A terrorist flashes a "V for victory" sign to celebrate the ceasefire agreement, near Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 19, 2025. (Photo by Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images)

Those who think that the Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas will abandon its Jihad (holy war) to murder more Jews and destroy Israel in the aftermath of the recent ceasefire-hostage agreement are mistaken.

Although the agreement may put an end to the current conflict between Israel and Hamas, it does not, in any way, reflect a shift in the radical and dangerous ideology of the Islamist group, as outlined in its 1988 Covenant. The document quotes Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood organization (of which Hamas is an offshoot), as saying: "Israel will arise and continue to exist until Islam abolishes it, as it abolished what went before."

The main points of the Hamas Covenant state:

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** Is Global South Going South? ([link removed])
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by Amir Taheri • January 19, 2025 at 4:00 am
* In Iran itself, even figures within the "southern" system are beginning to realize that their regime may be heading south.
* In what is labeled "the Greater Middle East", another shibboleth that is best avoided, there is an overwhelming desire for social reform, economic development and political participation, in other words for heading "north" rather than "south."
* A new generation of leaders has understood that unless they turn change into an ally, they risk turning it into a mortal foe.

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Always anxious to portray the Islamic Republic of Iran in a world leadership position, the official media in Tehran have been trumpeting a three-day visit by President Masoud Pezeshkian to Dushanbe and Moscow as a "significant strengthening of the global south."

You might wonder what the "global south" is all about.

This is a cliché invented in the 1970s to distinguish "Third World" countries from the two blocs of East and West, without abandoning its sister cliché of "non-aligned world."

With globalism in decline if not actually moribund yet, the "global south" is gaining new adepts in circles seeking to divide humanity on ideological grounds, with Western democracies cast as villains as authoritarian regimes as choirboys.

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