The strong support he received from Iran over the weekend may have given a boost of morale to Hamas Authority prime minister Ismail Haniyeh - but it cost him in other spheres. The Islamic Brotherhood in Saudi Arabia has passed the message on that it wants Hamas to break off its increasingly close ties with Iran. So reports Maariv's NRG news website.
Egypt, too, has had criticism of Hamas of late for not agreeing to release captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. The more moderate Jordan and United Arab Emirates have also taken anti-Hamas stances in private forums.
Though Iran has supplied the nearly-bankrupt Hamas with $120 million, this sum is not enough, and tens of thousands of government employees continue to remain unpaid. Saudi Arabia is also a major benefactor of the Palestinian Authority, sending tens of millions of dollars yearly for civilian Hamas causes.
"If you don't cut off ties with Iran and the Shiites," a Saudi element recently told a leading Hamas figure by phone, NRG reports, "we will stop sending you money."
Don't Let Him Back!
Within Israel, at least one group has called upon the government not to allow Haniyeh to return to Gaza.
The Almagor Terror Victims Association has asked the diplomatic mini-cabinet to instruct the IDF not to allow Haniye to return to Gaza following his statements over the weekend that his government would never recognize Israel. Speaking at Tehran University, Haniye said, "The world's arrogant country [the U.S.] and the Zionists want us to accept the robbery of Palestinian lands, to stop the Jihad and resistance, and to accept the agreements that were signed with the Zionist enemy in the past. We will never recognize the robbing Zionist government, and we will continue until we liberate Jerusalem."
"No one must be allowed to join up with the Ayatollahs in Iran who openly call for our destruction," the Almagor organization states, "and then be able to return [to Gaza] to encourage the terrorism swamp growing alongside our southern cities."
PA chairman Abu Mazen of Fatah has threatened again to call new elections, in light of the failure of talks for a unity government with Hamas. However, he has not set a date, and the threat - which he may not have the legal or practical authority to carry out - is not being taken very seriously.
Despite the tensions between Hamas and Fatah, Fatah handed over a training camp in Gaza City to Hamas over the weekend. The decision to do so was made a number of weeks ago, Arutz-7's Haggai Huberman reports, after the IDF destroyed a Hamas training camp not far from there. Five hundred Hamas policemen took up positions in the new camp on Saturday.
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, addressing the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council in Riyadh over the weekend, said that the Arab world is on the brink of explosion. "The most dangerous thing is the internal rift between the Palestinian brothers," he said, referring to the in-fighting between Hamas and Fatah. He also noted the fact that "brothers in Iraq are slaughtering each other," as well as the dangerous situation in Lebanon where Hizbullah is threatening to overturn the government.
Egypt, too, has had criticism of Hamas of late for not agreeing to release captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. The more moderate Jordan and United Arab Emirates have also taken anti-Hamas stances in private forums.
Though Iran has supplied the nearly-bankrupt Hamas with $120 million, this sum is not enough, and tens of thousands of government employees continue to remain unpaid. Saudi Arabia is also a major benefactor of the Palestinian Authority, sending tens of millions of dollars yearly for civilian Hamas causes.
"If you don't cut off ties with Iran and the Shiites," a Saudi element recently told a leading Hamas figure by phone, NRG reports, "we will stop sending you money."
Don't Let Him Back!
Within Israel, at least one group has called upon the government not to allow Haniyeh to return to Gaza.
The Almagor Terror Victims Association has asked the diplomatic mini-cabinet to instruct the IDF not to allow Haniye to return to Gaza following his statements over the weekend that his government would never recognize Israel. Speaking at Tehran University, Haniye said, "The world's arrogant country [the U.S.] and the Zionists want us to accept the robbery of Palestinian lands, to stop the Jihad and resistance, and to accept the agreements that were signed with the Zionist enemy in the past. We will never recognize the robbing Zionist government, and we will continue until we liberate Jerusalem."
"No one must be allowed to join up with the Ayatollahs in Iran who openly call for our destruction," the Almagor organization states, "and then be able to return [to Gaza] to encourage the terrorism swamp growing alongside our southern cities."
PA chairman Abu Mazen of Fatah has threatened again to call new elections, in light of the failure of talks for a unity government with Hamas. However, he has not set a date, and the threat - which he may not have the legal or practical authority to carry out - is not being taken very seriously.
Despite the tensions between Hamas and Fatah, Fatah handed over a training camp in Gaza City to Hamas over the weekend. The decision to do so was made a number of weeks ago, Arutz-7's Haggai Huberman reports, after the IDF destroyed a Hamas training camp not far from there. Five hundred Hamas policemen took up positions in the new camp on Saturday.
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, addressing the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council in Riyadh over the weekend, said that the Arab world is on the brink of explosion. "The most dangerous thing is the internal rift between the Palestinian brothers," he said, referring to the in-fighting between Hamas and Fatah. He also noted the fact that "brothers in Iraq are slaughtering each other," as well as the dangerous situation in Lebanon where Hizbullah is threatening to overturn the government.