American Conservatives’ Pro-hizbullah and Pro-hamas Rant

  On the American Conservative, I read a pro-Hamas and pro-Hezbollah article by Anders Strindberg. Though it appeared in the American Conservative, it repeats the same leftist claims. This article tries to make Al Quada seem like enemies to Hamas and Hezbollah, when a serious look will show that they’re actually allies. 

The summary of the article is that “The U.S.-Israeli fixation on Hezbollah and Hamas undermines our pursuit of al-Qaeda.”

Actually, a common misconception is that only Al Quada is the problem. But in reality, it’s the radical Islamist ideology. It’s that ideology that got the 9/11 hijackers to hijack airplanes and fly them into buildings and that ideology that makes a suicide bomber strap a bomb on himself [though rarely herself] and blow himself [though rarely herself] up in a cafe, killing innocent men, women and children. All of the Islamist terrorism heard in the news, from Palestinian suicide bombings, to 9/11 and 7/7 is driven by that same backward interpretation of Islam. The article starts off as saying:

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For the past several years, the primary bulwarks against the spread of al-Qaeda’s brand of Salafi Islamism into Lebanon and the Palestinian territories have been Hezbollah and Hamas, respectively. While it may not fit well with the black-and-white worldview that provides the backdrop for the war against terrorism, the fact is that these two movements have been far more successful at limiting the influence of Salafism within their respective jurisdictions than any of the regional friends and allies of the United States.

Actually, there are documented cases where Hezbollah and Iran cooperated with Al Quada. The 9/11 commission report doesn’t see it that way. For Hezbollah was founded in 1982 by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Hezbollah is a proxy of Iran.

Let’s see what the 9/11 commission report stated:

Al Qaeda had begun developing the tactical expertise for such attacks months 
earlier,when some of its operatives—top military committee members and sev 
eral operatives who were involved with the Kenya cell among them—were sent 
to Hezbollah training camps in Lebanon. [page 68]

I showed what the 9/11 commission report said about Iranian and Hezbollah cooperation and support for Al Quada. The AJC [American Jewish Committee] stated:

Sayf Al-Adil currently serves as Al-Qa`ida’s “military leader” for 
the remnants of Al-Qa`ida that still maintain a presence in the 
Afghanistan-Pakistan border area. He was trained by Hizballah and is 
believed to be the nexus between Al-Qa`ida and Hizballah. [page 2]

The AJC also stated:

In the early 1990s, Hizballah’s Foreign Operations 

Department chief, `Imad Mughniyah, was reported to have been in 
contact and cooperated with `Usama bin Ladin. Mughniyah is con- 
sidered responsible for the Hizballah suicide bombing attacks against 
U.S. diplomats and peacekeeping forces in Beirut, Lebanon, includ- 
ing the April 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy and the September 
1984 bombing of the U.S. Embassy Annex, as well as the October 
1984 suicide bombing against U.S. peacekeeping forces stationed at 

 the U.S. Marine Barracks. [page 8]

As for Hamas, it also cooperated with and supports Al Qaeda. JCPA [Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs] also reports that:

Furthermore, since Israel’s disengagement from Gaza in August 2005, Hamas has openly welcomed a host of Islamist terror groups, including organizations that openly identify themselves as al-Qaeda affiliates.

Another article on JCPA also stated that:

On March 2, 2006, PA Chairman Abbas told Al-Hayat (UK) that he had received intelligence information indicating the presence of Al-Qaeda operatives in the West Bank and Gaza,22 just two days after Israel publicized the arrest of two Al-Qaeda operatives in Nablus. Azzam Abu al-Ads and Bilal Hafnawy were indicted for recruiting operatives to carry out terror attacks for Al-Qaeda and planning a combined terror attack in Jerusalem with a suicide bomber and a car bomb. Members of the gang who were recruited byAl-Qaeda’s infrastructure in Irbid, Jordan, were arrested by Israeli security forces at the Allenby Bridge on December 10, 2005, when returning from Jordan.23
However, on March 15, 2006, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal called Abbas’ warning about an Al-Qaedainfrastructure in the PA “unfortunate,” adding that “we don’t understand the logic behind these statements.” He emphasized that “Al-Qaeda has no presence on Palestinian soil.”24 Yet on April 4, 2006, Al-Hayat reported “a definite presence” of Al-Qaeda operatives in the Gaza Strip who had just infiltrated from several Arab countries including Egypt, Sudan, and Yemen.
It has been known for some time that Al-Qaeda operatives are present in the Palestinian Authority. In August 2000, Israel’s security service uncovered a terror network linked to Al-Qaeda and headed by Nabil Okal, a Hamas operative from Gaza, who underwent military training in camps of the terrorist chieftain Osama bin Laden in Pakistan and Afghanistan during 1997-1998.25 In July 2005, Al-Qaedagangs fired Kassam rockets at the Israeli town of Neve Dekalim in Gush Katif and also disseminated a video documenting its activities.26 On October 7, 2005, the Palestinian news agency Ma’an published a declaration circulated in Khan Yunis in which Al-Qaeda announced the establishment of a branch inGaza. The declaration, signed with the name “Qaedat Aljihad in Palestine,” states that the organization’s main goals are: implementing Islamic law (Sharia), setting up a Sharia state, reviving the idea of the caliphate in the hearts of the Muslims, and working to create a worldwide Islamic caliphate.27
More recently on March 26, 2006, a senior Hamas figure, Muhammad Sayyam, met in Peshawar, Pakistan, with Sayyid Salah al-Din, leader of the Kashmiri terror organization Hezb ul-Mujahidin,28 which had training camps in Afghanistan until the Taliban’s fall from power and functioned as an Al-Qaedaaffiliate.29 Sayyam heads the Yemeni branch of the Palestine Scholars Association, which advocates uncompromising jihad against the infidels and legally sanctioned suicide bombings against civilians in Israel. He sees the role of Muslim religious sages as spiritual guides whose task is to motivate the masses to struggle against Islam’s enemies and attack them with suicide bombings.30
Saudi Islamist cleric Sheikh Dr. Nasser Al-’Omar hosted a reception for a Hamas delegation led by Khaled Mashaal in Riyadh on March 12, 2006, also attended by prominent clerics and Islamists, some of whom had served prison terms for their suspected support of Al-Qaeda or for criticizing the Saudi government.31
In honor of a visit to Yemen by Khaled Mashaal on March 20, 2006, the Hamas office in Yemen organized a conference to recruit financial aid for the Hamas movement and the new Hamasgovernment. Sheikh Abd al-Majid al-Zindani also took part in the conference, meeting with Mashaal, calling on participants to assist the Hamas regime, and setting a personal example by contributing 200,000 rials.32 Zindani stressed that “the support we can provide at present is money (emphasis added),” hinting at other forms of support for Hamas in the future.
On February 24, 2004, U.S. authorities had designated al-Zindani as a terror supporter, “loyal to Osama bin Laden and a supporter of the Al-Qaeda organization.” The U.S. Treasury Department stated: “The U.S. has credible evidence that al-Zindani, a Yemeni national, supports designated terrorists and terrorist organizations” and “has a long history of working with bin Laden, notably serving as one of his spiritual leaders.” The statement said al-Zindani “support[ed] many terrorist causes, including actively recruiting for Al-Qaeda training camps,” and in 2004 “played a key role in the purchase of weapons on behalf of Al-Qaeda and other terrorists.”33
Relations between Al-Qaeda and Hamas go back to the early 1990s. In April 1991, Sudanese leader Hasan Turabi hosted a “Popular Arab and Islamic Conference” in Khartoum that brought together for the first time Islamists from the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. In addition to Hamas, Osama bin Laden also attended and in subsequent years turned Sudan into his main base of operations. Turabi continued to host this jihadist gathering in 1993 and 1995; Hamas training camps in Sudan existed alongside those of Al-Qaeda. Their solidarity could be inferred from bin Laden’s explicit reference toHamas founder Sheikh Ahmad Yassin as one of the five ulema on which bin Laden based his August 1996 Declaration of Jihad Against the U.S.34
As noted in the case of al-Zindani, Al-Qaeda and Hamas have long shared global funding mechanisms. On October 22, 2003, Richard A. Clarke, the former National Counterterrorism Coordinator on the U.S. National Security Council, acknowledged that Hamas and Al-Qaeda had a common financial infrastructure: “the funding mechanisms for PIJ [Palestinian Islamic Jihad] and Hamas appear also to have been funding Al-Qaeda.”35
Even though Hamas and Al-Qaeda share a similar worldview that seeks to impose worldwide Islamic rule, recently disagreements have erupted between the two organizations over how to implement the Islamic revolution. In a taped missive on March 5, 2006, Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden’s deputy, called on Hamas to continue its armed struggle and reject agreements signed between Israel and thePalestinian Authority. Al-Zawahiri emphasized that “no Palestinian has the right to give up even a grain of Palestinian land,” and warned Hamas against “the new American game that is called a political process,” alluding to democratization. Khaled Mashaal responded by saying that Hamas did not need advice from Al-Qaeda, and will continue to act in keeping with its worldview and the Palestinian interest.36
Mashaal’s reaction indicates a difference between Hamas‘ agenda and Al-Qaeda’s. Al-Qaeda totally rejects any element of Western influence and sees terror as the most effective means to overthrow the infidel regimes, spread Islam, and establish Islamic rule. Hamas, however, is prepared to make a pretense of going along with the Western democratic rules of the game and thereby exploit them to remove the infidel regimes, propagate Islam, and install Islamic rule that will eliminate democracy. Yet, in substance, Hamas has not rejected the heart of al-Zawahiri’s advice: it still refuses to give up armed struggle or recognize past Israeli-Palestinian agreements, and it steadfastly refuses to state that it is prepared to make peace with Israel. In other words, Hamas is prepared to adopt a pragmatic tactic that does not violate its basic principles as a means of realizing its ultimate long-term goals, which are no different from Al-Qaeda’s.

As this article shows, Hamas and Hezbollah hate America and its allies including Israel far more than they hate Al Qaeda.  Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda have similar goals. All three of those terrorist groups seek to impose their backward fascist interpretation of Islam on the world, through another caliphate from each other. Yet Anders from the American Conservative wants us to believe that Hamas and Hezbollah fight Al Qaeda. He also claims that America is no enemy of Hamas and Hezbollah and that those two organizations are motivated by land, not religious fanaticism. The article also says that:

While Hezbollah/Hamas and al-Qaeda and its affiliates are engaged in what they see as a resistance project, they are not engaged in the same resistance project. The struggles of the former two are territorial, directed against a specific enemy—Israel—and rooted in the needs and aspirations of specific peoples. Through modern institutions these movements aim to empower their constituents, to whom they also stand directly accountable in democratic elections as well as in terms of a more general approval of their actions. Importantly, they form part of, and co-operate within, a pluralistic spectrum of ideologies and creeds within their respective arenas. While it may not sit well with the U.S. public discourse, neither Hezbollah nor Hamas are enemies of the U.S. other than by inferred extension of their enmity with Israel.

Wrong! Hezbollah killed the most Americans other than Al Qaeda. Yet the author mention the 1983 attacks carried out by Hezbollah. He says that:

When the U.S. put forces in Lebanon in the early 1980s, the loose conglomerate of nascent cells that would later coalesce into Hezbollah struck with lethal force. In two attacks, against the U.S. embassy and the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, over 300 American service personnel were killed. Atrocious as these attacks were, it is important to understand that the Hezbollah of today bears no resemblance—politically, organizationally, or operationally—to the cells that carried out the 1983 attacks.

So in other words, it was “nascent cells that would later coalesce into Hezbollah.” Actually, no. These “nascent cells that would later coalesce into Hezbollah” already were Hezbollah, which was formed in 1982 by the Iranian terror regime. And the Hezbollah of those days is the same Hezbollah today. There is no evidence “that the Hezbollah of today bears no resemblance—politically, organizationally, or operationally—to the cells that carried out the 1983 attacks.” Hezbollah never apologized for the attacks. It’s the same radical Islamist group.

Anyway, let’s focus on the second to last quote so far on this article, about Ander’s claim that Hezbollah is struggling for land and is no enemy of the US. Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Ladin said:

I was ordered to fight the people until they say there is no god but Allah, and his prophet Muhammad.

Hamas and Hezbollah are not just fighting for land; but are also fighting to impose their form of Islam on the world. Hezbollah  states that:

But world opinion should know that Islamic conquest is not the same as conquests by other rulers of the world…. [Non‐Islamic] conquerors want to rule the world so that they 

can spread through it every injustice and sexual indecency, whereas Islam wants to conquer the world in order to promote spiritual values, and to prepare mankind for 
justice and Divine rule.

Al Aqsa TV, which is a Hamas’s television station, called for “world leadership under Islamic leadership.” And Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah said this to the demonstrators in Lebanon:

America, America you are the Great Satan.

He also said,”Death to America.” And Al Aqsa TV showed Mickey Mouse saying that:

Allah willing, this country, its children, its men, its women and its elderly – will win – we will win, brothers. We will win, Bush! We will win, Sharon! Ah, Sharon is dead. We will win, Mofaz. Mofaz left. We will win, Olmert, we will win Condoleezza … we will win.

And Hamas TV also showed a puppet show of a child telling President Bush that his father was killed by the Americans in Iraq and by the Israelis in Lebanon. It shows Bush promising to give the child whatever he wants and him saying that he doesn’t want anything from him. In the show, the child tells Bush that he is “impure” and that the white house was turned into the great mosque. AJC states that:

On an ideological level, Al-Qa`ida, a Sunni Islamist terror organiza- 
tion, shares a similar worldview with the Shi`i terror organization 
Hizballah. These terrorist movements are united in their perception 
of the United States as being the “enemy” of the Muslim world, and 
each has targeted the U.S.

Anders from the American Conservative denies that Hezbollah has an extensive terrorist network. He said:

For the past 20 years, there has been no evidence that Hezbollah has considered attacking American targets, either in the homeland or abroad. Federal law- enforcement officials have admitted that there is no evidence, despite overwhelming investigative efforts, that Hezbollah has ever sought to establish military “sleeper cells” in the U.S., and Hezbollah itself has repeatedly stated that it has no interest in attacking the U.S. and has recently participated in efforts at dialogue mediated by former British foreign service and intelligence officials. The absence of motive combined with the lack of evidence makes it difficult to see accounts of Hezbollah’s “vast international terrorist network”—“the A-team of terrorists” according to former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage—as credible.

As I said, Hezbollah killed the most Americans other than Al Qaeda. Hezbollah trained Al Qaeda terrorists and is tied with Al Qaeda. There is plenty of proof that Hezbollah has sleeper cells in America. They do have an international terrorist network. 

Hasan Nasrallah even encourages Palestinians to take suicide bombings worldwide. He said:

Martyrdom operations – suicide bombings – should be exported outside Palestine. I encourage Palestinians to take suicide bombings worldwide. Don’t be shy about it. 

In this article, the author says that Al Qaeda has different roots from Hezbollah and Hamas. The article claims:

In sharp contrast, al-Qaeda’s struggle is rooted in Wahhabi theology, the tribal legacies of Saudi Arabia, and the military experiences of Afghanistan, the Balkans, and Somalia. It wages a cosmic war against the impure values of the West and stands accountable to no specific constituency because it limits its struggle to no specific territory. It seeks to create alternatives to the modern institutions “imported” from the West. It rejects, other than on tactical grounds, political and religious pluralism because it views everyone outside the Salafist sphere as infidels or apostates. It is important to understand that even Hezbollah and Hamas are seen as part of this circle of apostates: the former on account of its Shi’a theology, the latter due to its co-operation with Hezbollah and the various secular Palestinian militant groups and movements. Al-Qaeda is a direct sworn enemy of the U.S. and appears to care little for confrontation with Israel. “Otherwise,” as one Palestinian official remarked, “the bastards would have driven those planes [on 9/11] into buildings in Israel, not New York and Washington.”

So the author quotes an unamed Palestinian official, possibly speaking to the west. For Arab governments including the Palestinian leadership and Islamists [even sometimes Hamas and Hezbollah] say one thing to the west [that is saying what the west wants to hear] and another thing to their own people [saying their real positions and goals]. The author does the same thing, by quoting an unnamed Hamas spokesman as saying,“We have no common enemy, as long as they wage a global struggle and we wage a local one.”

However, plenty of proof is out there that Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda view the United States and infidels as their common enemy.

On the roots, the author only shows some of the story. As stated, Hezbollah was created by Iran, which supports Al Qaeda, as shown in the 9/11 commission report, which says this about the bombing of the Kobar towers, which killed US soldiers in Saudi Arabia:

In June 1996, an enormous truck bomb detonated in the Khobar Towers 
residential complex in Dhahran,Saudi Arabia,that housed U.S.Air Force per 
sonnel.Nineteen Americans were killed,and 372 were wounded.The opera 
tion was carried out principally, perhaps exclusively, by Saudi Hezbollah, an 
organization that had received support from the government of Iran.While the 
evidence of Iranian involvement is strong, there are also signs that al Qaeda 
played some role, as yet unknown. [page 60]

 Al Qaeda came from the Mujahideen, which was supported by Iran [yes America supported them to prevent the Soviets from having it, but Iran supported them also because they were Islamists like the regime in Iran]. As for Hamas and al Qaeda, they have the same roots. 

Abdullah Azzam, a member of the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood, founded the Mujahideen, which Osama Bin Ladin fought in. Azzam was Bin Ladin’s mentor.  Bin Ladin founded Al Qaeda, which he leads even today. The Taliban also grew out the Mujahideen. 

And Hamas is the Palestinian faction of the Muslim Brotherhood. Article two of Hamas’s charter says:

The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of the Muslim Brothers in Palestine. The Muslim Brotherhood Movement is a world organization, the largest Islamic Movement in the modern era. It is characterized by a profound understanding, by precise notions and by a complete comprehensiveness of all concepts of Islam in all domains of life: views and beliefs, politics and economics, education and society, jurisprudence and rule, indoctrination and teaching, the arts and publications, the hidden and the evident, and all the other domains of life.

I also documented here how Hamas and Al Qaeda are from the same roots. Anders complains that:

As Hezbollah and Hamas find themselves under Israeli siege with U.S. approval, Arab and Israeli intelligence sources warn that Salafists are already moving in to fill the eventual void.

Of course, Israel strikes Hamas and Hezbollah. For they target Israeli civilians. Here’s how it works. They kill innocent Israeli men, women and children. And Israel strikes back to defend itself. See how it works? Duh? The author complains that:

Since Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May 2000 (although the continued occupation of the Sheba’a Farms remains a source of tension) Hezbollah’s raison d´être has been the almost daily Israeli violations of Lebanese territory. 

No, Hezbollah seeks the destruction of Israel, period. When Syria occupied Lebanon [unlike Israel, Syria was not defending itself from genocidal terrorists out to eliminate their country], Hezbollah didn’t resist it. Hezbollah embraced the Syrian occupiers. Syria even supported Hezbollah. Hezbollah seeks to eliminate Israel and export Iran’s Islamist system into Lebanon. Hezbollah’s 1985 program states that:

We see in Israel the vanguard of the United States in our Islamic world. It is the hated enemy that must be fought until the hated ones get what they deserve. This enemy is the greatest danger to our future generations and to the destiny of our lands, particularly as it glorifies the ideas of settlement and expansion, initiated in Palestine, and yearning outward to the extension of the Great Israel, from the Euphrates to the Nile. 

Our primary assumption in our fight against Israel states that the Zionist entity is aggressive from its inception, and built on lands wrested from their owners, at the expense of the rights of the Muslim people. Therefore our struggle will end only when this entity is obliterated. We recognize no treaty with it, no cease fire, and no peace agreements, whether separate or consolidated. 

We vigorously condemn all plans for negotiation with Israel, and regard all negotiators as enemies, for the reason that such negotiation is nothing but the recognition of the legitimacy of the Zionist occupation of Palestine. Therefore we oppose and reject the Camp David Agreements, the proposals of King Fahd, the Fez and Reagan plan, Brezhnev’s and the French-Egyptian proposals, and all other programs that include the recognition (even the implied recognition) of the Zionist entity.

Hezbollah sent suicide bombers to attack Israeli civilians and Israel struck back at Hezbollah. And as for the sheeba farms, the New Yorker reported that:

[Hassan] Ezzeddin seemed to concede that the Hezbollah campaign to rid Shebaa of Israeli troops is a pretext for something larger. “If they go from Shebaa, we will not stop fighting them,” he told me. “Our goal is to liberate the 1948 borders of Palestine,” he added, referring to the year of Israel’s founding. The Jews who survive this war of liberation, Ezzeddin said, “can go back to Germany, or wherever they came from.” He added, however, that the Jews who lived in Palestine before 1948 will be “allowed to live as a minority and they will be cared for by the Muslim majority.” Sayyid Nasrallah himself told a conference held in Tehran last year that “we all have an extraordinary historic opportunity to finish off the entire cancerous Zionist project.”

Hassan Ezzeddin is the chief spokesman for Hezbollah.

Hezbollah is a genocidal terrorist group. For Hasan Nasrallah said,”If all the Jews gather in Israel, it would save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.”

And for Hamas, the author claims that:

Destroying or weakening Hezbollah and Hamas without addressing the underlying grievances—occupation, prisoners, refugees—would merely cause the baton to be passed on to the next generation of fighters: the al-Qaeda-affiliated Salafists that are already waiting in the wings. 

Actually, Hamas’ “underlying grievance” is that Israel exists, period. For Hamas seeks to have Palestinians suffer, as long as Israel is destroyed. For Palestinian prisoners, they are ones who Israelis believe to be terrorists. The refugee crisis can be solved without any action from Israel. Even when Hamas was elected, they didn’t do anything to solve the refugee crisis. They never did anything to solve the Palestinian refugee crisis, being one of the groups to use them for a propaganda war on Israel. 

The author claimed that:

The Hamas government, by contrast, refused to recognize the existence of Israel—as long as Israel refused to end its occupation of the West Bank, release Palestinian prisoners, and agree to an equitable solution to the six-decade-long Palestinian refugee crisis. This position so galled Israel and the U.S. that the new democratically elected government—one of three in the entire Arab Middle East—was declared an obstacle to peace that needed to be removed.

Actually, Hamas refuses to recognize Israel’s existence, period. You just have to look at the Hamas charter, which no one from Hamas ever came to denounce or said that it’s null. Hamas repeatedly calls for the destruction of Israel, saying things like,”Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam obliterates it, just as it obliterates others before it.” Hamas controlled TV, schools and propaganda promotes Islamist anti-Semitism and calls for Israel’s destruction. The Hamas charter said:

The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:

“The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.” (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).

And the Hamas charter accused Israel, Jews and Judaism of fighting against Islam and the Muslims.

And the article says:

Only an exact equation of Israeli policy with the U.S. national interest could justify the prominence given by the administration to combating and marginalizing Hezbollah and Hamas. Yet Israeli commentators have recently remarked that the neocons’ apparently instrumental view of Israel is anything but helpful. Daniel Levy writes in the Israeli daily Ha’aretz about “the near-perfect symmetry of Israeli and American polic,” but goes on to suggest that “disentangling Israeli interests from the rubble of neocon ‘creative destruction’ in the Middle East has become an urgent challenge for Israeli policy-makers. An America that seeks to reshape the region through an unsophisticated mixture of bombs and ballots, devoid of local contextual understanding, alliance-building or redressing of grievances, ultimately undermines both itself and Israel.”

Yea, Anders. And I suppose it’s better for Israel to have America cooperate with two genocidal terrorist organizations that seek Israel’s destruction and that kill innocent Israeli men, women and children?

Using Hamas and Hezbollah as a counterweight to Al Qaeda is as foolish today as using Cuba or North Vietnam to counter the Soviet Union in the Cold war. All the regimes come from the same expansionist ideology, Communism. And Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda come from the same ideology, radical Islam. Using Hamas and Hezbollah against Al Qaeda would isolate the moderate Muslims, who want to make their faith compatible with democracy, and are America’s true allies. America has been bombing, adding to the US State Department list of Foreign terrorist organizations and working to isolate the National Council of Resistance in Iran [NCRI] and its main group the Mujahideen-e-Khalq [MEK] to appease Iran. It would be even worse if America does what this author says. If America does it, then it would even go as far as America isolating Israel, America’s most important ally in the Middle East, which votes for the same things America votes for. Hamas and Hezbollah are both genocidal terrorist groups. For America shouldn’t be supporting genocidal Islamist terrorist groups that target innocent civilians with the goal of destroying a democracy, especially if the democracy is America’s close ally. Hamas and Hezbollah have the same goals as Al Qaeda. Those two terrorist groups cooperated with and support Al Qaeda. Not only would using Hezbollah and Hamas against al Qaeda would be at the expense of Israel, a close ally, and her citizens, but it would also be ineffective, since Hamas and Hezbollah view America as not only worse than Al Qaeda, but also share the view that America is the enemy, cooperate against that country, and also follow the same backwards interpretation of Islam known as Islamism.