This Ongoing War..
18 November '13..
While Hamas and the Palestinian Authority never miss an opportunity to pour official scorn on those who have anything to do with the despised Israelis and the "Zionist Entity", things can be a tiny bit different when their own personal interests are involved.
Some nineteen months ago, Hamas prime minister Ismail Hanieyeh’s brother-in-law was rushed to one of Israel's major medical facilities, Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikvah's Rabin Medical Center, for urgent cardiac treatment. This was reported months after it happened, presumably because of the acute embarrassment that might be expected to result from the sheer hypocrisy on display.
An Al Arabiya article, published 8 August 2012, reported that the husband of Suhila Abed el-Salam Ahmed Hanieyeh, who is Ismail Hanieyeh's sister, had suffered a serious cardiac episode which was beyond the professional capabilities of any Gaza hospital to treat. The well-connected Gazan couple could have placed their fate, the article said, in the hands of medical professionals in a more advanced medical center in Egypt. But they chose to go to the Israeli hospital instead. Presumably no one on the Israeli side had a problem with this. There is no sign that getting approval from the Gazan authorities caused anyone any problems.
A Palestinian ambulance brought the couple to the Erez Crossing. There he was transferred into a Magen David Adom ambulance and taken to Beilinson where he stayed along with his wife for about a week. Once his condition had "stabilized", the couple returned to Gaza. End of story.
All of this colors Hanieyeh moderate to mellow in relation to Hamas' relations with Israel, right? Not so right. Some Hanieyeh sound bites:
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