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<\/a>Israel Exposed Hamas\u2019s Terror Network Across Europe. Will UK Media Now Stop Treating Its Leaders With Kid Gloves?<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nJonathan Sacerdoti<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Over the past two years, senior Hamas official Basem Naim<\/a> has been granted multiple high\u2011profile interviews on UK platforms such as Sky News and the BBC \u2014 remarkable visibility for someone with a leadership position in a designated terrorist group. Now, in light of a startling disclosure by Israel\u2019s intelligence agency Mossad concerning a Europe\u2011wide terror infrastructure attributed to Hamas, those media appearances demand re\u2011examination.<\/span><\/p>\n The Israeli Prime Minister\u2019s Office released a statement this week on behalf of the Mossad saying the agency, in cooperation with European counterparts, has dismantled a network of terror cells<\/a> across Germany, Austria, and beyond \u2014 cells that stockpiled weapons and stood ready to strike Jewish and Israeli targets on the continent.<\/span><\/p>\n Among the most striking details was a weapons cache seized in Vienna last September, consisting of pistols and explosives and traced to a certain Muhammad\u202fNaim, who was identified by Israeli intelligence as the son of Basem\u202fNaim. Investigators reportedly uncovered a meeting in Qatar between father and son, allegedly signaling leadership\u2011level approval of the European operation.<\/span><\/p>\n When one considers that Basem\u202fNaim has been treated in the UK media as a mainstream political figure, flattered with copious airtime, speaking from Istanbul and Doha, questions must be asked.<\/span><\/p>\n On Oct. 10, Sky News\u2019 lightweight foreign news presenter Yalda Hakim interviewed Naim in Doha<\/a> (perhaps she flew there on Sky News\u2019 weather forecast sponsor Qatar Airways\u2019 own fleet), where she didn\u2019t once question Hamas\u2019s international terrorism aimed at Jews. Instead, Naim was given time to claim Hamas was prepared to relinquish governing Gaza but would not agree to disarm.<\/span><\/p>\n Hakim\u2019s three softball interviews of Naim never one challenged the terrorist and his organization\u2019s evil, sadistic behaviors or ideology in as aggressive a way as she badgered me for doubting the discredited and disproven Hamas-supplied casualty figures<\/a> during the Gaza war. Earlier, a BBC \u201cHardTalk\u201d session with Sarah\u202fMontague on Jan. 29 featured Naim on Gaza\u2019s future, once again without evident interrogation of his organization\u2019s international terror links.<\/span><\/p>\n I myself appeared on Hakim\u2019s Sky studio show back in February 2024, immediately after another segment with Naim, and openly criticized the absurdity of the interview \u2014 from Turkey, during active warfare in Gaza \u2014 where no questions were asked about Hamas\u2019s torture of its own people or its transnational terror ambitions. I pointed out that he had served as minister of health in the first government of arch-terrorist Ismael Haniyeh<\/a>, only for the other guest, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, to jump in and suggest that his willingness to perpetuate the suffering of Gazans while he was safe in Turkey was somehow akin to Yair Netanyahu, the son of the Israeli Prime Minister and a private citizen, living in the US. In conversion outside the studio, she insisted to me that Israel\u2019s main problem was its democratically elected leader but, when challenged, couldn\u2019t name a single other Israeli leader who she thought would act differently in the circumstances. I\u2019m not sure she could name any other Israeli politicians at all. No criticism of Dr. Naim, though.<\/span><\/p>\n Having highlighted this at the time, I hope that now the mainstream media and establishment\u2019s choice to confer legitimacy on Naim without substantive challenge on important issues is reconsidered. (I haven\u2019t had the opportunity to ask Hakim or Warsi since then).<\/span><\/p>\n To dismiss Palestinian terrorism as only a local Israeli problem is to ignore how Hamas has long viewed itself: as a regional, even global, movement, and an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood \u2014 a transnational Islamic jihadist movement<\/a>. Indeed, senior Hamas leadership in Gaza have, for years, framed their cause not simply as liberation of the enclave but as vanguard of a broader \u201cresistance\u201d spanning all of Israel, with their own founding charter clear on its views of Jews in general. They want us dead. To anyone who claims it\u2019s all just rhetoric, the European arrests and weapon caches expose their ambitions in operational form.<\/span><\/p>\n The recent arrest in London of a British man accused of helping move firearms into Europe for attacks on Jewish and Israeli targets should dispel any lingering doubt about how far these networks extend.<\/span><\/p>\n German authorities say the suspect was detained in the UK on a German warrant after a monthslong investigation into a Hamas-linked cell operating across Germany and Austria<\/a>. According to Germany\u2019s Federal Prosecutor, he was a member of Hamas and twice traveled to Berlin over the summer to meet a German citizen referred to as Abed Al G, who was arrested earlier alongside two others described as \u201cforeign operatives\u201d alleged to have been seeking weapons for attacks on Jewish sites. During those arrests police seized an AK-47, several handguns, and quantities of ammunition. Prosecutors say the suspect had already taken delivery of five handguns and ammunition and transported them to Vienna for safekeeping.<\/span><\/p>\n The picture emerging is of a network that now reaches into Britain itself.<\/span><\/p>\n In this context, Britain\u2019s recent decision to admit young Palestinian students from Gaza with fully\u2011funded scholarships \u2014 and dependent family members \u2014 is disturbing. On the face of it, the initiative is humanitarian. But when set against the backdrop of a terror network active on European soil, rooted into Hamas leadership and stretched into host\u2011countries, it smacks of policy na\u00efvet\u00e9, or worse, \u201csuicidal empathy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Granting access to students and their families from a territory under Hamas control where generations have been educated to idolize terrorists<\/a> and carry out attacks like the Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel seems more than a little foolish. UK campuses are experiencing rising extremism as it is, and radicalization is a known problem without importing the children of a Gazan education system built on antisemitism and violence.<\/span><\/p>\n The threat, it seems, is not only on Israel\u2019s doorstep \u2014 it may be on our own. And while compassion is a noble instinct, in a world of asymmetric warfare, porous borders, and subterranean terror networks, we risk opening doors without knowing what, or whom, may walk through.<\/span><\/p>\n When the media treats a senior Hamas figure as legitimate without challenge, when Western academic institutions open their doors to students from societies led by terrorist groups<\/a>, and when intelligence agencies expose the apparatus of terror on our continent, can we still afford to view Palestinian terrorism as someone else\u2019s problem? Or have we now become part of that problem ourselves?<\/span><\/p>\n Jonathan Sacerdoti<\/strong>, a writer and broadcaster, is now a contributor to <\/em>The Algemeiner.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> Israel Exposed Hamas\u2019s Terror Network Across Europe. Will UK Media Now Stop Treating Its Leaders With Kid Gloves? Jonathan Sacerdoti Basem Naim, a senior Hamas official in Gaza, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 16, 2024. Photo: REUTERS\/Murad Sezer Over the past two years, senior Hamas official Basem Naim has been granted multiple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[33,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126061"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126080,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126061\/revisions\/126080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Basem Naim, a senior Hamas official in Gaza, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 16, 2024. Photo: REUTERS\/Murad Sezer<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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