http://dagblog.com/link/hamas-really-surrogate-iran-15568 Comments for "Is Hamas Really a 'Surrogate' of Iran?" en http://dagblog.com/comment/170898#comment-170898 <a id="comment-170898"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/hamas-really-surrogate-iran-15568">Is Hamas Really a &#039;Surrogate&#039; of Iran?</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><blockquote> <p>The Hamas-as-Iranian-puppet narrative gets help from American media. Consider, for example, this week's <em>New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/23/world/middleeast/for-israel-gaza-conflict-a-practice-run-for-a-possible-iran-confrontation.html?hp">piece</a> by David Sanger and Thom Shanker asking what the recent Israel-Gaza conflict tells us about how a possible war with Iran might play out.</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>The confident assertion that Hamas is an Iranian "surrogate"--a claim Sanger and Shanker never get around to substantiating--is oddly out of touch with recent developments in the region.</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> </div></div></div> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:03:37 +0000 A Guy Called LULU comment 170898 at http://dagblog.com