Robert Williams • For full article see https://tinyurl.com/4kvn7fkf
"Hamas sees Western countries such as Germany as a
refuge in which the organization can concentrate on collecting donations,
recruiting new supporters, and spreading its propaganda." — Germany's
domestic intelligence service, apnews.com, November 23, 2023.
- In February, Belgium's justice minister
confirmed that Hamas operates in Brussels... through a network of front
companies raising funds for the terrorist organization... Belgian
authorities nevertheless continue to allow Hamas to operate there.
- "Hamas has been in Europe for about
30 years. It's an open secret. Of course, they don't call themselves
Hamas... They will have names like Conference of Palestinians Abroad,
Palestinians in (country name), Palestinian Students Abroad, and so on. But
when you dig a bit, you find out who the people are behind these
associations, and what their connections are back home. It's always the
same cluster of 20-25 people. Their propaganda, their social media
patterns, everything is Hamas." — Lorenzo Vidino, director of the
program on extremism at George Washington University, April 12, 2024.
- "This is a typical Muslim Brotherhood
tactic. They come up with a million different names for their
organizations, for two reasons: Firstly, they want to give the impression
that it's a broad movement, so that when they organize a public event,
there will be 50 participating organizations, or if they publish a public
letter, there will be 50 signatory groups. Secondly, if one of these
groups is taken down by law enforcement, well, there's all the other
ones." — Lorenzo Vidino, April 12, 2024.
- In all of this, Iran's Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is a central actor. As stated by the US
Congress, the IRGC "trains, funds, arms, and shares intelligence with
dangerous proxy forces throughout the Middle East and abroad" and has
targeted both European and American civilians.
- The US Congress, Israel and
thousands of Iranians have urged the European Union to designate the IRGC
as a terrorist organization. Nevertheless, the EU refuses to designate the
IRGC as a terrorist organization.
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