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Hamas-Russia ties set for explosive growth

Moscow readies arms sales to PA, increases dominance in region


By Ryan Jones
February 17, 2006

There is little chance Hamas' visit to Moscow in the coming weeks at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin will result in the terror group moderating its positions, which Washington and its European allies had hoped would be the primary focus of talks.

Instead, the new masters of the Palestinian Authority are likely to return with shiny new weapons with which to further bleed the Jewish state.

Confirming the existence of a possible arms deal, the Russian military's chief of staff, General Yuri Baluyevsky, told his nation's Interfax news agency Thursday:

?The decision to sell arms to Hamas must be reached through the cooperation of both sides.?

Meanwhile, cooperation between Russia and Hamas is expected to encounter few obstacles as the Kremlin looks to utilize the terrorists' overwhelming electoral victory to reassert its once dominant influence in the Middle East.

As Hamas swept to victory at the ballot box last month, Putin declared almost gleefully that the Palestinian Arabs' choice represented:

?A big blow to American efforts in the Middle East, a very serious blow.?

The burgeoning ties between Russia and an entity uniquely positioned to oversee the destruction of Israel, and the planned transfer of weapons of war from the former to the latter will immediately draw parallels to the prophecy of an invasion by ?Gog, of the land of Magog? for those who read and believe the Word of God.

Thus says the Lord God: ?On that day when My people Israel dwell safely, will you not know it? Then you will come from your place out of the far north, you and many peoples with you... You will come up against My people Israel... It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes.? (Ezekiel 38:14-16)

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