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Source: https://jcfa.org/hamas-has-two-godfathers-iran-and-the-muslim-brotherhood-an-illustrated-analysis/
Hamas Has Two Godfathers - Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood: An Illustrated Analysis
(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Lenny Ben-David - One of Hamas's two godfathers is the royal family in Qatar. Actually, Doha is also the residence of Hamas's "Godmother," Sheikha Moza, the mother of Qatar's Emir. She sponsors and shelters the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. Since Yasser Arafat's rush to Iran to embrace Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, the revolutionary Iranian state has been the Palestinian terrorist organizations' strongest sponsor. Recent history has demonstrated that centuries of violent religious strife between the Brotherhood's fundamentalist Sunni Muslim doctrine and Iran's Shiite brand of Islam fail to constitute any ideological barrier in the world of international terrorism when it comes to Israel. The writer, former Deputy Chief of Mission at Israel's Embassy in Washington, is a Research and Diplomacy Fellow at the Jerusalem Center.