Hamas

Splittringen inom Hamas ökar.Ledarna i Gaza skulle vara beredda till vissa kompromisser medan ledarna i Damaskus samarbetar med Iran och har en mer kompromisslös inställning, skriver Haaretz.
Hamas har också drabbats av flera bakslag den senaste tiden. Läs mera:Hamas moderates can't halt the slide toward Tehran
"Hamas has suffered more than a little embarrassment in the past few weeks. It began with the assassination of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai and the obvious implication that a Hamas insider had aided whatever agency carried out the hit. Next came Mosab Yusef, son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef - a founder of Hamas and one of its top men in the West Bank - who revealed in an interview with Haaretz that he had worked as a Shin Bet agent for more than a decade.
Hamas, of course, responded immediately with claims of the inevitable 'Zionist plot'. But as if to add insult to injury, on Friday Haaretz reported that Mahmoud Zahar, one of the group's leaders in the Gaza Strip, had resigned from a team negotiating the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Zahar, it appeared, had become increasingly frustrated with the extreme line favored by the organization's political leadership in Damascus and by senior military commanders like Ahmad Jabri, Nizar Awadallah and Marwan Issa..."