@asayeed @Alon @BenRossTransit it is a national liberation movement and a canny political actor so, sure, when it interacts with governing elites in Turkey and Qatar it is happy to confine its ambitions to the territory between the river and the sea. but i think at its roots it’s allied with the broader pan-Islamist cause, the Zionist entity is a sharp foreign object that must be removed before the wound to the greater umma can be healed. 2/