There is a saying, that only your true friends will tell you what’s good for you. A report on Saturday states a top Al-Qaeda advisor finally said what needs to be said to Hamas: Give it up.
Reports from an American Jihadist monitoring organization called SITE say that Mustafa Hamid, also known as Abu Walid al-Masri, made a declaration to Hamas online Friday. He is believed to be the advisor and father-in-law of Saif al-Adel, the man who is now believed to be the leader of Al-Qaeda.
Of course, he hailed Yahya Sinwar as a martyr and hero. But then he called on Hamas to release the hostages and think instead of the plight of Palestinian prisoners:
Hamas must now “immediately” return the hostages and their bodies, and “this file must be closed and not opened again, as we know its consequences,” according to the statement.
“No one cares about the Palestinian prisoners,…