Jan 13th 2009 Israel Infanticide Herd & Kill USA Blocks UN Video 500 Pound Bombs in Gaza

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Israel's support for Hamas in the past By Yossi Schwartz Today in the Palestinian territories the main opposition to the Israeli occupation of 1967 has become the Islamic movement known as Hamas...

Israel's support for Hamas in the past

By Yossi Schwartz

Today in the Palestinian territories the main opposition to the Israeli occupation of 1967 has become the Islamic movement known as Hamas. While our support for the Palestinian struggle for national freedom does not depend on who is leading that movement at any given moment, Marxists must struggle to replace this reactionary leadership not with the bankrupt PLO but with the leadership of the working class. Hamas' aim is not to liberate the working class, the poor peasants and the urban poor, but to create a single, Islamic state within historical Palestine, which is now largely divided between Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Hamas, meaning "zeal" or "fervour" in Arabic, is an acronym for Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya, or Islamic Resistance Movement. The group was founded as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt.

It is not a well known fact, but it will not surprise those who know anything about the history of the Taliban in Afghanistan, that Israel in many ways initially created this monster but later lost control over it.

Richard Sale, a UPI Correspondent, wrote an illuminating article on the origin of Hamas in which he pointed out that, "According to several current and former U.S. intelligence officials, beginning in the late 1970s, Tel Aviv gave direct and indirect financial aid to Hamas over a period of years."

Israel "aided Hamas directly ‑ the Israelis wanted to use it as a counterbalance to the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)," said Tony Cordesman, Middle East analyst for the Center for Strategic Studies.

Israel's support for Hamas "was a direct attempt to divide and dilute support for a strong, secular PLO by using a competing religious alternative," said a former senior CIA official.

According to documents United Press International obtained from the Israel-based Institute for Counter Terrorism, Hamas evolved from cells of the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928. Islamic movements in Israel and Palestine were "weak and dormant" until after the 1967 Six Day War.

After 1967, a great part of the success of the Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood was due to their activities among the refugees in the Gaza Strip. The cornerstone of the Islamic movement's success was an impressive social, religious, educational and cultural infrastructure, called Da'wah, that worked to ease the hardship of large numbers of Palestinian refugees, confined to camps, and many who were living on the edge of poverty.

"Social influence grew into political influence, first in the Gaza Strip, then on the West Bank", said an administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

According to ICT papers, Hamas was legally registered in Israel in 1978 by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the movement's spiritual leader, as an Islamic Association with the name of Al-Mujamma al Islami, which widened its base of supporters and sympathizers through religious propaganda and social work.

According to U.S. administration officials, funds for the movement came from the oil-producing states and directly and indirectly from Israel itself. The PLO was secular and leftist and promoted Palestinian nationalism. Hamas wanted to set up a transnational state under the rule of Islam, much like Khomeini's Iran.

"The thinking on the part of some of the right-wing Israeli establishment was that Hamas and the others, if they gained control, would refuse to have any part of the peace process and would torpedo any agreements put in place," said a U.S. government official who asked not to be named. "Israel would still be the only democracy in the region for the United States to deal with," he said.

According to former State Department counter-terrorism official Larry Johnson, "the Israelis are their own worst enemies when it comes to fighting terrorism. The Israelis are like a guy who sets fire to his hair and then tries to put it out by hitting it with a hammer. They do more to incite and sustain terrorism than curb it," he said." (Published on the June 18, 2002)

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jethromayham (1 week ago) Show Hide

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Hell yes I would be pissed if the Hamas were firing random rockets where I live. Hell yes I would want my country to do something about it. Hell yes I would support my country to attack them until they stopped.

Hell yes I would try to annhilate them if they didn't stop. Now they are still bringing in more rockets so the next time we have to level them and bury them in their tunnels.

10FoylHat (6 days ago) Show Hide

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overkill, don't be stupid.

MayaKLan (1 month ago) Show Hide

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you are currently using intel? your mobile phone has a camera? if you had a heart attack would you prefer to die or have a heart valve save your life? im not even going into medical technology here because the donation (yes, DONATION) has been overwhelming. but yeah, fuck israel. lets just spread hate, that will bring peace haha

mamus4 (3 months ago) Show Hide

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Its about time something was dont about these Muslim Padaphiles that try to marry 7 year old girls , they are murderers and sickos, destroy Islam the religion of pedaphile mohammd that married a 6 year old girl Aisha go read history on this dirty religion

jethromayham (1 week ago) Show Hide

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They are lucky that the IDF did not fire 2,000 pound JDAMS on them.

The US would have carpet bombed if they got involved.

oldjoe5 (7 months ago) Show Hide

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"you cant be in government n have dual-citizenship"

Rahm Emanuel, Michael Cherthoff?

efi929 (7 months ago) Show Hide

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well Israel can go with Russia japan n more . . .

annebeck58 (7 months ago) Show Hide

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Perhaps, efi, they should. I know it would make a LOT of Amerians much happier. WE are tired of being called Zionists for what OUR government has done AND continues to do on the side of Israel.
I wish they WOULD go with Jaoan OR, Korea (esp). Of course, what does Korea have to offer them other than more weapons? Surely they have no FOOD to offer! I dont think Russia would ever go with Israel, not now anyway..

efi929 (7 months ago) Show Hide

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i agree .. . .

efi929 (7 months ago) Show Hide

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well come to the middle east ....

i promise to show you at least the other side!!!

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