(1) A 2009 article in the Wall Street Journal reveals how Israel helped spawn Hamas. The link is pasted below for reference. It quotes a senior Israeli official, who was responsible for religious affairs in the region until 1994, basically admitting as much, “Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation.”
(2) This is hardly conspiracy theory, but rather straight out historical fact and open secret. Israel (and the West for that matter) have detested indigenous secular/leftist resistance movements against colonization and imperialism in the Muslim world, especially as many were sympathetic to the erstwhile Soviet Union and continue to be sympathetic to Russia and China in the present day. There has been a consistent effort by Western power players to fund and covertly bolster Islamist radicals.
(3) This happened with the Palestinian resistance as well. In order to torpedo the secular core of the Palestinian liberation struggle, as represented by groups like Fatah and the PFLP, Israel directly funded an offshoot of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood – the militant monster we know as Hamas today. How did they do this? A certain Brigadier General who was military governor of Gaza in the early 80s.
(4) Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev. As mentioned, he was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 80s. Segev was the man who directly funded Hamas as a counterweight to the more secular and leftist parts of the Palestinian resistance.
(5) As per an in-depth investigative piece by The Intercept (link pasted below):
“Segev later told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat (who himself referred to Hamas as “a creature of Israel.”)
“The Israeli government gave me a budget,” the retired brigadier general confessed, “and the military government gives to the mosques.”
“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009. Back in the mid-1980s, Cohen even wrote an official report to his superiors warning them not to play divide-and-rule in the Occupied Territories, by backing Palestinian Islamists against Palestinian secularists. “I … suggest focusing our efforts on finding ways to break up this monster before this reality jumps in our face,” he wrote.
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/
(6) This historical fact cannot be ignored and presents a very different context to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, maybe even Hezbollah in the days to come. The Western world needs to take heed of this and not be played for patsies.
(7) Israel wants the Palestinian resistance to be Islamized and virulently unwilling to compromise on the existence of a Jewish nation-state. Because it helps whip up nationalist sentiment, and ultimately provides cover for their ethnic cleansing and historic land grab goals. Islamist radicalism benefits Western imperialism.
(8) Lest we forget what the ultimate goal of the Israeli state is, here’s Bibi at the UN recently giving a presentation on “The New Middle East”. Notice what’s missing in the map of Israel? Any mention of Palestine. It’s basically stating what Israel has always wanted – all of historic Palestine, including the West Bank and Gaza. A bit of genocide and a lot of ethnic cleansing to complete the occupation and establish a full-fledged apartheid state without the liberal veneer.
(9) One fears, however, that unless Israel pulls away from this fascist brutality and naked oppression of the Palestinians, they will have an existential crisis the likes of which they’ve never faced.
(10) Only the citizenry of Israel can prevent this madness and they need to know that this Israeli government is not on their side. As this is written, the families of the Israeli hostages are being actively ignored, even attacked by Netanyahu supporters for seeking the return of their loved ones.
(11) But Israel might just be looking at their own hostages as nothing more than collateral damage in their desire to occupy Gaza and eventually the West Bank. Channel 4 News interviewed a long-time Israeli hostage negotiator, Gershon Baskin, who has currently opened back channel negotiations with Hamas, desperately hoping to get women, children and vulnerable hostages in exchange for Palestinian women and children prisoners held by Israel. However, when pressed on the goals of the Israeli government, he admitted, “my assessment is…that the government, the military, and the majority of the people of Israel are willing to sacrifice the hostages.”
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Broken Shackles Media | Citizen Journalism | Oct 15 2023
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