had to look up that reply I posted from eight months ago - corroborating what I had learned from your vid:
“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza...Listen to former Israeli officials such as Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s. 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.”)
I remember hearing this back in the day... thanks." Very informative discussion!! thanks
How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas By Andrew Higgins
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.
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