• WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Maybe you meant the funding Hamas piece - here’s Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s telling 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.

    The Israeli government gave me a budget, and the military government gives to the mosques.”

    Unsurprisingly, Arafat also referred to Hamas as

    A creature of Israel

    Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades speaking to the WSJ…

    Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation