How Israel helped create Hamas
To a certain degree, the Islamist organization whose militant wing has rained rockets on Israel the past few weeks has the Jewish state to thank for its existence. Hamas launched in 1988 in Gaza at the time of the first intifada, or uprising, with a charter now infamous for its anti-Semitism and
its refusal to accept the existence of the Israeli state. But for more than a decade prior, Israeli authorities actively enabled its rise.
How Israel helped prop up Hamas for decades
Analysis: What is Hamas, and why has Israel deliberately enabled its existence for years?
What is Hamas, and why has Israel deliberately enabled its existence for years?
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Israel created Hamas for precisely this reason: to justify Israel's ethnic cleansing and permanent occupation / apartheid, and to use terrorism by extremists (Hamas) to justify ethnically cleansing all of Gaza.
On October 7th, all their investments into Hamas were repaid, with interest. Sadly, Hamas use tunnels to save themselves and leave civilians to get slaughtered on the surface.
This honourable Sheikh puts it well:
"What type of Jihad is this, hiding underground while the oppressed Palestinians are left defenceless without weapons or even food."
Ordinary Palestinians are stuck between Israeli occupation and Israel-backed Hamas extremists, and the civilians always pay the price for the crimes of both. Very sad.