The Bible teaches that Abraham is the father of the
[Genesis 17:20]
God made His Covenant(s) with Israel but they
So why is America so disposed to back Zionism
WHAT DO YOU know about Hamas?
That it’s sworn to destroy Israel? That it’s a terrorist group, proscribed
both by the United States and the European Union? That it rules Gaza
with an iron fist? That it’s killed hundreds of innocent Israelis with rocket,
But did you also know that Hamas — which is an Arabic acronym for
“Islamic Resistance Movement” — would probably not exist today were
it not for the Jewish state? That the Israelis helped turn a bunch of fringe
Palestinian Islamists in the late 1970s into one of the world’s most
notorious militant groups? That Hamas is blowback?
This isn’t a conspiracy theory. 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.”)
“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.
They didn’t listen to him. And Hamas, as I explain in the fifth installment
of my short film series for The Intercept on blowback, was the result. To
be clear: First, the Israelis helped build up a militant strain of Palestinian
political Islam, in the form of Hamas and its Muslim Brotherhood
precursors; then, the Israelis switched tack and tried to bomb, besiege,
and blockade it out of existence.
In the past decade alone, Israel has gone to war with Hamas three
times — in 2009, 2012, and 2014 — killing around 2,500 Palestinian
civilians in Gaza in the process. Meanwhile, Hamas has killed far more Israeli civilians than any secular Palestinian militant group. This is the human cost of blowback.
“When I look back at the chain of events, I think we made a mistake,”
David Hacham, a former Arab affairs expert in the Israeli military
who was based in Gaza in the 1980s, later remarked. “But at the time,
nobody thought about the possible results.”
They never do, do they?
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