The Origins of Hamas: An Israeli Creation.
Hamas has run the Gaza Strip since 2007 after a brief civil war with forces loyal to the Fatah movement led by President Mahmoud Abbas, who is based in the West Bank and also heads the Palestine Liberation Organization, furthermore, Opponents of the Israeli government and some global media have accused Netanyahu governments of boosting Gaza rulers Hamas for years, including by allowing Qatari financing of Gaza. “Yes, Hamas was financed by the government of Israel in an attempt to weaken the Palestinian Authority led by Fatah,” (Borrell 2024).
Even Israeli former ministers admit as much, it isn’t a conspiracy theory, as many Israelis would burp out just 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 (PLO) and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat (who himself referred to Hamas as “a creature of Israel.”) he further adds, “The Israeli government gave me a budget,” the retired brigadier general confessed, “and the military government gives to the mosques.” (Hasan & Sayed Ahmed 2018).
Another Israeli Jewish religious leader named Avner Cohen stated “Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” 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,” (Cohen 2009).
Yet another more closely tied to Netanyahu, Israeli major general Gershon Hacohen, an associate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said in a 2019 TV interview. “Netanyahu’s strategy is to prevent the option of two states, so he is turning Hamas into his closest partner. Openly Hamas is an enemy. Covertly, it’s an ally.” (Hacohen 2019). Why does this matter you ask? Understanding Israel’s strategy can help us read through the lines of the Israeli government’s rhetoric on Hamas’s barbarism, It also helps illuminate Netanyahu’s vision for the region and his ultimate endgame. NO TWO STATE SOLUTION.
So, as I have stated many times what happened on the 7th of October 2023 was not unexpected, you can not put a lion in a cage and simply crack a whip and tame it into submission, and that is what Israel attempted to do with Hamas. 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 (The Intercept 2018).
Israel has previously tried three (3) times to dismantle their creation (Hamas), once in 2009, then again in 2012, and lastly, before current events in 2014, Israel killed approximately 2,600 Gazans from those attempts, I have to say this time 2023-2024, thus far over 80,000 Gazans have been killed or severely injured and every day that number climbs.
Israel followed the lead of their number one (1) contributor to genocide, the United States (US) in propping up Islamic Jihadists to fix a problem, yes readers of my LinkedIn, it has happened in the past, remember this one: The multibillion-dollar American program from 1980 to create anti-Soviet jihadis represented what still remains the largest covert operation in the Central Intelligence Agency’s history. In 1985, at a White House ceremony attended by several mujahideen, then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan gestured toward his guests and declared, “These gentlemen are the moral equivalent of America’s Founding Fathers.” (Reagan 1985). Another Presidential candidate and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton years later stated “Out of the mujahideen evolved the Taliban and al-Qaida, then We trained them, we equipped them, we funded them, including somebody named Osama bin Laden (OBL) And it didn’t work out so well for us.” (Clinton 2010).
Why did Israel create Hamas?
Since 2009, Netanyahu’s political strategy has revolved around keeping Hamas alive and kicking even if it hurts his own people. While Israel and Netanyahu give lip service on the international stage to seeking a two-state solution, Hamas provides a convenient excuse to avoid pursuing one (Khan & Mangla 2023).
Jump forward to 2019 and Netanyahu openly stated at a Likud Party Meeting “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas. This is part of our strategy to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.” (Netanyahu 2019).
Israel’s objective is twofold: to split the nationalist Palestinian movement led by Arafat and, more fundamentally, to thwart the implementation of the two-state solution for resolving the protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By aiding the rise of an Islamist group whose charter rejected recognizing the Israeli state, Israel sought to undermine the idea of a two-state solution, including curbing Western support for an independent Palestinian homeland (Chellaney 2023).
In a book named ‘The Other Side Of Deception’ Written by a former MOSSAD agent named Victor Ostrovsky it is revealed that aiding Hamas meshed with “Mossad’s general plan” for an Arab world “run by fundamentalists” that would reject “any negotiations with the West,” thereby leaving Israel as “the only democratic, rational country in the region.” (Ostrovsky 1994). A link to the book is here:
https://www.abebooks.com/9780060176358/Side-Deception-Rogue-Agent-Exposes-0060176350/plp
In a 2015 interview, Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich explained that Hamas’s militancy, and therefore its illegitimacy on the world stage, was a boon for his government’s political strategy, adding “The Palestinian Authority is a burden, and Hamas is an asset,” Smotrich said. “It’s a terrorist organization, no one will recognize it, no one will give it status at the International Criminal Court (ICC), no one will let it put forth a resolution at the U.N. Security Council” (Smotrich 2015).
To conclude this article, I will say a few words from previous historical events that yet again we as a human race have not learnt from, America’s longest war that lasted an astonishing 20 years, ended with the Taliban’s return to power, so why did American and Allied soldiers die? For what? To liberate a region, yet it ended with the reconstitution of a medieval, ultraconservative, jihad-extolling emirate in Afghanistan. But Israel’s war against Hamas in which it helped spawn, finance, and boost will be one that Israel will never win, if anything, how Israel has responded to the 7th of October 2023 events by its butchery, savagery, and its all-out genocidal war, has proven that Israel is a terrorist state and it is an unstable government, unhinged from reality that is only endangering the lives of its Israeli and Jewish citizens, not to mention its hostages, by a continued bombardment of a people who have suffered for over 60 years in an open-air prison. Israel you let the demon out to play and now you can’t reign it back in, you are Dr Frankenstein and your monster is outta the bag now.
Nadiyah Atiya (2024)
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