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Israeli Roots of Hamas are Being Exposed (archives.globalresearch.ca)

Speaking in Jerusalem Dec. 20, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer made the connection between the growth of the Islamic fundamentalist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and Israel’s promotion of the Islamic movement as a counter to the Palestinian nationalist movement. Kurtzer’s comments come very close to EIR’s own presentation of the evidence of Israel’s instrumental role in establishing Hamas, and its ongoing control of that organization.

Kurtzer said that the growth of the Islamic movement in the Palestinian territories in recent decades�”with the tacit support of Israel”�was “not totally unrelated” to the emergence of Hamas and Islamic Jihad and their terrorist attacks against Israel. Kurtzer explained that during the 1980s, when the Islamic movement began to flourish in the West Bank and Gaza, “Israel perceived it to be better to have people turning toward religion rather than toward a nationalistic cause [the Palestinian Liberation Organization�ed.].” It therefore did little to stop the flow of money to mosques and other religious institutions, rather than to schools.

According to the Dec. 21 Israeli daily Ha’aretz, Kurtzer made these extraordinary statements at a seminar on religion and politics sponsored by Oz V’Shalom-Netivot Shalom, a largely Anglo-American organization that promotes peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein, the head of Har Etzion Yeshiva in Alon Shvut, who is an active advocate of a just regional peace, also spoke. Kurtzer said that as a result of the growth of Islam at the expense of education, there are now Palestinians who are “determined terrorists that use religious beliefs in a perverted way to appeal to the masses.”

Kurtzer said that cultural and religious interaction is potentially a way to “build bridges.” But instead, “the perverted use of religion in the region is today becoming one of the great challenges for the years ahead.” He said that there is no “inherent component” in Islam that advocates violence. But one of the five principles of Islam, jihad�resistance�”in classic religious associations connotes religious belief and fervor, not violence.” But extremists have distorted the meaning of jihad, so it now has a connotation of violence in the service of a religious purpose.

The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend This statement is extraordinary given the fact that Kurtzer is a very senior diplomat, having held the post of Ambassador to Egypt just prior to going on to Tel Aviv. He is also an Orthodox Jew who is not shy of criticizing the extreme anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic views held by certain Arab circles. But Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rarely grants the United States’ highest representative in Israel an official audience.

The ambassador’s comments are an acknowledgment of what any serious Middle East observers knows: Hamas has always been seen as a tool by which Israel could undermine the nationalist movement led by Palestinian Authority President and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat. Similar statements by Arafat have been dismissed by Israel as “cranky” propaganda. In an interview with the Dec. 11 Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Arafat said,

“We are doing everything to stop the violence. But Hamas is a creature of Israel which at the time of Prime Minister [Yitzhak] Shamir [the late 1980s, when Hamas arose], gave them money and more than 700 institutions, among them schools, universities and mosques. Even [former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak] Rabin ended up admitting it, when I charged him with it, in the presence of [Egpytian President Hosni] Mubarak.”

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marie
marie
3 months ago

Obviously they have Israelis in control of the “Hamas” groups. You cannot penetrate two giant wall borders with 24 hours security with non-stop monitoring with teams and the walls set to autoshoot anytime at anything (even cats) and somehow have everyone in unison leave their IDF monitoring duties and border guard stations which they never did before and many later get killed suspiciously who came out and said it was orchestrated. The roads in Israel used were main roads that were always busy and closed off right before. Gaza lacks the facilities for any of this to happen on their accord without help from Israel. Not to mention the idiot Israelis dressed as Hamas with masks (why would they wear masks when idf is them anyways) forgot to ditch all their IDF clothing among many other things. They are trying to make the greater Israel they said with the map of “the greater Israel,” they presented a few days right before the war showing Gaza gone to Israel and parts of Egypt Lebanon etc. There’s too much evidence. It’s so obvious to others who study it but not to idf so I’ll just leave them with this:
you Israel guys are missing your frontal lobes. It’s researched, the whole higher IQ thing doesn’t stand up, you will go down for a few reasons. You go to the universities having degrees because Americans pay your way ignorantly. They will raise hell when they find out how much and how blatantly you’ve leeched. Next. Your own elite have to kill a big mass of you off to reach their desired numbers of slave to master. This is most of you. They will not keep you small fry. You will be dead as the hated goyim you slaughter and you are being used as pawns and sacrifices. Your only option to stay alive is to give up your goyim slave dreams and drop your religion of hate and alert the goys or take out your superiors, the bankers and elite but you lack the will power to go that far so spreading truth is your only salvation. Killing everyone, going to war, you dig your own future grave.

john
john
3 months ago
Reply to  marie

Obviously you’ve grown more insane making up little stories to bolster your very dark yet very stupid Zion is evil (N**i teaching protocols of Zion)

marie
marie
2 months ago
Reply to  john

Dear undies for pen1s (Zion means peni$ in Hebrew) the kingdom of p***s, how amazing. How come you guys call the bird and p***s the same thing? Is that why it’s called ‘flipping the bird’ when you flip someone off? You say I’m insane and lie but you cannot state one thing I’ve said being false. This is a very Jewish tactic, I’m guessing your nose is bent. How do I know the streets used were busy? How do I know what IDF is issued to wear? How do I know those kids being kidnapped were not Jewish kids like the American need started but they were Palestinian kids? Easy they did not look Jewish and They spoke Arabic. So let’s get it out of the way, your news stations lie about everything. Next. Let’s start with basics, I’ve visited the place many times and am very good friends with people living there their whole lives. We know people in IDF and know people in Gaza. These People I converse with are not Muslim or Jewish. They can see both groups mental illnesses. So what I know is a combination of being in Israel and knowing natives who are not biased and some who are and seeing the walls. Go ahead, where did I lie? Want to speak to me in Hebrew? How about we talk about why I think Jews are evil and how that makes me completely sane. The Khabbalah, the Talmud are open books. You cannot pretend the Jewish religion is good. The Jews are very proud of the man who raped the Palestinians in the ahole with a stick until it fractured his spine and killed him. He gets standing ovation the police celebrate with him and he’s now want to make rape legal publicly. Anyone Jewish and knowing in religion are vile. Anyone supporting IDF are vile, or ignorant or both. Would you like me to quote some passages to prove it? If you are Jewish you know you better shut up because once I start exposing your beliefs, and you know what I’m talking about (goyim baby rape for one) the rest of the world would chew you up and s**t you out. Is it sane to rape babies ? It’s it so crazy that I can’t support a people who believe in this kind of crap and who are slaughtering babies? My friend in IDF was ordered to shoot a baby and mother on a balcony. He didn’t and he got into trouble. Go ahead and dare me John, I’ll expose everything and unlike everyone else death threats for me don’t work.

lgageharleya
lgageharleya
2 months ago
Reply to  marie

Full respect, Marie. Truth.

lgageharleya
lgageharleya
2 months ago
Reply to  marie

Live by the sword, die by the sword

GatesSmasher
GatesSmasher
3 months ago

There should be more thought-provoking cartoons like this. Thanking the God of Abraham and Moses that the truth is being exposed, and let’s pray for every dark deed of the Pharisees and their web of lies to be made known.

Caramella Arden
Caramella Arden
3 months ago

They are both brothers in arms. It’s the poor innocent people being slaughtered which horrifies me. Why aren’t they targeting the rich ones hiding out in Qatar when they have all the necessary equipment.

rick
rick
3 months ago

This is making way for the third temple. Destroy the Al-Asqa mosque in the way.

Last edited 3 months ago by rick