Israel Created Hamas to Avoid Peace

Israel does not want peace. Israel created Hamas as an pretext to wage war on the Palestinians. For example, on May 18, 2011 a Hamas MP said all Israelis must be annihilated. The rockets raining down on Israel, mere peashooters compared to Israel’s air force, provide another excuse. So does the “terror” attack on a Tel Aviv bus today. 

From 9/6/11by David Livingstone(abridged by henrymakow.com)

The Israelis created Hamas.  But before we explore why,
let’s be clear  that Israel does not want peace.  They want all of
Palestine, and their belligerent settlement practices confirm that.

But the Israelis are posturing as being willing to talk “peace”,
only to actually stall that peace process, so as advance the further colonization of Palestine.

So anything that can be offered as an excuse, will be.  The most
convenient ploy, presented with the sycophantic assistance of the media,
is that of “terrorism”.

The masses are naive, and fail to suspect the Machiavellian
extremes that certain leaders will resort to. 
This includes creating a false enemy, in this case, Hamas, whereby the
right-wing leadership of the Israelis can point the finger to some
“enemy” to blame for supposedly stalling the
process.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The West’s sponsorship of Islamic terrorism is nothing new.  After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in
1924, the British and Americans filled the vacuum by
providing their own versions of “Islamic” leaders.  This started with
the creation of the Muslim Brotherhood through a
grant from the British.  

Under British sponsorship, the Brotherhood
today represents a powerful force in the
Islamic world, and is behind almost
every act of terror in the name of Islam. 

More correctly, the Brotherhood has been a tool shared by numerous
Western intelligence agencies, starting with the Nazis, followed by the
CIA, but also the Russians, French, Germans and Israelis.

Since the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, the Muslim Brotherhood has been used to
rally naive Muslims under the banner of
Islam.  In the post-war era, the Americans and others have been able to manage
the Brotherhood like a rabid dog on a leash to keep the “atheist Communist threat”  at bay.

With the collapse of the Cold War however, the Brotherhood has been
used as the bogey man which
the Americans can chase into the Middle East and
Central Asia, starting with Iraq and Afghanistan.

Israel’s long-standing relationship with the
Muslim Brotherhood was instrumental in the founding of an offshoot organization, Hamas.

According to Robert Dreyfuss, author of “Devil’s Game: How the
United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam”:

“And beginning in 1967 through the late 1980s, Israel
helped the Muslim Brotherhood establish itself in the occupied
territories.  It assisted Ahmed Yassin, the leader of the Brotherhood,
in creating Hamas, betting that its Islamist character would weaken the
PLO.”

According to Charles Freeman, former US
ambassador to Saudi Arabia, “Israel started Hamas. It was a project of
Shin Bet [Isreali domestic intelligence agency], which had a feeling
that they could use it to hem in the PLO.”

One aspect of that strategy was the
creation of the Village Leagues, over which Yassin and the Brotherhood
exercised much influence.  Israel trained about 200 members of the Leagues and recruited many paid
informers.

New York Times Reporter David Shipler cites the
Israeli military governor of Gaza as boasting that Israel expressly
financed the fundamentalists against the PLO:

“Politically speaking, Islamic fundamentalists were
sometimes regarded as useful to Israel, because they had conflicts with
the secular supporters of the PLO.  Violence between the two groups
erupted occasionally on West Bank university campuses. Israeli
military governor of the Gaza Strip, Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev,
once told me how he had financed the Islamic movement as a counterweight
to the PLO and the Communists.  ‘The Israeli Government gave me a
budget and the military government gives to the mosques,’ he said.”

As Dreyfuss notes, “during the 1980s, the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza
and the West Bank did not support resistance to the Israeli occupation. 
Most of its energy went to fighting the PLO, especially its more
left-wing factions, on university campuses.”

After the Palestinian uprising of 1987, the PLO accused Hamas and
Yassin of acting “with the direct support of reactionary Arab regimes…
in collusion with the Israeli occupation.” 

Yasser Arafat complained to
an Italian newspaper: “Hamas is a creation of Israel, which at the time
of Prime Minister Shamir, gave them money and more than 700
institutions, among them schools, universities and mosques.”  

Arafat
also maintained that Israeli prime minister Rabin admitted to him in the
presence of Hosni Mubarak that Israel had supported Hamas.

Essentially, as analyst Ray Hannania pointed out, in “Sharon’s Terror
Child”, published in Counterpunch, “undermining the peace process has
always been the real target of Hamas and has played into the political
ambitions of Likud.  Every time Israeli and Palestinian negotiators
appeared ready to take a major step forward achieving peace, an act of
Hamas terrorism has scuttled the peace process and pushed the two sides
apart.”

In “Hamas and the Transformation of Political Islam in Palestine”, for Current History, Sara Roy wrote:

“Some analysts maintain that while Hamas leaders are
being targeted, Israel is simultaneously pursuing its old strategy of
promoting Hamas over the secular nationalist factions as a way of
ensuring the ultimate demise of the [Palestinian Authority], and as an
effort to extinguish Palestinian nationalism once and for all.”

CONCLUSION

The Muslim Brotherhood, and its many manifestations
like Hamas,Al Qaeda and bin Laden, serve as an ever-present and manufactured “terrorist”
threat, used constantly as a pretext to justify repressive measures at
home and expanded imperialistic objectives abroad.

Because, despite all the rhetoric about
the threat of “political Islam”, unbeknownst to the general public, the
manipulation of the Muslim Brotherhood throughout the world is still a
mainstay of American foreign policy.

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