More disinformation from the kook-burger fringe
The biggest source I found that makes this claim is a video and article from The Intercept, a media outlet that has a left wing bias. If you watch the video and listen to the tone of the presenter, you can tell that he is almost gleeful in trying to make the point that anything that Hamas perpetrates against Israel is Israel's own doing.
But let's just follow the evidence they present, and see if it adds up to the claim they are making: A quote from Yitzhak Segev, a former Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s, taken from a book called "
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land". In there (taken from Google Books search), I find this quote: "...Segev once told me how he financed the Islamic movement as a counterweight to the PLO and the Communists. "The Israeli government gave me a budget, and the military budget gives to the mosques", he said. (That early funding helped nourish the seeds of Hamas and other Muslim movements that used terrorism to undermine the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.)" A quote from Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, in an article from 2009 in the Wall Street Journal. The quote is as follows: "“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation."Both those points seem pretty damning at first, but if you actually read the WSJ article from 2009, you get a much deeper analysis of what happened, an analysis which does not support the conclusion being
The primary source supporting this claim is a video and article from The Intercept, known for its left-wing bias. The presenter's tone suggests a strong bias, insinuating that Israel bears responsibility for any actions Hamas takes against it. However, examining the evidence they present:
- Yitzhak Segev, a former Israeli military governor in Gaza, is quoted from the book "Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land," stating thaIsrael financed the Islamic movement as a counterbalance to the PLO and Communists, inadvertently nurturing groups like Hamas.
- Avner Cohen, a former Israeli official, is cited in a 2009 Wall Street Journal article, expressing regret that Hamas is an outcome of Israeli actions.
Despite these quotes appearing damning initially, a closer look at the 2009 WSJ article provides a more nuanced analysis, undermining The Intercept's conclusion.
And, BTW, THIS is why you've exposed yourself as an antisemite.
Rather than ever blaming the Arab monsters who invaded these Israeli homes and raped murdered, tortured and kidnapped these innocent people to continue to try to lead the gullible to the false conclusion that Israel is responsible for what happened October 7th
www.camera.org
