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"Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation," says Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who worked in Gaza for more than two decades. Responsible for religious affairs in the region until 1994, Mr. Cohen watched the Islamist movement take shape, muscle aside secular Palestinian rivals and then morph into what is today Hamas, a militant group that is sworn to Israel's destruction.
Instead of trying to curb Gaza's Islamists from the outset, says Mr. Cohen, Israel for years tolerated and, in some cases, encouraged them as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its dominant faction, Yasser Arafat's Fatah. Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin,
How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas
OUTSTADING POST! Thank you for enlightening us. Let us all unite together in giving Israel credit for creating both Isis & Hamas. And let us Americans help Israel to do all we can to get them to just kill each other. LET THERE BE PEACE ALREADY!
I think Isis and Hamas can turn on Israel and save us , the USA , 5 billion a year. Israel doesn't want peace and neither do you.