israel created hamas in the first place.   ears-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now -its-blown-up-in-our-faces/ > brig. gen. yitzhak segev, disclosing in 1981 that he had been given a budget for funding palestinian islamists to counter the rising power of palestinian secularists. hamas, a spin-off of the palestinian branch of the muslim brotherhood, was formally established with israels support soon after the first intifada flared in 1987 as an uprising against the israeli occupation of palestinian lands. > israels objective was 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.   tary/2023/11/21/world/israel-failed -policy/ israel setting its own attack dog on its own citizens for the sake of political expediency deserves to be condemned. unfortunately, as one might expect, no one in the western media wants to draw attention to this fact.
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