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To: EinNYC

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123275572295011847.html

“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, even as he was laying the foundations for what would become Hamas.


35 posted on 11/22/2023 7:46:50 PM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (Right Wing Jews destabilize Muslim countries, Left Wing Jews bring the Refugees to the West)
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To: Tea Party Terrorist
“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.

That's one guy's opinion. I don't think there are many that would agree.

44 posted on 11/22/2023 9:14:58 PM PST by EinNYC
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Posting more propaganda to validate your propaganda…rich. Why not head over to DimocRAT Underground for more training, you’re letting your fellow trolls down with your crappy work.


58 posted on 11/23/2023 5:36:50 AM PST by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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