[Jhoffa_]

Israel's support for Hamas "was a direct attempt to divide and dilute support for a strong, secular PLO by using a competing religious alternative," said a former senior CIA official

Well, that worked out well now didn't it?

PS: I am not too keen on all the unnamed sources and stuff. If you are going to drop a bombshell like this it should be easily verifiable.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Well....I tried but the UPI search engine is a piece of garbarge. If you think the story is bogus, I would love to hear your evidence. It is instructive, however, that since this story appeared last year, nobody has made such a claim.