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Ten ways Israel keeps Hamas afloat
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| Contributor | Penguin |
| Last Edited | Penguin Mar 26, 2008 01:21am |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Media | Newspaper - Ha Aretz |
| News Date | Tuesday, March 25, 2008 07:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Say you really want Hamas to win the current installment of the 60 Year War between Israelis and Palestinians. What's the most direct, efficacious way to go about this?
Simple. Just do exactly what Israel does.
The student of history may at this point note that during the 1970s and much of the 1980s, Israeli defense officials, keen to foster a faith-based counterweight to the Marxist ideology of hardline armed groups such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, quietly but crucially aided the leaders of the Gaza branch of the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood - a group which, six days after the eruption of the first Palestinian uprising, was to found the Islamic Resistance Movement, whose acronym was Hamas.
But let us leave, for the moment, history aside. Let us look at what Israel is doing at present, and, as a result, the extent to which Hamas thrives. |
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