OCTOBER 23, 2023
Israel’s Role in Hamas’ Creation and its RetaliatoryGenocide in Gaza
BY NAZIA NAZAR
Hamas’s recent attacks on Israel, in the presence of one ofthe best intelligence outfits in the world, has once again brought to mind thestatements made by certain Israeli officials regarding Israel’s covert role inthe formation of Hamas, which is an Arabic acronym for “Islamic ResistanceMovement.”
Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who served as an Israeli militarygovernor in Gaza in the early 1980s, had disclosed in an interview to the NewYork Times that he had contributed to financing the Palestinian Islamistmovement as a “counterweight” to Palestine Liberation Organization and theFatah party.
He further confessed that the Israeli government hadprovided him with a budget. A retired Israeli official Avner Cohen had alsogiven a similar statement during his interview to the Wall Street Journal onJan 24, 2009. “Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” he confessed
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