How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas By Andrew Higgins Jan. 24, 2009 12:01 am ET Full: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123275572295011847 Archive: https://archive.vn/BaByB How Israel helped create Hamas By Ishaan Tharoor July 30, 2014 at 11:31 a.m. CDT Full Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas/ Archive: https://archive.vn/bASb8 Official: Israel to allow Qatari payment to Hamas An Israeli official says Israel has approved the transfer of $15 million in Qatari aid to the Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip. By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press January 24, 2019, 9:42 AM Full: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/official-israel-qatari-payment-hamas-60595440 Archive: https://archive.vn/EKtSo Did you also know that Hamas — which is an Arabic acronym for “Islamic Resistance Movement” — would probably not exist today were it not for the Jewish state? That the Israelis helped turn a bunch of fringe Palestinian Islamists in the late 1970s into one of the world’s most notorious militant groups? That Hamas is blowback? Former Israeli official Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s, told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat. Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009 that Hamas is “Israel’s creation.” Hamas was the result of this, as Mehdi Hasan explains. First, the Israelis helped build up a militant strain of Palestinian political Islam, in the form of Hamas and its Muslim Brotherhood precursors; then, the Israelis switched tack and tried to bomb, besiege, and blockade it out of existence. Hosted by Mehdi Hasan (https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan), “How Israel Helped Create Hamas” is the fifth episode of a six-part Blowback series for The Intercept. Throughout this series, Mehdi Hasan examines key examples of blowback in greater detail and explores how foreign policy decisions by the U.S. and its allies often produce blowback and so-called unintended consequences. The Intercept is an investigative nonprofit news organization dedicated to producing fearless, adversarial journalism. We believe journalism should bring transparency and accountability to powerful governmental and corporate institutions. Subscribe to our channel: https://interc.pt/subscribe Website: https://theintercept.com/ Facebook: https://interc.pt/facebook Twitter: https://interc.pt/twitter