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You mean the hamas created and promoted by the Israeli government?[0] > Instead of trying to curb Gaza's Islamists from the outset, says Mr. Cohen, Israel for

You mean the hamas created and promoted by the Israeli government?[0] > 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. Sheikh Yassin continues to inspire militants today; during the recent war in Gaza, Hamas fighters confronted Israeli troops with "Yassins," primitive rocket-propelled grenades named in honor of the cleric. [1] [0] https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/ https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-c... [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20090926212507/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123275572295011847.html http://web.archive.org/web/20090926212507/http://online.wsj....

ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
> You mean the hamas created and promoted by the Israeli government? Yes. Every power employs divide-and-rule as a policy to control their opponents. When their opponents fight each other, a lot of their resources would be too tied up to fight Israel. The sooner the West realises that jihadis are not their allies and cannot be controlled, the better.
- cherry_tree 3y ago
  By the west here, you mean Israel?
  - ta_vf7xjd34cc 3y ago
    > By the west here, you mean Israel? And the US, which did very similar things when it funded Osama Bin Laden and the Mujahideen during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.