Israel Cabinet 7 for and 7 against toppling Arafat....plus Israel Turns Palestinian Towns into Prisons

[Bryan Atinsky]

Yes this is true...it is well documented in the book (as I remember)
"Intifada" by Ze'ev Shciff and Ehud Ya'ari...and you can't get two more
establishment Israeli jounalists as them...Ehud Ya'ari is the Arab Affairs
correspondent for Channel 2 news in Israel (in Israel an Arab Affairs
correspondent is always an Israeli telling us what he thinks the Arabs
think...more or less Israeli government spokespeople, and I remember Israel
Shahak accused him of actually being a front for Israeli Intelligence in the
media).  Anyway their book "Intifada" was published in 1989 or 1990, and
there is a section discussing the Israeli governments early backing of Hamas
against the secular groups in the PLO...playing one off against the other.

Bryan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cian O'Connor" <cian_oconnor at yahoo.co.uk>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 9:04 PM
Subject: RE: Israel Cabinet 7 for and 7 against toppling Arafat....plus
Israel Turns Palestinian Towns into Prisons


> Is it true that Mossad backed Hamas in the early days
> to discredit the PLO? I've often seen this stated, but
> never actually seen any evidence to back this up.
>