|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: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.
|| >
||
The question has been answered before:
http://shamash.org/listarchives/pjml/010225
Israel gave major to aid to Hamas http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=162747
Saturday, 24 February 2001 11:28 (ET)
Israel gave major to aid to Hamas By RICHARD SALE, Terrorism Correspondent
NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, speaking of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas recently described it as "the deadliest terrorist group that we have ever had to face."
Active in Gaza and the West Bank Hamas wants to liberate all of Palestine and establish a radical Islamic state in place of Israel. It has gained notoriety with its assassinations, car bombs and other acts of terrorism.
But Sharon had left something out.
Israel and Hamas may currently be locked in deadly combat, but, according to several current and former U.S. intelligence officials, beginning in the late 1970s, Tel Aviv gave direct and indirect financial aid to Hamas over a period of years.
Israel "aided Hamas directly -- the Israelis wanted to use it as a counterbalance to the PLO," said Tony Cordesman, Middle East analyst for the Center for Strategic Studies.
Israel's support for Hamas "was a direct attempt to divide and dilute support for a strong, secular PLO by using a competing religious alternative," said a former senior CIA official.
According to documents obtained from the Israel-based Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT) by UPI, Hamas evolved from cells of the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928. (...) -----------------------------
Hakki Alacakaptan
|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
|| [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of James Heartfield
||
|| In message
|| <NEBBLFAOEKFDFJCKOHILMEACCJAA.nucleus at superonline.com>, Hakki
|| Alacakaptan <nucleus at superonline.com> writes
||
|| quoting
||
|| >Paul Vanden Baviere
||
|| >Hamas initially
|| >nevertheless received Israel's support
||
|| I remember hearing this before, but never found any published evidence.
|| Does anyone have any more supporting references?
||
|| --
|| James Heartfield
||