----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey Fisher" <jfisher at igc.org> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 8:23 AM Subject: Re: Hitchens: kill 'em before they start
> bingo. i think this is very easy to forget, but it is absolutely
> critical to understanding the nature of the situation. remember, israel
> fomented *precisely* religious palestinian activism in the form of
> hamas, meant as a counterweight to the secular nationalism of the plo.
> i wonder how hitch fits that into his little schema.
>
> j
The Hamas Israel thought it was supporting turned into a rather different beast. It would be nuts to suggest that Israel wanted to foment are organization of rejectionist suicide bombers to discredit the PLO.