[lbo-talk] Hamas "a project of Shin Bet" (was: Hezbollah vs IDF)

[Michael Hoover]

On 10/15/06, Colin Brace <cb at lim.nl> wrote:
> On 10/14/06, Seth Kulick <skulick at seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> > "In large part this scourge was self-inflicted, for the Civil Administration
> > had contributed considerably to the development of the Muslim groups that came
> > to the fore soon after the start of the intifada.
> > many Israeli staff officers believed that the rise of
> > fundamentalism in Gaza could be exploited to weaken the power of the PLO.
>
> Robert Dreyfuss, in his book "Devil's Game",
> published earlier this year,  devotes a chapter to Hamas, and he
> argues that Hamas originated in Israeli-Jordanian efforts in the late
> 1970s to foster Muslim Brotherhood-allied groups in in Syria and
> Palestine with the aim of undermining the Assad government and the
> PLO.
>
> Quote:
> "Israel started Hamas," says Charles Freeman, the veteran US diplomat
> and former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia. "It was a project of Shin
> Bet [the Israeli domestic intelligence agency], which had a feeling
> that they could use them to hem in the PLO". (p. 191)
Colin Brace
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i have pointed above out a number of times over the years on several
e-lists, have asked without answer whether hama leadership
acknowledges israel's role in organization's early years, asking
again...   mh