Hamas :Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad
by Matthew Levitt http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300110537
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The French Communist Party 'sez>...And in this regard, Hamas and Ariel Sharon, see eye to eye; they are exactly on the same wave length. http://globalresearch.ca/articles/ZER403A.html Hamas is a Creation of Mossad L'Humanité, Summer 2002.
Hamas history tied to Israel By Richard Sale UPI Terrorism Correspondent United Press International June 18, 2002 http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=18062002-051845-8272r
In the wake of a suicide bomb attack Tuesday on a crowded Jerusalem city bus that killed 19 people and wounded at least 70 more, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, took credit for the blast.
Israeli officials called it the deadliest attack in Jerusalem in six years.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon immediately vowed to fight "Palestinian terror" and summoned his cabinet to decide on a military response to the organization that Sharon had once described 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 is has gained notoriety with its assassinations, car bombs and other acts of terrorism.
But Sharon 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 (Palestinian Liberation Organization)," said Tony Cordesman, Middle East analyst for the Center for Strategic Studies.