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Originally posted by Skittle
Wow, is this news to you folks?
I thought of all people ATS members would be the most enlightened. Even we know this from media and other outlets. Hamas was created by Israel and its nothing of news.
Well, atleast I know this from ages. Giving thanks to teachers giving us an unbiased view of the world.
Originally posted by Skittle
reply to post by tjeffersonsghost
Ron Paul posesses the knowledge of the average academic European citizen regarding politics. If your country relies on this one particular person.... youre in deep deep trouble.
Originally posted by Skittle
Wow, is this news to you folks?
I thought of all people ATS members would be the most enlightened. Even we know this from media and other outlets. Hamas was created by Israel and its nothing of news.
Well, atleast I know this from ages. Giving thanks to teachers giving us an unbiased view of the world.
It must be hard when your media is so biased.
By Richard Sale
06/18/02 "UPI" -- --- 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."
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.
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.