Hamas, to my great regret, is Israels creation, says Mr. Cohen, a - TopicsExpress



          

Hamas, to my great regret, is Israels creation, says Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who worked in Gaza for more than two decades. Responsible for religious affairs in the region until 1994, Mr. Cohen watched the Islamist movement take shape, muscle aside secular Palestinian rivals and then morph into what is today Hamas, a militant group that is sworn to Israels destruction. Instead of trying to curb Gazas Islamists from the outset, says Mr. Cohen, Israel for years tolerated and, in some cases, encouraged them as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its dominant faction, Yasser Arafats Fatah.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:42:07 +0000

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