Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Hey Ron Paul: Israel did not create Hamas

One nasty myth about Hamas is that Israel created it as a counter to the Palestine Liberation Organization. "No they did not," Yid With Lid told me the next day at BlogCon in regards to an Occupy Denver protester who tried to peddle that tale to me.

But the occupier isn't running for president. Ron Paul is. And the Texas congressman told the same story on the floor of the House in 2009.

The Lid discovered the video.



Related post:

Video: Norman Finkelstein's supporter with Occupy Denver and Israel's "creation" of Hamas

UPDATE December 28: The Paul people are attacking bloggers who posted the 2009 "Israel created Hamas video." Hot Air's Ed Morrissey shoots down that pathetic arguement here.

Also, Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Ron Paul is wrong. On this issue and on many others.

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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:52 AM

    So you just determine it and call it a fact? Why do you think he is wrong. Just stating X is wrong doesn't make it wrong, you have to say why. Can you please say why Ron Paul is wrong? Can you list some books, articles, sources?

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  2. Anonymous11:22 AM

    Looks like the Wall Street Journal must be wrong, too:

    "How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas"
    By ANDREW HIGGINS - Moshav Tekuma, Israel * JANUARY 24, 2009
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123275572295011847.html

    "Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's 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 Israel's destruction.

    Instead of trying to curb Gaza's 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 Arafat's Fatah. Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, even as he was laying the foundations for what would become Hamas. Sheikh Yassin continues to inspire militants today; during the recent war in Gaza, Hamas fighters confronted Israeli troops with "Yassins," primitive rocket-propelled grenades named in honor of the cleric.

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  3. Marathon Pundit5:03 PM

    I'm familiar with the article and its content. Simply put he is wrong, the two of you are wrong, and Ron Paul is wrong. Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, which Israel did not create.

    Here's something for you to chew on.

    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/27/paul-hamas-was-encouraged-and-really-started-by-israel/

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  4. Anonymous11:02 PM

    I think the debate lies in the semantics of the word create. Of course Israel didn't literally create Hamas, however they created the situation in which Hamas could grow and evolve. So in a sense they created the Hamas of today because of their policies.

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