Hamas

Gezien het nepotisme en de corruptie onder de Fatah leiders en de continue uitbreiding van de Israelische nederzettingen is het niet verwonderlijk dat de Palestijnen voor Hamas hebben gekozen, overigens een beweging die in het begin 'gesteund' werd door Israel. De Amerikaanse onderzoeksjournalist Robert Dreyfuss zei daarover in de uitzending van Democracy Now tegen de journaliste Amy Goodman: 'starting in 1967, the Israelis began to encourage or allow the Islamists in the Gaza and West Bank areas, among the Palestinian exiled population, to flourish. The statistics are really quite staggering. In Gaza, for instance, between 1967 and 1987, when Hamas was founded, the number of mosques tripled in Gaza from 200 to 600. And a lot of that came with money flowing from outside Gaza, from wealthy conservative Islamists in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere. But, of course, none of this could have happened without the Israelis casting an approving eye upon it. And during these years, during that 20-year span, the Hamas organization was a bitter opponent of Palestinian nationalism, clashed repeatedly with the P.L.O. and with Fatah, of course, refused to participate in the P.L.O. umbrella. And just as during the ‘50s and ‘60s, the Muslim Brotherhood fought against the Nasserists, the Baath Party, the communists and the rest of the Arab left, in the 1970s and ‘80s, the Muslim Brotherhood fought against the Palestinian national movement. Now that's not even a surprise, you know. In 1970, when the king of Jordan launched his massive counter-offensive against the Palestinians there in that event called Black September, the Muslim Brotherhood was a strong supporter of the king and actually backed his effort, which resulted in thousands of Palestinians killed in a virtual civil war in Jordan. So there's plenty of evidence that the Israeli intelligence services, especially Shin Bet and the military occupation authorities, encouraged the growth of the Muslim Brotherhood and the founding of Hamas. There are many examples and incidents of that.' Zie: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/26/151252 Misschien stopt de terreur van de Israelische staat waardoor de contraterreur van Hamas ophoudt. Maar als Israel doorgaat met het stelen van Palestijns land en weigert zich uit de Westoever terug te trekken dan zal het conflict doorgaan tot beide partijen niet meer kunnen.