Guys, stop saying this. This is not a pro-Palestine position.
This is historically not true and inherently anti-Palestinian because it is based on the racist ideology that Palestinians can’t speak or organize for themselves.
If Hamas are so reprehensible and akin to ISIS, why did Israel help to create them?
“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation.” - Avner Cohen, former Israeli religious affairs official.
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Also Israel did NOT support Hamas per se.
Israel was the military occupation in Gaza when Hamas (before it was known as Hamas) wanted to build charitable and cultural societies and orgs including Gaza’s first university in the late 70s.
There was no way to start these orgs without an Israeli occupation permit.
That is not support. But rivals like FATEh always falsely cited that as Israel establishing Hamas or supporting Hamas.
Around the time Hamas had a secret movement and even a small military arm that came after Israeli collaborators in the early 80s and even bought guns to fight Israel back. This is when their founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was arrested.
Liberal using the “Israel founded or funded Hamas” argument is racist and deprives Palestinians of their agency.
It’s not the argument you think it is.
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