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Israel now admits to funding Hamas?

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=17...

"The office of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admitted on Wednesday that it is allowing the transfer of hundreds of millions of shekels to the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip every month.

Most of the funds enter Gaza in currency exchanges for the dollars and euros Hamas smuggles into the territory following fund-raising trips to Iran and other supportive Middle East regimes."

This is sheer genius on the part of Israel really. Fund money to the entity which you claim is your mortal enemy, have them use the weaponry from said funding to attack you with wildly inaccurate rockets, and use that as rationale to continually oppress and subjugate Palestinians under the guise of "security" and launch massive slaughtering campaigns in the territory you occupy.

This is not even including the fact that the Israeli intelligence agency supported the rise of Hamas in the early 80s as a counterweight to Arafat's PLO.

Thoughts?

Update:

The whole point is to keep Hamas running. It is easy to vilify Hamas and use it as a base for launching an incursion.

And look into the support the Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, gave the early Hamas leaders when it was just starting out in the 70s and early 80s.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    to Roque

    Israel DOES NOT supply water to south lebanon, are you out of your mind ? I am from that area, and the Israeli always try to steal the waters from the Lebanese rivers, it is documented by the UN observers !!!

    You guys just like to twist facts and straight lie??

    Israel has been holding money which belong to the Palestinian Government, money needed to run Gaza as a municipality, this money is collected taxes and donations from the Europeans. Israel has been confiscating ( and collecting interest) on this money for years, and now they are releasing part of it to Gaza.

    And you call this as Israel funding Hamas??

    Unbelievable, this is just unbelievable.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Israel at the moment is attempting (well they are succeeding, so not really an attempt) to divide and conquer.

    In the words of Avi Shlaim (renowned jewish historian and Oxford professor)

    "Israel likes to portray itself as an island of democracy in a sea of authoritarianism. Yet Israel has never in its entire history done anything to promote democracy on the Arab side and has done a great deal to undermine it. Israel has a long history of secret collaboration with reactionary Arab regimes to suppress Palestinian nationalism. Despite all the handicaps, the Palestinian people succeeded in building the only genuine democracy in the Arab world with the possible exception of Lebanon. In January 2006, free and fair elections for the Legislative Council of the Palestinian Authority brought to power a Hamas-led government. Israel, however, refused to recognise the democratically elected government, claiming that Hamas is purely and simply a terrorist organisation."

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/07/gaza-i...

  • 1 decade ago

    Some of the money are palestinian taxes that Israel use to transfer to the Palestinian Authority. Israel also provided weapons to the Fatah, the same guns that they use against Israel but in that case there was no other option but to help the palestinian authority to have guns so they can put order in their territory (instead they used those weapons against Israel).

    Did you know that Israel provides water to Gaza and also to South Lebanon, where Hezbollah is located? so actually Israel provides water to Hezbollah, its enemy.

    Middle East is a relation of hate and love, most hate comes from arab countries, Israel sometimes need to do things that go against their interest with the intension of improving its relation with its enemies or their people.

    Israel has attended palestinians in Israel Hospitals for free, has attended Iranians as well as people from Lebanon.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    They are not killing their own civilians for an excuse to start a war. They try to send humanitarian aid, but hamas STEALS it all for themselves. But, at least according to the completly incomptent Israeli PM, its worth it if even some civilinas will be help. And if it was a "massive slaughtering campaign" why would they continue to send them aid, then pull out when accomplished thier objective??

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    perhaps you will desire to improve your circle of pals. Dunno who you're speaking to, inspite of the undeniable fact that it is *no one* i've got ever met. And it is not that straightforward. purely think of, in the previous 1950, in the previous the widespread-day Israel existed, there have been people who did no longer enroll in the Torah or the Talmud residing upon its soil. it is kinda no longer basic to no longer be pissed off while Western international places superimpose an Israeli state in a your center jap area upon cultures that isn't have been as invested in a Jewish u . s . a . because of the fact the Jews.

  • 1 decade ago

    Hey, they block all financial aid into Gaza, Hamas gets to yell about "evil zionists" again. They open any kind of financial aid, Hamas steals it anyway. Cursed if you do it, cursed if you don't.

  • 1 decade ago

    Wow.

    This is like a new head spinner.

    I don't know what to think or believe from this.

    I'll look more into it.

    It may be a fake, I dunno.

    It's just hard to believe.

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