[Mb-civic] Blood And Oil.............

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Blood And Oil.............

http://www.ranknfile-ue.org/uen_bloodandoil.html


p.s.:  Make sure you read "Part 2" also while you're there.


ISRAEL BANKROLLS HAMAS

In the late 1970s, the Israeli government began providing direct and 
indirect funding to the Islamic Association, the parent organization of the 
Palestinian terrorist group, Hamas.

According to Tony Cordesman, Middle East analyst for the Center for 
Strategic Studies, "the Israelis wanted to use [Hamas] as a counterbalance 
to the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)." A former senior CIA 
official told journalist Richard Sale that Israeli support for Hamas "was a 
direct attempt to divide and dilute support for a strong, secular PLO by 
using a competing religious alternative."

An Israeli general reportedly told U.S. officials that he helped bankroll 
"Islamic movements as a counterweight to the PLO and communists."

The real goal, some observers believe, was to undermine prospects for 
negotiations that might give concessions to the Palestinians. The financial 
support of the Islamic Association/Hamas took place under the government 
formed in 1977 by the Likud Party, organized by Menachem Begin and other 
veterans of 1940s Jewish terrorist organizations.




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