Israel vs. Gaza: The Big Picture

[thegente]

Here is some info you won't see on Fox, MSNBC or CNN...

 

 

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-14/israel-v-gaza-big-picture

 

Preface: What is needed is a cease-fire on ALL sides, as the UN Security Council is demanding ..

 

Americans only get filtered news from the mainstream media. So here’s the big picture:

 

• All 6 Former Israeli Security Chiefs Slam Occupation of Palestine

• Holocaust Survivors Criticize Israeli Policy Towards Palestinians

• War in Gaza = War Over Natural Gas?

• Israel and the U.S. CREATED Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda

• support Terrorists ?" rel="external nofollow">Mainstream Reports: The U.S. and Israel support Terrorists

• The U.S. Is Supporting the Most Violent Muslim Terrorists In Order to Wage War for Oil

• Israeli Interior Minister: “The Goal of the Operation Is to Send Gaza Back to the Middle Ages”, “Destroying All the Infrastructure Including Roads and Water”

• Israel Is Bombing Gaza Back to the Stone Age to Get Hamas … But ISIS – NOT HAMAS – Claims Credit for Attacks Against Israel

• Hamas Shouldn’t Fire Rockets … But Israel Has Violated HUNDREDS of UN Resolutions

• Did Anyone Live In Palestine Prior to the Formation of Israel?

• Israeli, Saudi and American Leaders Say Arabs Are Not Ready for Democracy

• Gaza War Isn’t On the Other Side of the World: The U.S. is Right in the Middle

• War In Gaza: Why Now?

• Facts All US Citizens Need to Know About Israel and Palestine

• CNN: Palestinians Want to Die

 

By the way, here's a little history you never learned from MSNBCNNABCCBSFOX news:

• Big Banks Funded the Nazis

• The Nazis’ Murder of Jews, Communists and Gypsies In Gas Chambers Was an AMERICAN Idea

Postscript: Former Israeli Minister: Calling people who criticize Israeli policy “anti-semitic. It’s a trick … we always use it”

[Thaiexpat]

Very informative information. I hope more people will understand what is really happening there. Thanks for positing this. Dunno, just saying......Peace someday

[thegente]

Thx Thaiexpat...there's so much more going on than what we are told from our corporate/govt controlled propaganda outlets...have a good one!

[flatdawg]

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Did Anyone Live In Palestine Prior to the Formation of Israel?

And all this time we've been told this was a land with no people.

What a place... Jews, Christians and Muslims living in peace.

[Maggie123]

Thank You Gente... Here Is One Of Your Many Excellent Links... Seems like the soup du jure of the day.

 

Israel and the U.S. CREATED Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda

Posted on November 18, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog

 

Creating the Enemies We Now Fight Against

 

We’ve extensively documented that the U.S. and Israel created Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups in an attempt to fight other enemies.

 

Larry Johnson – a counterterrorism official at the U.S. State Department – says:

 

"As one example, Israel helped create Hamas.

The Israelis are their own worst enemies when it comes to fighting terrorism. They are like a guy who sets fire to his hair and then tries to put it out by hitting it with a hammer. They do more to incite and sustain terrorism than curb it."

 

United Press International reported in 2002:

 

According to several current and former U.S. intelligence officials, beginning in the late 1970s, Tel Aviv gave direct and indirect financial aid to Hamas over a period of years.Israel “aided Hamas directly — the Israelis wanted to use it as a counterbalance to the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization),” said Tony Cordesman, Middle East analyst for the Center for Strategic Studies.

 

Israel’s support for Hamas “was a direct attempt to divide and dilute support for a strong, secular PLO by using a competing religious alternative,” said a former senior CIA official.

 

According to documents United Press International obtained from the Israel-based Institute for Counter Terrorism, Hamas evolved from cells of the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928. Islamic movements in Israel and Palestine were “weak and dormant” until after the 1967 Six Day War in which Israel scored a stunning victory over its Arab enemies.

 

After 1967, a great part of the success of the Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood was due to their activities among the refugees of the Gaza Strip. The cornerstone of the Islamic movements success was an impressive social, religious, educational and cultural infrastructure, called Da’wah, that worked to ease the hardship of large numbers of Palestinian refugees, confined to camps, and many who were living on the edge.

 

“Social influence grew into political influence,” first in the Gaza Strip, then on the West Bank, said an administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

 

According to ICT papers, Hamas was legally registered in Israel in 1978 by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the movement’s spiritual leader, as an Islamic Association by the name Al-Mujamma al Islami, which widened its base of supporters and sympathizers by religious propaganda and social work.

 

According to U.S. administration officials, funds for the movement came from the oil-producing states and directly and indirectly from Israel. The PLO was secular and leftist and promoted Palestinian nationalism. Hamas wanted to set up a transnational state under the rule of Islam, much like Khomeini’s Iran.

 

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Israel was certainly funding the group at that time. One U.S. intelligence source who asked not to be named said that not only was Hamas being funded as a “counterweight” to the PLO, Israeli aid had another purpose: “To help identify and channel towards Israeli agents Hamas members who were dangerous terrorists.”

 

In addition, by infiltrating Hamas, Israeli informers could only listen to debates on policy and identify Hamas members who “were dangerous hard-liners,” the official said.

 

In the end, as Hamas set up a very comprehensive counterintelligence system, many collaborators with Israel were weeded out and shot. Violent acts of terrorism became the central tenet, and Hamas, unlike the PLO, was unwilling to compromise in any way with Israel, refusing to acquiesce in its very existence.

 

But even then, some in Israel saw some benefits to be had in trying to continue to give Hamas support: “The thinking on the part of some of the right-wing Israeli establishment was that Hamas and the others, if they gained control, would refuse to have any part of the peace process and would torpedo any agreements put in place,” said a U.S. government official who asked not to be named.

 

“Israel would still be the only democracy in the region for the United States to deal with,” he said.

 

All of which disgusts some former U.S. intelligence officials."

 

 

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Edited August 6, 2014 by Maggie123