Ain’t Nick’s Boomerang
Soccer Dad on Jan 08 2009 at 4:21 pm | Filed under: Hamas
Nicholas Kristof - I’ll call him “Ain’t Nick” - on the NYT, The Gaza Boomerang:
When Hamas was founded in 1987, Israel was mostly concerned with Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement and figured that a religious Palestinian organization would help undermine Fatah. Israel calculated that all those Muslim fundamentalists would spend their time praying in the mosques, so it cracked down on Fatah and allowed Hamas to rise as a counterforce.
It’s a common talking point among Israel’s critics, that Israel had a hand in creating Hamas. But no one really has given a definitive account of how that happened….
(Read the rest at Soccer Dad)
