The truth behind the social media anti-Israel lies.
Since these false claims that Israel created Hamas or that Netanyahu supported Hamas are circulating across social media, let’s address them.
Hamas is an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization founded in Egypt in the 1920s, before the rebirth of the State of Israel, but which now has a presence in Israel and in much of the world. In its early days it coordinated with the Nazis and received support from Nazi Germany.
The Gaza Strip used to be ruled by Egypt which helps explain the strength of Hamas in the area.
The Muslim Brotherhood operates in the United States and Europe under different names and front groups, such as CAIR. It also has terrorist organizations including arguably Al Qaeda, whose leaders have mostly been MB members, and which after Bin Laden was run by members of an Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood splinter group.
The Muslim Brotherhood operates under various identities inside Israel. There are two branches of the Islamic Movement, one of which has seats in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. Hamas initially resembled them, focusing on religion, social work and non-violent politics, before it gained strength and revealed its real true agenda.
This is how the Muslim Brotherhood tends to operate. It pretends to be political and non-violent until it can seize power.
The Israelis, like the Americans and Europeans, were initially fooled by Hamas and viewed it as western governments tend to see Muslim Brotherhood organizations in their own countries as religious and political, but not terrorist.
That obviously changed.
When the Bush administration pushed elections in the Palestinian Authority as part of its democracy agenda, Hamas easily won them. The Palestinian Authority then ended any future elections to avoid losing them to Hamas.
Hamas fought the Palestinian Authority (Fatah/PLO/PA are all basically the same thing) and won in Gaza.
While Israel closed its border with Gaza, Hamas had plenty of support from Muslim Brotherhood organizations around the world (and during the Obama Arab Spring, the Muslim Brotherhood temporarily took over Egypt) and from terror state sponsors like Iran and Qatar.
Under Obama, Hamas attacks and Israeli responses tended to end in ‘truces’ negotiated by Egypt. In these truces, Israel would trade some benefits for an end to the violence.
Social media has passed around a claim taken from an article in the ultra-left Haaretz about Netanyahu funding Hamas. Here’s the actual context, also from Haaretz, about that funding.
In recent months, Israel has quietly provided some relief as part of an unofficial, Egyptian-brokered truce with Hamas, in exchange for reduced rocket fire from the territory and the scaling back of weekly protests along the border. It has allowed Qatar to deliver millions of dollars in cash to allow Hamas to pay its civil servants and has allowed the United Nations to step up aid efforts.
Netanyahu allowed Qatar to bring cash to Hamas in exchange for an end to the violence.
A quote circulating on social media about Netanyahu and Hamas comes from a Haaretz hit piece on Netanyahu.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” he told a meeting of his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
The actual source is supposedly the biography of Haim Ramon who had not served in the government since 2009, and certainly not in the Likud.
Ramon, a leftist politician, had been convicted of sexual harassment, partially ending his political career. He certainly had not been a Likud member and was not attending any such meetings, raising serious credibility issues about the quote.
But the Qatar deal was certainly unpopular in the conservative Likud party, and it’s not impossible that Netanyahu might have tried to rationalize it to right-wing members in those terms.
That’s not however why the deal was made. It was made to stop Hamas attacks on some of the same communities now under attack.
Haaretz’s elite defense editor, Amos Harel, wrote a defense of the deal when it was made in an article titled, “Images of Qatari Cash Flowing Into Gaza May Embarrass Netanyahu – but Alternative Is War”
He argued that “continued pressure on the Strip will lead to an explosion, which in turn will lead to an Israeli ground operation in Gaza, heavy casualties followed by desperate negotiations over who will assume responsibility for Gaza’s population – or in other words, a return to square one. And if Israel has nothing to gain by invading Gaza, it ought to try any other possible solution before going to war…
Thursday’s cash transfer produced a relatively quiet weekend, the second in a row. Friday morning, Hamas was busy distributing the cash to 27,000 civil servants and some 50,000 families defined as needy. In the afternoon, its security forces generally prevented large numbers of people from nearing the border fence during the weekly demonstrations…
Over the summer, when incendiary balloon launchings were at their height – a threat played up by the media and on social media – Netanyahu was nearly dragged into a war he didn’t want and which the military forcefully advised against. The steps that will soon be approved to ease Gaza’s distress could have been taken much earlier, thereby reducing the damage on all sides.”
The Haaretz hit piece on Netanyahu is hypocritical because the paper supported the policy.
The policy was terrible. I argued against it. So did anyone seriously concerned about fighting Islamic terrorism The problem with it was not that Netanyahu was hawkish, but that he was too liberal and prone to giving in to pressure.
Buying calm from Hamas did the opposite. But the truces pushed by Obama had made that the default plan.
Israel however was not financing Hamas. It was letting Qatar move money in. As outrageous as that was, it was part of the same system that had Israel providing water and power to Gaza. And the entire agreement in which Israel regularly transfers money and provides services to the Palestinian Authority which is no better than Hamas.
The Oslo Accords were essentially a deal in which Israel provided terrorists with territory and money in exchange for peace. That agreement, like all subsequent ones, failed.
As they always will.
This was the policy of the Clinton administration which pushed the Oslo Accords. Nearly every administration since has pushed Israel to make concessions in exchange for peace. Biden’s visit to Israel climaxed with more of the same, with Israel being forced to once again provide services to the Hamas territory.
That’s the context.
Israel is stuck with an Islamic terrorist problem. Like most countries, it unfortunately alternates between fighting them and trying to appease them.
But the appeasement never works. War always follows. The only way to deal with terrorists is to destroy them. Anything else is appeasement which leads to compromises like these that attempt to avoid war, but bring on war anyway.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Thank you for addressing this. I have seen this story around the place, but it makes no sense, given that for this to have happened, Israel would have had to be in cahoots w/ the Muslim Brotherhood, which had a pretty ugly anti-Semitic history
This is in the same league as the “9/11 was an inside job” claims
joanofark06 says
I just wonder, how much evidence or proof, did you collect (or did you), that some guy in a country overseas financed a few muslims, to take planes, and do all the damage they did, to the towers, of course, but also to the Pentagon, and where ever the third plane was going, that ended up a field (with people picking up no bigger pieces than the size of a bread box).
I would love to see just one of those, must have been, mainstream news sources, you had to have looked at, and believed their lies.
I got one question for you then, besides wishing I could show the TON of evidence/proof I HAVE, of who “done it”. But that would probably take a week to show it all to you!
And that question is, what would be the reason to bomb the heck of Iraq (and then Afghanistan), if there wasn’t any reason? I mean, would they have just went over to the Middle East to bomb Iraq, just because they felt like it? Cause maybe the Iraqi leader, made them mad?
That there were BAD PEOPLE over there, and we need to DESTROY THEIR COUNTRY, for that reason alone? Oh, that’s right, it was found out, that they had SO MANY weapons of mass destruction, in what must have been, placed ALL OVER that country, because that’s where we bombed them, right?
So I ask again, if you could just pretend (close your eyes now), and think this scenario that 9/11 didn’t even happen….do you think that our government would have put boots on the ground, in the Middle East for nothing, no reason at all??
Give me some of your intelligence, grasshopper! Enquiring minds wanna know….
Oh, and how do you feel about the word or the action, “false flag attack”? Just conspiracy theories, no?
Be careful answering any or all of my questions. The answers you give, will show me if you voted for OBiden, and will vote him in against, in the round of elections. Oh never mind on that one, I wouldn’t want to know, because it would just ruin my whole day!
somehistory says
OT
“Bill Gates Slapped With Major Warning”
Evidently, gates has been hosting hamas and meetings of its leaders.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/bill-gates-slapped-with-major-warning/ar-AA1iAxyN?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=bb12066aa79f4ac982bf9d5e5e1853d2&ei=34
࿗Infidel࿘ says
He’s always been a suck-up for Arabs/muslims. Back in the day – the 90’s, Arabic was one of the few foreign languages in non-Roman script supported by Microsoft on Windows, and this probably predated even Unicode. Also, more recently, his older daughter married an Egyptian muslim, and he was thrilled about it
So this story – no surprise!
somehistory says
This is a breaking of the law against supporting terror and terror orgs.
gates needs to be in prison, along with a huge number of other scum.
He left his kids out of his will….so no surprise that he would be happy his daughter is now ensnared by islam and it’s foul treatment of women and kids.
joanofark06 says
Wow, I didn’t hear about that, about his daughter getting married to this “thing”. Someone needs to teach the saying, that “if your gonna dumb, you better be strong!”
So Bill, and the Gates of Hell, knows about anything and everything, about depopulation, like wanting to block the sun, and cut down every tree there is, and burying them, and GMO’s, BUT he and his daughter BOTH, are illiterate as hell, about ISLAM and what it teaches, so if this “egyption” muslim happens to be studying his quran, and all of a sudden jumps up, and kills his new wife, because he’ll say he had “mental problems” all his life growing up (bring out the tiny fiddle!), at the time he ended her life, or that he could of swore he heard satan speaking to him, in his head, and he couldn’t take it anymore, well, I’ll see a headline on the poor girls passing, and be moving onto the rest of my news (and shaking my head about more ignorance of islam) Or maybe that egyptian muslim would do us all a favor, and have a little pow wow, with Bill himself, that doesn’t end well!
James Hoagland says
To begin this discussion highlighting appeasement is an excellent way to bring out the nature of the Islamic beast. It is difficult for Israel to send its young men and women into battle because the contrast between the Israeli soldier and Jihadists is very much like innocence v. darkness. But, after October 7, 2023 it is understood that Hamas needs to be “de fanged” if not completely destroyed. It is clear that Israel has no other choice; however, the reality is Israel needs to be ready to defend against Hezbollah and Iran at the same time. Patience of a very high degree will need to be employed as this piece by piece strategy takes time and a lot of money. This war is intended by Iran to be a regional conflict with Iran coming out the victor and, I assume, establishing a Caliphate over the Middle East.
While internally Iran does not enjoy so great a support from its people and this may cause the Ayatollah a little trepidation as to when to launch the offensive. If Hezbollah joins the fracas first it may be that Iran will also be hit and thus caught a little bit by surprise. Least wise Israel must continue to defend itself praying to the God that created them and made them a people.
joanofark06 says
About creating and funding Hamas, this one website REALLY seems to HATE Israel (among others, such as RT.com), and the only reason I read their articles, is because they have many various articles and subjects, that I do agree with, and support. But many writers on this site, do not like or support Israel, or these writers, are really trying to persuade people that Netanyahu is a “two-timer”. For example is this headline:
Criminality Beyond Description: Netanyahu Supports both Hamas as well as Al Qaeda Terrorists
https://www.globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-supports-both-hamas-as-well-as-al-qaeda-terrorists/5836901
And if you scroll down to the very bottom of the page, there are quite a few more articles, that could keep you falling down the rabbit hole, on this subject alone! So if you want all the questions, and the, so called proof, of this being an “inside job”, this site will surely do it for ya!
https://www.globalresearch.ca/
At first, or at the first time, I saw one of these type of articles, I was furious at that site, for all the awful things that were said about Israel’s leader, and was SO glad I waited before I give them a dime! But still, that site is not getting any of my donation! Besides what good is a website, with so many articles, about so many subjects, but yet, you cannot comment of ANY of their articles, so it’s like THEIR word is THE LAST WORD on the subject, and we don’t care to hear what ANY OF YOU have to say about our articles/authors! Their just lucky I don’t unsubscribe from their newsletter. And their many times, or seeminly always asking for a “donation”, just irks me!!
Anyway, my open mind, had me reading and thinking, that if so many US Presidents have done the same thing, what would be so different in THIS Israel leader doing the same thing, of making a “false flag attack”, such as was done with 9/11 (There was WAY too much proof on who really had their hand in it, and a need to do this for a few reasons, and one was to get all Americans angry enough, for these elite to get their militaries planted in the Middle East. How else could they have got boots in the Middle East? Besides, human sacrifice is nothing to the elite satanists, but put the blame on some other leader or country!)
And so Hitler did his false flag attack, too. Any intelligent person, should know about that, by now, and so I can assume many other leaders have done it, once or twice, when needed. It’s so easy to pull the wool over the eyes of a population, especially one who can’t do a thing about it anyway! But the idea is to keeping the public calm, and acting like, it HAS TO BE done, for the good of the country, but in the meantime, their satisfying their own goals, of which the public are ignorant about anyway! Isn’t it like a “Let them eat cake”, kinda thing?
So, anyway the questions that were raised, and still are today, which made me think about “false flag attacks”, was the idea of, there WAS something wrong, with the security at the Gasa border.
I’ve watched many videos of this subject, and there wasn’t a single Israeli soldier watching, and some say, security was called away, before it happened, and what happened to security cameras, and the mighty technology, they could of, and probably did have, at that border (that was either shut down, took down, or whatever), so what happened to the Great and oh so Wondeful Israel security, and why wasn’t anything noticed, or done, for HOURS before, during, and after, the Hamas started their terribly evil mass killings? It’s so easy to say, at looking at the evidence, that slip of security, had to be intentional! It’s too absurd to think anything else!! But WHY, is the question, I don’t believe anyone will get the answer to, unless they threaten Netanyhu with torture, and I don’t see THAT ever happening, because oh looky, at all of HIS security!!!
I seriously don’t see any “REAL” emotion from the man either! That’s suspicious too! I wonder if anyone has heard him, apologize publicly, about that lax security, that just so happens to go missing right before Satan’s soldiers, rolled in so easily. Not with razor blades, this time, nooo, they got WIRE FENCE CUTTERS!
Just like 9/11, nothing was done until the enemy has already begun their satanists plan! So I have to go with all that, with many people asking and wondering these same things, and I sure can’t fault them for being furious!! It sure looks intentional by the Israeli side!!
Is it because, Israel wants to go in Gaza and take over that land that he graciously gave to the Palestinians years ago, and this is what they get for that? So Netanyhu sacrificed his OWN population (just like 9/11), for the gain of getting that land back?
I haven’t had a chance to look into the borders of Israel that God gave to them, but when I do, I can only hope it was Israel’s land to start with, but that STILL doesn’t excuse allowing some satanists (was it also known how horribly evil their population would be killed? I don’t believe that ANY leader would have allowed these “so evil, they were unbelievable” acts that so many of these “animals” did, and if a leader knew how evil they would be, and allowed it anyway, then they should be strung up by the neck until dead, or tortured themselves, until dead!)
And again, YES, it’s written down in black and white, in our bible, the exact borders of the land that God told Israel, was theirs, and theirs alone!