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Siehe dazu den folgenden Artikel aus dem Wall Street Journal:

How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas
By Andrew Higgins
Updated Jan. 24, 2009 12:01 a.m. ET
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"Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation," says Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who worked in Gaza for more than two decades. Responsible for religious affairs in the region until 1994, Mr. Cohen watched the Islamist movement take shape, muscle aside secular Palestinian rivals and then morph into what is today Hamas, a militant group that is sworn to Israel's destruction.

Instead of trying to curb Gaza's Islamists from the outset, says Mr. Cohen, Israel for years tolerated and, in some cases, encouraged them as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its dominant faction, Yasser Arafat's Fatah. Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, even as he was laying the foundations for what would become Hamas. Sheikh Yassin continues to inspire militants today; during the recent war in Gaza, Hamas fighters confronted Israeli troops with "Yassins," primitive rocket-propelled grenades named in honor of the cleric.
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A look at Israel's decades-long dealings with Palestinian radicals -- including some little-known attempts to cooperate with the Islamists -- reveals a catalog of unintended and often perilous consequences.
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When it became clear in the early 1990s that Gaza's Islamists had mutated from a religious group into a fighting force aimed at Israel -- particularly after they turned to suicide bombings in 1994 -- Israel cracked down with ferocious force. But each military assault only increased Hamas's appeal to ordinary Palestinians. The group ultimately trounced secular rivals, notably Fatah, in a 2006 election supported by Israel's main ally, the U.S.
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Mr. Segev says he had regular contact with Sheikh Yassin, in part to keep an eye on him. He visited his mosque and met the cleric around a dozen times. It was illegal at the time for Israelis to meet anyone from the PLO. Mr. Segev later arranged for the cleric to be taken to Israel for hospital treatment. "We had no problems with him," he says.

In fact, the cleric and Israel had a shared enemy: secular Palestinian activists. After a failed attempt in Gaza to oust secularists from leadership of the Palestinian Red Crescent, the Muslim version of the Red Cross, Mujama staged a violent demonstration, storming the Red Crescent building. Islamists also attacked shops selling liquor and cinemas. The Israeli military mostly stood on the sidelines.
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Clashes between Islamists and secular nationalists spread to the West Bank and escalated during the early 1980s, convulsing college campuses, particularly Birzeit University, a center of political activism.

As the fighting between rival student factions at Birzeit grew more violent, Brig. Gen. Shalom Harari, then a military intelligence officer in Gaza, says he received a call from Israeli soldiers manning a checkpoint on the road out of Gaza. They had stopped a bus carrying Islamic activists who wanted to join the battle against Fatah at Birzeit. "I said: 'If they want to burn each other let them go,'" recalls Mr. Harari.

A leader of Birzeit's Islamist faction at the time was Mahmoud Musleh, now a pro-Hamas member of a Palestinian legislature elected in 2006. He recalls how usually aggressive Israeli security forces stood back and let conflagration develop. He denies any collusion between his own camp and the Israelis, but says "they hoped we would become an alternative to the PLO."
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...und man kombiniere diesen Sachverhalt mit folgender Forderung: :mrgreen:

Ja‘alon: Hamas-Unterstützer verurteilen
HERZLIJA (inn) – Die Weltgemeinschaft muss Staaten stärker in Augenschein nehmen, die Terrorismus fördern. Das hat der israelische Verteidigungsminister Mosche Ja‘alon am Montag gefordert. Insbesondere nannte er die Türkei, Katar und den Iran.

Ja‘alon warf der Türkei vor, Terroristen der radikal-islamischen Hamas zu beherbergen und deren Handeln damit zu unterstützen. „Das ausländische Hauptquartier der Hamas befindet sich in der Türkei“, sagte Ja‘alon auf der 14. Internationalen Konferenz des Instituts für Terrorismus-Bekämpfung in Herzlija.
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Zu den Ländern, die die Hamas fördern, gehöre auch der Golfstaat Katar, fuhr Ja‘alon laut dem Nachrichtenportal „Arutz Scheva“ fort. Der Iran wiederum schicke sich an, seine Unterstützung der Hamas zu erneuern, „denn sie hat sich als Front gegen den ‚zionistischen Feind‘ bewährt“.
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