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Originally Posted by blankall
What did Israel actually do to "support Hamas"? I've heard this argument many times. They certainly attacked Fatah, who until the PLO was established was solely a militant organization.
It hasn't been "documented" anywhere that Hamas wouldn't have been "able to survive" without Israel. Israel, in hindsight, should have stamped Hamas out right away. That being said, just randomly storming a bunch of mosques wouldn't have gone over so well.
Especially as the Muslim Brotherhood had denounced violence in the 1970s. It wasn't until the split that created Hamas that Hamas began promoting violence. And, once again, Israel immediately confronted Hamas as soon as it was created.
So how was Israel going to arbitrarily take out a religious and social organization that had denounced violence?
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I found this article to be the main form of reference upon which other articles are written. It gives first hand accounts, interviews and details on the formation of Hamas and specifically how Israel was involved.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090926...295011847.html
They did eventually turn on the organization upon its formal creation in the last 80's but by that time the cat was out of the bag.