I don't like Hamas but it's entirely the Zionists fault that this organisation exists. They forced Palestinians into subhuman conditions which led to people Embracing religious extremism with a mix of national resistance.
It was an entire thing. Undermine the PLO by by making them agree to utopian plans of which Israel has no intention of upholding on their side, support Hamas in turn so that they win the election. Use this a pretext to justify unconditional support for the Israeli project.
It is, thus, easy to understand the initiative taken by the United States to break the united front of Asian and African states set up at Bandung (1955) by creating an “Islamic Conference,” immediately promoted (from 1957) by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Political Islam penetrated into the region by this means.
The least of the conclusions that should be drawn from the observations made here is that political Islam is not the spontaneous result of the assertion of authentic religious convictions by the peoples concerned. Political Islam was constructed by the systematic action of imperialism, supported, of course, by obscurantist reactionary forces and subservient comprador classes. That this state of affairs is also the responsibility of left forces that neither saw nor knew how to deal with the challenge remains indisputable.
Today more than ever, in conjunction with the implementation of the U.S. “Greater Middle East project,” the rights of the Palestinian people have been abolished. All the same, the PLO accepted the Oslo and Madrid plans and the roadmap drafted by Washington. It is Israel that has openly gone back on its agreement, and implemented an even more ambitious expansion plan. The PLO has been undermined as a result: public opinion can justly reproach it with having naively believed in the sincerity of its adversaries. The support provided by the occupation authorities to its Islamist adversary (Hamas), in the beginning, at least, and the spread of corrupt practices in the Palestinian administration (on which the fund donors—the World Bank, Europe, and the NGOs—are silent, if they are not party to it) had to lead to the Hamas electoral victory (it was predictable). This then became an additional pretext immediately put forward to justify unconditional alignment with Israeli policies no matter what they may be.
I don't like Hamas but it's entirely the Zionists fault that this organisation exists. They forced Palestinians into subhuman conditions which led to people Embracing religious extremism with a mix of national resistance.
Israel and the U.S. also empowered Hamas in the 80s because they didn’t want the secular leftist PLO gaining any more traction
Yeah they were literally funneling money to the founder of Hamas, this is textbook blowback.
It was an entire thing. Undermine the PLO by by making them agree to utopian plans of which Israel has no intention of upholding on their side, support Hamas in turn so that they win the election. Use this a pretext to justify unconditional support for the Israeli project.
Don't forget the sidelining of the PFLP as well, the only thing that scares them more than a liberated Palestine is a Marxist liberated Palestine.
fuck we are getting a blowback season from this aren't we?
Oh how they loved to shit all over Yasir Arafat
I will be ecstatic when we're in a position where we're talking shit about the single state of Palestine's government.
Don't forget that it's also that Isn'trael focused on repressing the marxists in particular as well
https://monthlyreview.org/2007/12/01/political-islam-in-the-service-of-imperialism/