“Hamas was encouraged and really started by Israel, because they wanted Hamas to counter Yasser Arafat.

“So we first, indirectly and directly through Israel helped establish Hamas. Then we have elections. Then Hamas becomes dominant. So we have to kill them.”

“During the ‘80s … our CIA thought it was GOOD if we radicalized the Muslim world, so we financed the Madrasa schools to radicalize the Muslims in order to compete with the Soviets.”

– Ron Paul
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske

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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cehzmAfC6w0]Hamas, An Israeli Creation

OccupyingTheMind

Published on Jul 4, 2012

Ron Paul alludes to the fact that Israel helped to spawn Hamas in order to weaken the then immensely popular and secular PLO.

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(video) Miko Peled: Israeli General’s Son – Geneva 5/14/14 — “Israeli historians have been validating what Palestinians have said all along. It was not the Palestinians that began an assault. The Zionist militia began a massive campaign against an unarmed civilian population that lasted for twelve months with the CLEAR INTENTION of completing the ETHNIC CLEANSING of Palestine.”

(video) Israeli School Books’ Racist Representation of Palestinians: Israeli General’s Daughter, Nurit Peled-Elhanan — Priming Israeli children for military service

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