I’m often amazed at just how right on point former congressman Ron Paul was when he warned the People about war, spending and general lawlessness in the federal government.  Now, we are living in the midst of it all just as he predicted.  In light of all the propaganda to get us behind a war concerning Israel and the genocide of an entire people group in Gaza over claims of “Hamas terrorism,” I thought it would be a good idea to just remind everyone of who created Hamas and for what purpose.

In 2009, Ron Paul addressed Congress to tell us exactly why Hamas was created.

Love him or hate him, Ron Paul says exactly what he thinks and he doesn’t change his view to garner votes or money.

That same year, Paul warned about Israel’s invasion of Gaza in January 2009.

Back in 2018, The Intercept reported on this information.

This isn’t a conspiracy theory. Listen to former Israeli officials such as Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s. Segev later told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat (who himself referred to Hamas as “a creature of Israel.”)

“The Israeli government gave me a budget,” the retired brigadier general confessed, “and the military government gives to the mosques.”

“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009. Back in the mid-1980s, Cohen even wrote an official report to his superiors warning them not to play divide-and-rule in the Occupied Territories, by backing Palestinian Islamists against Palestinian secularists. “I … suggest focusing our efforts on finding ways to break up this monster before this reality jumps in our face,” he wrote.

They didn’t listen to him. And Hamas, as I explain in the fifth installment of my short film series for The Intercept on blowback, was the result. To be clear: First, the Israelis helped build up a militant strain of Palestinian political Islam, in the form of Hamas and its Muslim Brotherhood precursors; then, the Israelis switched tack and tried to bomb, besiege, and blockade it out of existence.

Ethan Huff points out:

Former Israeli officials like Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who served in the Israeli military in the 1980s, fully admit to this. Segev told a New York Times reporter that he helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, which was led by Yasser Arafat.

Arafat himself famously referred to Hamas as “a creature of Israel,” and Segev agrees, having taken money from the Israeli government to create this terrorist group in the first place.

“The Israeli government gave me a budget,” Segev confessed about what happened. “And the military government gives to the mosques.”

Former Israeli religious affairs official Avner Cohen, who worked in Gaza for more than 20 years, told the Wall Street Journal back in 2009 that he, too, played a direct role in the creation of Hamas.

“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Cohen is quoted as saying.

Israel and the U.S. are the biggest funders, creators and exporters of terror worldwide

Back in the mid-1980s, Cohen wrote an official report to his superiors warning them not to deploy this divide-and-conquer plot in the Occupied Territories, which as we can now see is being used as an excuse for Israel to go in and basically gut Gaza.

“I suggest focusing our efforts on finding ways to break up this monster before this reality jumps in our face,” Cohen wrote in his letter.

Cohen was ignored, of course. And now, decades later, Hamas has become a scapegoat for Israel to wage full-scale war on not just the Palestinians living in Gaza, but also the big dog: Iran.

“Many of the terrorist groups currently in existence have been influenced or supported in some way by the United States,” Revolver adds.

“This often happens when the U.S. is involved in funding wars or supporting certain groups labeled as ‘rebels.’ As time passes, these same ‘rebels’ we once supported often become our sworn enemies, perpetuating the cycle of endless forever wars.”

Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media