Israel has admitted to arming ISIS-linked gangs as proxy forces in Gaza, throwing some cold water on the fuzzbrained narrative that the west is backing Israel to help defeat Islamic extremism. Israel is backing these forces in order to sow chaos and strife with the goal of advancing its ethnic cleansing objectives in the Palestinian territory.
…Jesus wept.
Israel, just like America believe they are Gods who can fuck around and arm dangerous groups without ever appreciating the blowback.
Israel did the exact same thing by funding Hamas in the 1970s, yes that’s right, Israel funded Hamas to take out the PLO and then they in turn became the new danger…
BLOWBACK: HOW ISRAEL WENT FROM HELPING CREATE HAMAS TO BOMBING IT
Did you also know that Hamas — which is an Arabic acronym for “Islamic Resistance Movement” — would probably not exist today were it not for the Jewish state? That the Israelis helped turn a bunch of fringe Palestinian Islamists in the late 1970s into one of the world’s most notorious militant groups? That Hamas is blowback?
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.
In the past decade alone, Israel has gone to war with Hamas three times — in 2009, 2012, and 2014 — killing around 2,500 Palestinian civilians in Gaza in the process. Meanwhile, Hamas has killed far more Israeli civilians than any secular Palestinian militant group. This is the human cost of blowback.
…Israeli tactics to fund the most radical and extremist groups to topple enemies is a game the Americans played with Al Qaeda and saw resources going to Osama Bin Laden to play the exact same role with the blowback of 9/11.
The problem with the brutal use of tactics like this is that it generates unforeseen blowback.
Hamas is one such unforeseen blowback, funding ISIS to now attack Hamas after Isreal funded Hamas to attack the PLO is just madness!
Peace is our only option because the War Gods are interested only in the profit of blood loss, not the prevention of it.
These were the share prices of the war lords as violence exploded in the Middle East.
To paraphrase Gil Scott Heron, ‘they got folk out there working for war, we have to go to work for peace’.
Beyond the immediate, there has to be space for both of these furiously angry neighbours to bond and find common ground in this parched desert of hate.
Peace Academy’s are a genuine attempt to foster these social oasis.
If NZ wants to champion peace, we need to support the NZ Peace Academy concept with grants to help organise and bring Israelis and Palestinians together to find that common ground.
I am not someone who wants the State of Israel wiped from the face of the earth! I despise Israel’s brutal occupation of the Palestinian people, the outrageous 17 year blockade of Gaza and the ongoing theft of land in the West Bank, but I see Israel as a global responsibility and obligation after the obscenity of the Holocaust.
I stand with the Palestinian people AND the Israeli people!
The idea that Jews around the world are now under attack for their State’s deplorable war crimes and group punishments is as irrational as attacking Russians for Putin’s violence.
Muslims are not our enemy, Jews are not our enemy, Russians aren’t our enemy.
Authoritarian Muslim Regimes propped up by America’s Military Industrial Complex abusing their own faith to exert control over their own people are the enemy!
The far right Zionist Government in Israel is the enemy!
Putin is the enemy!
Trump is the enemy!
Netanyahu is the enemy!
Hamas is the predictable outcome!
As many as 250 000 Palestinians may be dead.
Israel has killed as many civilians in 6 weeks as Russia has in 22 months!
Israel dropped more bombs on Gaza in a week than America did in 1 year of war with Afghanistan.
This isn’t a proportional response, it is a war crime and we all know it!
The only solution is an immediate ceasefire.
Now!
Meanwhile…
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Sorry why do we have any sympathy at all for the Israelis anymore?
A serving IDF commander tells how the IDF have recruited local armed Palestinian criminal gangs to take over the aid distribution.
.(I have lightly edited the AI generated transcript of this video interview to make it easier to read. P@).
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“Hamas Panics! Israel’s HIDDEN strategy they didn’t see coming”
Major Amiad Cohen interviewed by IDF Spokesperson (Res.) Doron Spielman
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hokMPXDfVSk
Major Amiad @18:03 minutes:
What will happen the day after?
We need to find a solution.
That’s starting now, with the small militia that is guarding, practically, these distribution points for food for the population.
It’s a good beginning.
Doron Spielman @18:17 minutes:
Hold on. I want you to unpack that.
You threw out something that for many of our listeners, and even for me, until recently is a game changer.
Israeli troops are not directly hand to hand with the Gazans?
Major Amiad @18:30 minutes:
No.
Doron Spielman @18:32 minutes:
So who is?
When you say a militia, explain, who is now securing these?
Major Amiad @18:35 minutes:
So since the beginning of the war Israel tried to reach out to local, let’s say criminal groups.
[Gangs?]
Some kind of gangs,.but they’re local families, local tribes, who were in relationship with Hamas.
You think about the Gaza’s population, as a tribal population.
So every tribe has its neighborhood, its camp, whatever it is, and it’s a very traditional population, So a lot of them are like gangsters that have a lot of um, small army, and things like that.
We tried to connect them, and eventually when we weakened Hamas, and they understood that Hamas is not going to survive this war, they’re willing to take a risk. It’s the Abu Shabbab gang, under the Tarabin tribe.
Doesn’t matter it’s Bedouins, but Tabin is the largest tribe I think, yeah it’s one of the biggest tribes in the area of Bedouins in the Sinai Peninsula,
most of it, and parts of it are in the Gaza Strip. But it’s less important who they are, yes they are jihadist, yes they’re Muslims, but they’re willing to work with Israel that’s a good beginning is that a very good solution……
….. i don’t think we will promise them to run Gaza day after, i don’t think we should. But in the meantime it’s a very good solution…
I might add that the miserable amount of aid that the Israelis are letting these Kapos take charge of, does not come from Israel. No matter how much their apologists trumpet the genoristy of the Israelis,
The UN reports that 9.000 trucks loaded with aid are waiting at the crossings into Gaza, The tiny trickle of this aid that the Israelis are letting through has been donated by Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and many other countries, including New Zealand. The tiny amount of aid that Israel is allowing into Gaza the Gazans have to fight for their lives to get. The Palesinian people are being forced to fight each other or starve.
The New Kapos
Gaza has been turned into a gigantic concentration camp, the civilian population are being concentrated into smaller and smaller areas.
Israeli forces ‘control vast majority of Gaza, making it inaccessible to Gazans’ • FRANCE 24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G7w59QhMTg
The power of the concentration camp Kapo gangs of Gaza would diminish if all the 9,000 aid trucks stpped at the borders were allowed into Gaza and the aid distributed through the established channels UNWRA and the other UN agencies set up to do it.
The Global March to Gaza and the Freedom Flotilla yaght Madleen are risking their lives to break Israel’s illegal and imoral starvantion siege.
What activists hope to achieve with the ‘Global March to Gaza‘
6 June 2025 07:21 BST
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/what-activists-hope-achieve-global-march-gaza
On 12 June, between 2,000 and 3,000 activists from close to 50 countries worldwide are expected to descend on Cairo to pressure the international community to force Israel to end the bombardment and siege of Gaza, which human rights groups and scholars have unanimously called a genocide.
The Global March on Gaza, as it has come to be known, will see activists make their way to the city of al-Arish in the Sinai and embark on a march to the border with Gaza, where they will camp for three days to urge authorities to allow aid to be let in…..
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