Origins of Hamas

Hamas is not innocent. They have killed civilians as can be seen on camera, and held civilian hostages.

Israel funded Hamas's predecessor - Hamas's future founder Ahmed Yassin was a member of the Muslim brotherhood, an organization initially suppressed under Egyptian rule but supported by Israel after the six day war, for the purpose that Yassin's Islamist Mujama al-Islamiya (founded in 1973) would serve as a competitor to the secular PLO, dividing Palestinians.

In 1979 Israel recognized Sheikh Yassin's Mujama al-Islamiya group as a charity, allowing it to build mosques, clubs and schools in Gaza. According to Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who spoke to the New York Times: he helped finance the Islamic movement, saying: "The Israeli government gave me a budget and the military government gives to the mosques," 

In 1984, after Israeli troops raided weapons from a Mujama al-Islamiya mosque, Avner Cohen, Israel's religious affairs official in Gaza, sent a report to senior Israeli military and civilian officials, warning that Israel's policy towards the Islamists was allowing Mujama to develop into a dangerous force. (𓃠) 

Col. David Hacham, who worked in Gaza in the late 1980s and early '90s told the WSJ: "When I look back at the chain of events I think we made a mistake... But at the time nobody thought about the possible results." (𓃠)

Israel views Hamas as an Asset - A Wikileaks document reveals that in 2007 Israeli Military Intel Director Amos Yadlin said in a meeting with US ambassador Richard Jones, that "Israel would be 'happy' if Hamas took over Gaza, because the IDF could then treat Gaza as a hostile state" (𓃠)

In a 2015 Interview Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said: “The Palestinian Authority is a burden, and Hamas is an asset,” Smotrich said at the time. “It’s a terrorist organization, no one will recognize it, no one will give it status at the [International Criminal Court], no one will let it put forth a resolution at the U.N. Security Council.” (𓃠)

In 2019 Benjemin Netanyahu stated at a Likud meeting that: those who oppose a Palestinian state should support the transfer of funds to Gaza, because maintaining the separation between the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza would prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. (𓃠)

In December 2012, Bibi told Israeli journalist Dan Margalit that it was important to keep Hamas strong, as a counterweight to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, and that having two strong rivals, including Hamas, would lessen pressure on him to negotiate toward a Palestinian state. (𓃠)

Shlomo Brom, former deputy to Israel’s national security adviser, said: “One effective way to prevent a two-state solution is to divide between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank," and that the division gives Netanyahu an excuse to disengage from peace talks. (𓃠)

Bibi increased Gazan workers in Israel - Just so, in 2023 Israel under Netanyahu negotiated with Hamas to increase the number of work permits Israel granted to Gazan laborers, eventually setting the number of work permits to 20,000, (𓃠) keeping money flow into Gaza. 

Bibi sent millions to Hamas - According to data from an international organization presented to the Israeli security cabinet and confirmed by Israeli government professional staff, Qatar has provided Hamas in the Gaza Strip with over $1.1 billion from 2012 to 2018, with the approval of the Israeli government. (𓃠)

In a 2018 cabinet meeting, Netanyahu’s aides presented a plan to send Hamas millions of dollars bi weekly in cash-filled suitcases through Qatar to maintain ceasefire, with Shin Bet monitoring the list of recipients to try to ensure that members of Hamas’s military wing would not directly benefit. Bibi sent billions in roughly a decade. By 2021 Qatar was spending roughly $30 million a month in Gaza. 

CIA middle east analyst, Chip Usher said: “Anything that Hamas didn’t have to use out of its own budget freed up money for other things.” 

During meetings with security officials, the Mossad chief Barnea expressed opposition to continuing the payments, on the grounds that some of the money was being diverted to Hamas’s military activities, as did the US: In 2017, as Republicans pushed to impose financial sanctions on Qatar over its support for Hamas, Bibi dispatched senior defence officials to Washington to tell American lawmakers that Qatar had played a positive role in the Gaza Strip, according to three people familiar with the trip. 

Former Mossad senior, Uzi Shaya, travelled to China to try to shut down what Israeli intelligence had assessed was a money-laundering operation for Hamas run through the Bank of China. After his retirement, he was called to testify against the Bank of China in an American lawsuit brought by the family of a victim of a Hamas terrorist attack. At first, the head of Mossad encouraged him to testify, saying it could increase financial pressure on Hamas. These orders were reversed after a visit by Netanyahu to Beijing a state visit, preventing him from testifying (𓃠)

The Hamas Charter Change

Hamas charter 1988: "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem). (𓃠) 

May 2017 “Document of General Principles and Policies.”: Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity. (𓃠)