Blowback: How Israel Helped Create Hamas

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?
Former Israeli official Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s, 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. Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009 that Hamas is “Israel’s creation.” Hamas was the result of this, as Mehdi Hasan explains. 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.
Hosted by Mehdi Hasan ( / mehdirhasan , “How Israel Helped Create Hamas” is the fifth episode of a six-part Blowback series for The Intercept. Throughout this series, Mehdi Hasan examines key examples of blowback in greater detail and explores how foreign policy decisions by the U.S. and its allies often produce blowback and so-called unintended consequences.
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[@luisochoa576]

So Netanyahu funded hamas, ignored Egypt intel days before attack and even moved most security to the west bank to conveniently make it easier for hamas to carry their attack. Hamas couldn't have done it without Netanyahu... Netanyahu wanted a license to massacre and he got it. Those "hostages" were never intended to be rescued, they are human sacrifices Netanyahu made.

[@spinningbackkick6021]

Yep

[@xioeoeoed]

Exactly

[@Michael-pn5lp]

The Israelites comprised 12 Tribes. The Tribe of Judah are not all of Israel and few "Jews" today are even Israelites, but are descendants of proselytes.

[@johnc3525]

C'mon, let's give credit to those who deserve it: Trump leaked Israeli intel to Lavrov who then gave it to Hamas. Trump is the father of the awful Abraham accord that excluded Palestine, which enraged Iran and triggered the attack. Round of applause for these 2 right wing stable geniuses.

[@qtsmlearning]

Exactly.

[@shakilaasghar7486]

The same playbook, US made Mujahideen to counter Russia in Afghanistan, when they became out of control, named them Taliban and fought against them for more than 20 years and eventually left Afghanistan one fine morning without any result.

[@tgerard3860]

"one good morning" is sending me. 😂

[@BasedAfghan-oi1fg]

Exactly! America is the mother rod terrorism and evil!

[@anirudh1217]

Furthermore, they conveniently left enough weapons to form an army for Taliban!

[@DK-bz8mc]

Amen, Shakila. The US did a dandy job getting the USSR's butt kicked in Afghanistan, then turned its back on a devastated country desperately in need of recovery aid, sweeping it right under the Taliban's Afghan rug. Hey, but the weapons industry made a killing, right? Now we have a new and improved Taliban, living to fight yet another good gun getting morning coming soon.

[@RobertKing-oq4fq]

It'll happen again with Ukraine.

[@alexhage4935]

There is nothing antisemitic about saying there is no country called israel

[@M3ssanger]

This aged well

[@WQuantrill]

I have been saying this for years and people look at me like I’m crazy. What Hasan left out is that Netanyahu was saying as recently as 2019 that having Hamas in Gaza was necessary to thwarting a two state solution.

[@NH_RSA__]

When everyone is insane it is good that they call you crazy.

[@DannyPoet]

i think lots of Hamas cash basically comes from .. ?

[@thecsslife]

Keep saying what you are saying. People used to think the earth was flat and killed people for saying it was round.

[@ma_junia]

Always up to something aren't they?

[@moritz2692]

The video was made before 2019 so he couldn’t include it

[@TheEEStudent]

You should make a clip about "how the USA helped create al qaeda". Same thing.

[@THX-bz8bi]

@mcweb your lying scumbag

[@djeto2525]

Check out this documentary: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmmvkqBvi8Rsqqc

[@parvezahmed4606]

U.s created the Alqaida through the help of pak in 1979 when russia entered its forces in afghanistan to occupy .

[@Mustafa2892]

You mean freedom fighters

[@Mustafa2892]

Deepanshu Sharma well we do have a history of standing against aggressors

[@hcpunkrockhxxx9247]

“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation,” retired Israeli official Avner Cohen, who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told journalist Andrew Higgins in a 2009 Wall Street Journal article, describing it as an “enormous, stupid mistake.”

[@pieseldatches]

What a COHENcidence

[@hcpunkrockhxxx9247]

@@pieseldatches 😂

[@Sidi.mohamed4]

Hamas is a creation of the Zionist occupation Without the occupation, Hamas would not have existed But it is wise and wise to take advantage of your enemies

[@Sheepybearry]

Hamas created Hamas. Their was no blockade when Hamas came to power in Gaza, but after they came to power there was. Israel created some conditions, however hamas founders bear all responsibility.

[@user-yq6ix3uf2z]

Five years ago and this is still so relevant. I had no idea. Thank you, Medhi.

[@lilyruff1411]

And the Zionist keep saying OCTOBER 7 like shut up

[@jakubknopik4412]

Did he just called them militant group ?

[@spartawelly5863]

​@@jakubknopik4412yes according to UN

[@ErroneousMonk1]

@@lilyruff1411 Shut up, why???

[@hamzadz4396]

​@@jakubknopik4412 They are freedom fighters who are defending their land against Isreali occupation, expansion and ethnic cleansing. You have no idea about the war crimes of Israeli Haganah militias. Read a bit about massacre of Dir Yassin

[@salahben2350]

What about the West Bank? There is no Hamas in there, but Palestinians still suffer nonetheless. If that doesn't open some people's eyes to which side they should stand with, it proves their lack of empathy and ignorance of history.

[@mi24sturm35]

You are blinded by your religion islam which is a terrorist brainwashed religion

[@thierryranger2230]

Absolutely right, listen my friend people know, they just choose to cover their eyes.. Humanity's mask is falling off.

[@StrongbyLee]

West Bank/Jerusalem had more suicide bombings. I still stand with Palestine.

[@carla_del_ponte]

abbas is the most compliant, collaborationist leader ever and his approach did NOTHING to thwart the expansionism and apartheidism of israeli occupation... i wonder why would anyone resort to violent resistance

[@chriswatson3464]

Hamas exists on the west Bank!

[@u-n-isurvive3030]

"Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation." That's a direct quote from Dr. Avner Cohen, a top Israeli military advisor who worked in Gaza for 20 years. There is no doubt that Hamas was formed from the blowback caused by tipping the levers of Palestinian governance towards religious extremism by supporting Ahmed Yassin.

[@plocky4275]

It's literally impossible to fully understand the ethnocidal turn in the history of Israel and the rise of Hamas in Palestine without addressing the overall fundamentalist regression in the Middle East, which was fueled by the anti-communism sentiment that the US and Europe promoted during the Arab-Israeli wars in the region during the Cold War era. That is also why the whole _"hurr durr communism doesn't work"_ trope is extremely hilarious once you take a look at history and the sheer amount of money and resources dumped into subverting entire countries. These guys would have sold their own mothers before allowing the formation of an educated and movilized proletariat through labor movements; actively encouraging, funding and training some of the absolute worst human beings on Earth in order to bring down leftist movements worldwide. This is the same mentality by the way behind the mujahedeen in Afghanistan (Operation Cyclone) or the infamous Operation Condor that US deployed in South America during the 70s and 80s with unspeakable atrocities along the way, also the little less known COINTELPRO that FBI used within the US to target civil rights, feminists, anti-war, socialists and a wide range of progressive movements deemed as "subversive." What we see now in all these countries, but specially in the Middle East, is the direct result of said policies; creating monsters of their own and then leave them on unchecked. They evolved and rebelled against their teachers, which in turn gives an awesome justification for a perpetual war. By deliberately conflating palestinians as Hamas, (or Afghans as talibans or really any other terrorist group they helped to build since there's a long list) there won't be any reasoning or self-criticism against their actions; nothing will be too cruel or to extreme because the enemy is a made up concept of "pure evil," a vermin that should be erradicated at all costs. Amidst all this barbarism, thousands upon thousands will keep dying. More than a century ago, Jews from the General Jewish Labour Bund (also called bundists) had already figured this one out before it even started; the fundamentalist turn in the Arab-Israeli conflict must be countered by proletarian internationalism.

[@GoogleIsNotYourFriend]

@@plocky4275 You raise many good points and provide historical context for them but I always take issue with this type of ideological take. It just delves too much into the "powers that be" conspiratorial claims. Assigning far too much power to some, neglects the self-interest and agency of others and ignores the geopolitical games that are simultaneous being played by other influential state actors. It no longer sounds like an interesting and considered perspective, it instead starts to just sound like the mad ramblings of some obscure dogmatic political loon.

[@plocky4275]

@@GoogleIsNotYourFriend I'm a bit puzzled. How can anyone neglect people's self-agency when pointing out reactionary movements that have arisen precisely to subvert right of peoples to self-determination in the first place? Isn't the act in itself a tacit acknowledgment that such agency is very much alive and constantly being supressed? Or to even suggest that no one else was around for their own gains in the geopolitical sphere? How do you even arrive at such twisted results from the things I said?

[@talellamouchi8386]

how should the Palestinians resist the occupation, when all peaceful means ignored by isreal ?

[@ZoronikLaw]

This is a fucking lie from the mouths of Zionist propagandists who want to discredit the Palestinian resistance.

[@oceantransistor]

The chickens definitely came home to roost. Israel tried to kill their creation and instead made martyrs for Palestinian freedom. Free Palestine.

[@Etakate01]

Sending this to everyone i know

[@appliedknowledgeispower2024]

Me tooooo right here on KZbin on my other channel ❤❤❤FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

[@jameshoey69]

Bet you're fun at parties

[@JuanMendoza-qd5lm]

​@@appliedknowledgeispower2024 This video doesn't make you look good.... FYI🤣

[@Xobaer]

At first I thaught this video is from yesterday but no 🥺 its 5 years old and the situation is still the same.

[@justinianthegreat154]

Bro, it‘s 75 years and the situation is still the same. Not 5 years

[@Xobaer]

😓@@justinianthegreat154

[@Maniagio]

It’s been 75 years u can find videos older than 13 years here. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 people think ur started on October 7 but no

[@SopianAnwari-gw8dj]

Before October 7th Israel killed 7,000 palestinians in west bank, no hamas in west bank

[@Meghostak]

@@justinianthegreat154 I was gonna say 6y but I saw urs 75

[@conors4430]

We are expected to believe that you can’t side with somebody using militant terrorist tactics, at the same time, as nobody mentions the fact that because Palestine isn’t a state, it doesn’t have an army, Nor would Israel allow it to have an army, so they’re only means of actually fighting back against Their occupation, is with militant terrorist tactics. When they don’t fight, the Palestinians get strangled, when they do fight, they get strangled quicker. All the while, it’s Israel, who has been breaking international law since 1967, and flying in the face of every United nations resolution for the last couple of decades that agrees that Israel’s occupation of territories since 1967 is illegal. Not only do they want to take their land, they also expect them to take it quietly without fighting back at all. Which is the ultimate humiliation. Israel and the United States don’t want peace, because then they wouldn’t have a justification for endless war.

[@gottago671]

You believe murdering women and children is justified because they have no other option? Many ppl agree with you. So Israel has no option but to wipe out the Palestinians by the same logic. Of course you will reply that it is not Israel's land even though they clearly conquered the ppl there.

[@MrBloonbloon]

palastine has been fine its just hamas terrorists that dont want peace.

[@ringostar4904]

Well said, that is so true and yet the Western media does not portray this pic to it's citizens.

[@xc43t]

A lot of people blame Hamas as a sole reason there is a conflict in Israel. What is their alternative though? West Bank is being colonized and Palestinians forced out each day. Gaza has been locked for last 10 years. What does Israel offer to Palestinians that would make them change their tactics? All we do is repeating: Hamas is all terrorists. A lot of people think it gives them right to turn off electricity and water to 2 millions of people.

[@liamcraig123]

Apparently HAMAS has been the de facto governing body in the Gaza Strip since 2007, when it ousted the Palestinian Authority from power, primarily in Gaza; I am simply trying to connect the dots and make sense of things. So if HAMAS, created by Israel, is the de facto government of Gaza, then (I do not agree) the terror acts they conduct is in the same class as the terror acts conducted by the Israeli government, defending their territory and their people. Therefore by Israel's logic, Hamas attacks on civilians are justified by Israeli attacks and IDF soldiers on Palestinian territory harming Palestinians. It's obvious, the casualties on Israel side will be far less because of American weapons and American dollars shielding them from harm. It's the David and Goliath story played out in real time.

[@blowingUpTheSunShine]

This needs to be talked about on every media source.

[@VeroStarlite]

It's not new news, it's new to you because you don't do your homework. It happened in 1994...then things changed dramatically. Like Gaza voted HAMAS in as a Superpower by 70%.

[@blowingUpTheSunShine]

@@VeroStarlite I didn't say it was new news. I said the mainstream media needs to talk about it.

[@luci1474]

This is the only journalist who is brave enough to speak the truth.

[@abdiomarmohamed1103]

The only and intelligent too

[@tzeeco9152]

Nah,,,, He is scared to say anything else, because he is Muslim.

[@jillanjuman2775]

That’s why Zionists got him and other Muslim journalists fired from msnbc! But the truth will never stay hidden! He’s an amazing journalist!

[@igloozoo3771]

A muslim supporting Palestine is brave. Says nobody.

[@susiex6669]

​@@igloozoo3771Im a Christian and support Palestine. Has nothing to do with bravery but rather morality.

[@salq6127]

“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"

[@farkas5572]

Source?

[@Userhandle94628]

it was said in an interview he did. just copy and paste the quote he just posted. @@farkas5572

[@salq6127]

@@MarkArnoldMusic no one believes your hasbara anymore except the mindless drones who cannot still see that this monster is eating everyone and everything and especially murikas economy and military .. but you keep on with yer vomit

[@luisochoa576]

@farkas5572 Haaretz which is an Israeli newspaper. I learned about this on Breaking Points youtube channel.

[@NavidKhan84]

He literally funds them through Qatar

[@TheJinhanwei]

This is something that will never appear on mainstream media. Such a sad world we are living in🥴

[@rosesprog1722]

You can Google this: "Hamas, Israel's Own Creation by Shlomo Alegra in The Times of Israel, 3 Dec. 2018"

[@qapncrunch]

Mehdi has a weekly TV show on MSNBC lol

[@lukar164channel]

KZbin is mainstream media, dingus.

[@zyklan2197]

@@lukar164channel no its a platform, dingus

[@MasterNservant]

They did actually learn something. They learned how to have a constant ”enemy”

[@M2Mil7er]

oldest play in the book: don't like a state? Sanction to reduce material conditions, get operatives to install a religious fundamentalist alternative to that democracy, drive increasingly desperate people into the arms of extremism, say "look, we need to intervene". When will we learn?

[@Michelle-hwt-hr]

I've spent my whole life crying over Gaza. My childhood memories are embedded with Palestinians being brutally forced out of their homes, bombed, killed... i dont even live there or have any connection, but I am not a fool I can see with my own eyes a people so terrorised this is their existence, my whole life.

[@MaestroTechs]

The trouble makers are playing the victim now Michelle, someday in the near future they will be gone from that land that is not theirs.

[@benparasa]

These kind of misinformed people who live in West are slowly bringing this kind of mess to their doorsteps. In near future you will have a connection to this kind of conflict because of your woke bleeding heart. Just it's matter of time.

[@TAIR736]

The victory is soon

[@haydenhowell1647]

If you have no connection there then how are your childhood memories embedded with that imagery?

[@Michelle-hwt-hr]

@@haydenhowell1647 news...

[@iviewthetube]

This aged well.

[@hacktasticjeste3130]

Congrats for reaching 1 million views! Thank you for telling everyone the truth, Mehdi. You're a real man 🙏🏻

[@hacktasticjeste3130]

Because this video has just reached 1 million views, the question shouldn't be: "Why now?" I think it should be: "Why not before?"

[@s.l.2227]

Jesus... "It's a lesson that both the Israelis and the Americans never seem to learn, though." 😢😢😢

[@MichElle-zc9tu]

Why swear on The Lord’s Name? It is a Commandment with terrible consequences.

[@s.l.2227]

@MichElle-zc9tu Then I'll see you in hell. 😅😅😅 jkjk, that was just too good to resist. My apologies for my rude behavior.

[@s.l.2227]

@@MichElle-zc9tu 🙇‍♂️

[@Michael-pn5lp]

The Israelites comprised 12 Tribes. The Tribe of Judah are not all of Israel and few "Jews" today are even Israelites, but are descendants of proselytes.

[@krayze144]

It's not a bug, it's a feature

[@tcorourke2007]

The term "blowback" implies that the results were unexpected. In fact, it was engineered.

[@franklinclinton3211]

yes, Israel gave Hamas money because they were elected officials by the Palestinian people. Who else do they give it to? Are they not supposed to help Gaza at all? Seems like no matter what Israel does people will be mad at them. The Muslim Brotherhood has said they want to claim the world as theirs, they want to rule from Spain to Indonesia, and hate Jews. Israel was just trying to get someone new in power who didn't want this. But that is impossible in the Middle East. just a quick Google search of what the Muslim Brotherhood wanted, disproves the narrative that Yasser Arafat was going to be peaceful for very long. Plus hindsight is 20/20, Would have been very difficult to know that Hamas was the worse option of the two.

[@mansur1413t]

Yes, engineered stupidly, which means blowback.

[@tcorourke2007]

@@mansur1413t My claim is that the events that have recently unfolded were the intended results of the policies implemented. I fail to see where "stupidity" comes in.

[@bambooblinds]

@@tcorourke2007 the stupidity came from your claim.

[@joebowl8315]

Bingo.

[@abigaildelfierro1622]

this needs to be circulated more.

[@hggfhh4449]

Did Israel create isis, muslim brotherhood, al qada, taliban, houthis, the entire government of iran and other terrorists groups that act exactly like hamas too?

[@MohamedAmin-zz8wo]

They know. Most pretend Most don't care

[@hanutsingh2744]

I am extremely sad 😢 to learn about this. Really wish and pray it ends soon. Can't imagine to what extent people are suffering.

[@MayurPanghaal]

Same political strategy is in use all over the world.

[@johngleason1776]

This is exactly what the US does. I see why theyre our biggest ally

[@VirgoGoddessXxo]

Yup, exactly this.

[@CanuckYuk]

Please continue to enlighten, Mehdi, about too-easily forgotten history. Thank you for your work over the years.

[@khaos1999]

They sure did! How can you possibly occupy a people and basically force them into what equates to concentration camps and NOT expect someone to get pissed

[@pr-ji1ni]

This video needs to be shared with everyone who thinks the Israeli Palestinian conflict is a religious war. For many years, the Palestinian fighters, many of them financed by the Soviet Union, could not care less about Islam. Yasser Arafat was not a devout Muslim, to the point that he married a Catholic woman. It was only due to Israel's meddling that the Islamists started gaining power.

[@burakercan6594]

as you said, this conflict is not about religion. it is only the theft of nation's lands. as a result, there has been various reactions to this theft such as Secular Palestine Liberation Organization or Hamas İslamic Organization. Actually emergence of Hamas wasn't uprising to İsrael, was to PLO that had been disappointment and failure for Palestinians.

[@pr-ji1ni]

​@@burakercan6594 If Yasser Arafat had spent the million of dollars he received from the international community on the Palestinians, instead of hiding it in European banks, maybe the Palestinians would not have turned to Hamas. But while he was busy getting rich, Hamas was building schools, mosques and a very effective propaganda machine. The Palestinians just waited for him to die, out of respect, before they embraced Hamas.

[@Civilrightsviolations]

PLO was founded by Christian’s George habbash and Leila Khaled. Israel didn’t want to deal with them and elected to create Hamas .

[@silverkitty2503]

then why do all muslims support one side???

[@riverzin3186]

KZbin won't let me

[@margote7965]

I studied history which teaches you to look at cause and effect. Just watched Gideon Levy from Haaretz lay out the exact situation. What annoys me is how Israel has used the Holocaust as emotional blackmail to carry out pogroms or take Palestinian land. The UN keeps talking about international law but it doesn't apply to Israel. Perhaps this time they will go too far even for their allies.

[@eden5260]

Pogroms ? 😂 You got your history reversed

[@ScoopDogg]

this will educate on history kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJi5iXx4n55ja9k

[@ScoopDogg]

you have to go back to who was the original people and the first site was 2 decades and decades before islam or even the name palestine existed christians and jews had temple mount built before anyone even older than mecca. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJi5iXx4n55ja9k

[@finddeniro]

@@eden5260 similar motives..

[@fdr100100]

there is no palestinian land my friend, every arab in israel is there because of the muslim conquests jews have been there since the beginning

[@milesdiallo564]

That is great journalism. Thank you. Sadly explains so much about today’s current situation.

[@andypitt2848]

This video really needs to keep circulating wider !!!

[@Khelaz]

People would rather die than to accept the deception (the Reality)

[@wishwewere1256]

Download this before Israelis find a way to take it down

[@ilmco]

bump ✨

[@muslimcel4581]

shut it down sclomo!

[@blackpanther6389]

I don't think they have to. There are so many people that think this is false or a conspiracy that the tactic of hiding truth in plain sight is working quite well. Whether or not this is true, which I believe is true, it's crazy that this gets immediately dismissed instead of a person doing due diligence and doing some more research.

[@Dino-vf4ix]

Israel doesn't have authority to take stuff down from news organizations. Not sure where you got that idea

[@Russophile30]

I did.

[@zmanafacation]

Divide and conquer. Straight out of the colonialist playbook.

[@Henrik46]

No. Straight out of every military playbook. It has nothing to do with imperialism. Especially since Israel was created by anti-imperialists decolonizing their ancient civilisation.

[@guyincognito7979]

@@Henrik46 israel was created by the british empire which if not mistaken was imperialist.

[@yedidyazak9226]

@@guyincognito7979 it was given independence

[@guyincognito7979]

@@yedidyazak9226 that's what i just said

[@adamadams8388]

@@guyincognito7979 There's a big difference between saying the british empire has given independence to Israel and saying it created Israel. It is the israeli people who fought and continue to fight today that brought about Israel's creation. They fought to get the recognition of Israel's right to exist as a nation among the world's nations from the british empire and the UN and also fought off multiple wars against arab countries. With all due respect to the brits, Israel was not created by them, but by the men and women of Israel.

[@nafisanwari6288]

Thank you for sharing. This needs to have at least 10m views.

[@AnonymousOmniscience]

10 million? I think you meant to say 10 billion

[@blackpanther6389]

Wow. In 6 mins. So crazy how people can be rooting for one side when this video is telling me that we should be asking wayyyy more questions!

[@robertordonez9242]

Spread awareness, wake the sheep up. It’s bigger than the Middle East, the west also has blood on their hands. This recent conflict has brought forward many truths the world has been trying to conceal.

[@drqedar9415]

Evil People don't like the truth

[@Bell_plejdo568p]

@@drqedar9415how is Hamas evil?

[@drqedar9415]

@@Bell_plejdo568p ? I never called an organization. Evil" in my comment . I said " Evil people ". I don't understand your question?

[@Chonus]

Both sides are evil it's too far gone

[@cecileroy557]

I was watching a recent video where an American man, well versed and familiar with Israel, stated that Israel "is magnanimous because it allows 20,000 people from Gaza to work in Israel". He left out the fact that there's a million-plus Palestinians who CAN NOT leave - not even to see a doctor in Israel. I closed that youtube channel after he said how well Israelis - and Israel - are doing, which makes the Palestinians "envious". Palestinians can't leave to go to university. There's no internal businesses operating in Gaza or the West Bank because, once again, THEY CAN'T LEAVE.. There's so much more...😢

[@justsain3236]

Israel is an apartheid state with an Illegal settlement expansion. Also, while Jews have historical ties to the region dating back 3,500 years, the Canaanites, who are the ancestors of the Palestinians, had already been established there long before the arrival of the Jews. Holding a party close to a region marked by significant and systemic oppression (i.e. Gaza which is an open-air prison), especially when such oppression is executed as "collective punishment" by one's own government, reflects deep insensitivity. As individuals, confronting injustice is not just an option, but a duty; that is the stance they should have adopted instead of dancing around. It is important to note that they were on land that is internationally recognized as Palestinian territory, which has been occupied illegally by Israel. Simply put, they should not have been on that land.

[@cecileroy557]

@@justsain3236 Well said!!

[@rashasarandah1695]

@@justsain3236yes!

[@ernstgoldman3634]

"Palestinians can't leave to go to university. " There are several Universities in Gaza. Look it up. And there are many thousands of Palestinians who study abroad.

[@rashasarandah1695]

@@ernstgoldman3634 they have to apply for a permit. Many don’t get approved.

[@atiqbaqi]

Very much needed facts for world to know right now.

[@BirdArvid]

Sounds just like what the US did in Afghanistan during the Russian war there, or the long-term result of over-throwing a democratically elected leader in Iran in the 50's.. and slightly differently, with unexpected but equally "bad' consequences in several other places in the world.

[@ljubomirradakovic6012]

Pattern repeats

[@familjensiresi7918]

Yes. U need external enemy to make sure the sheep will follow mainstream

[@shakilaasghar7486]

US applied the same formula at Pakistan, by throwing away our most popular democratic govt in April 2022 and since then US backed army establishment of Pakistan has snatched the human rights from its citizens. They have been abducting, tourturing, murdering innocent civilians in the name of national security. So far more than 40 people have been killed including Arshad Sharif, a prominent journalist. They have kept the ex prime minister Imran khan in a death cell under false alligations.

[@rolijuliano4472]

⁠@@familjensiresi7918But usually that external home-mode enemy will destroy yourself.look at what happened in Afghanistan and Iran

[@annalehman93941]

Yes, they are! They support and found Bin Laden again USSR.

[@humaafandi8894]

Famous American linguist Noam Chomsky has described the actions of the Israeli occupation in Palestine as “worse than South African apartheid”.“In the Occupied Territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid,” Chomsky says, according to Days of Palestine. “To call it apartheid is a gift to Israel, at least if by ‘apartheid’ you mean South African-style apartheid.

[@elih9700]

Famous linguist, perhaps he should stick to his profession.

[@moqif2060]

@@elih9700I'd rather trust him, and the documented history of Israel's policy of genocide against Palestinians, than a random genocide apologist on KZbin.

[@elih9700]

@@moqif2060 Better you trust nobody and seek the evidence for yourself.

[@potatopower2144]

He's a linguist. Absolutely clueless about politics. The only time the guy ever pops up is when he's condemning Western civilizational and praising Communists, terrorists and dictators

[@23ncarol]

Let Israel not cry for its Holocaust... since it's doing to another nation...

[@winesap2]

This is what the US did with Saddam Hussein and does regularly around the world as a regular part of foreign policy strategy. Thanks for telling it like it is, but you could have mentioned the part about Netanyahu wanting Hamas to have more power because their extremism justified more severe Israeli tactics and prevented a peaceful solution.

[@hacktasticjeste3130]

But the irony is that this video actually came out in 2018

[@ianfryer]

This is absolutely correct and deserves to be more widely understood outside of Israel. Yuval Diskin, former head of Israel's Shin Bet security service, told the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth in 2013 that "if we look at it over the years, one of the main people contributing to Hamas's strengthening has been Bibi Netanyahu, since his first term as prime minister." In August 2019, former prime minister Ehud Barak told Israeli Army Radio that Netanyahu's "strategy is to keep Hamas alive and kicking … even at the price of abandoning the citizens [of the south] … in order to weaken the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah." The logic underlying this strategy, Barak said, is that "it's easier with Hamas to explain to Israelis that there is no one to sit with and no one to talk to." The former Saudi intelligence chief and ambassador to the U.S. has said "I condemn Israel for funneling Qatari money to Hamas." He was referring to money that the Qatar royal family has been sending to Gaza for years, to the tune of about a billion U.S. dollars. Netanyahu's hawkish defence minister Avigdor Liberman was the first to report in 2020 that Bibi had dispatched Mossad chief Yossi Cohen and the IDF's officer in charge of Gaza, Herzi Halevi, to Doha to "beg" the Qataris to continue to send money to Hamas. "Both Egypt and Qatar are angry with Hamas and planned to cut ties with them. Suddenly Netanyahu appears as the defender of Hamas," the right-wing leader complained. A year later, Netanyahu was further embarrassed when photos of suitcases full of cash going to Hamas became public. Liberman finally resigned in protest over Netanyahu's Hamas policy which, he said, marked "the first time Israel is funding terrorism against itself."

[@hacktasticjeste3130]

So Netanyahu funded terrorism against himself. It's no wonder why the Israeli people are pissed off at him right now because he just humiliated himself by making that mistake! This comment should get over hundreds or thousands of likes right now!

[@fieldlab4]

This is more relevant than ever today.

[@haltom7259]

Rethink that again 😅

[@fieldlab4]

@@haltom7259 Israel's actions are less justified today than ever, but Hassan's comments are also as relevant as ever. A "crossfire" needs a justification and Israel needs that justification just as American police need justification for their racist violent "responses". In fact, the Israeli military influence US policing. While I appreciate Raja Abdulhaq's comment, Mehdi Hassan's comment about Israel exploiting and cultivating military opposition still seems accurate. They desperately need to justify buying F-16's, drones, etc., and Abdulhaq openly admits Hamas abandoned Marxist principals long ago. The issue is that Israel needs and expects symmetrical military responses but since parity between Israel and Palestine is wildly asymmetric, the focus should be on asymmetric political responses, not symmetric military ones.

[@haltom7259]

@@fieldlab4 I know. I was talking about the "today more then ever part". Dont worry. I already took into account all the remarks you made. Though I know why Israel is acting why they do, from a humanitarian standpoint it is highly sad. In the end, the normal population on both sides needs to live with constant fear due to a ruling elite trying to cover the instability they created.

[@akashsourav3163]

2 years later, we are saying the same thing

[@Thekiko2501]

hal tom facts

[@litchi4507]

The Talibans is another example. This one is created by the americans.

[@metalvideos1961]

Taliban/Al Qaeda and ISIS are all created and funded by the US. well ISIS is created by US England and Israel.

[@rodrahama2344]

Now you see why CNN FIRED him.

[@meeraaldary8439]

The price of speek truth

[@Apple_Teck]

Just as we funded, Saddam Hussein, and Manuel Noriega.

[@claudelebel49]

This should be mainstream but of course it is not as most media outlets do not dig that deep.

[@EmilyInALoop]

Lol do you know who runs western media outlets? Let’s just say they share a religion with Israel.

[@AntiCoruptionCentral]

@@EmilyInALoop Merchants of media. "Happy" ones.

[@yc5141]

Actually the media hides it!!

[@Michael-pn5lp]

The Israelites comprised 12 Tribes. The Tribe of Judah are not all of Israel and few "Jews" today are even Israelites, but are descendants of proselytes.

[@alonerpro]

They know but wont show.

[@Maria-Ortodoxa]

So Israel is attacking Israel. What a surprise!

[@dkb2080]

its nothing new here

[@ilikecringe]

Wrong it's actually israel attacking israel this time.

[@teeade]

The same thing happened with the US. They helped create Al Qaeda by aiding Muhahideen terrorists, then decided to fight them when they're no longer beneficial to US interests in the way they once were.

[@frenchfry5675]

@@teeade not just fight them, they have other purposes.

[@vick7848]

No, it's Israel fighting Palestinians using Palestinians

[@tasakb3444]

Thank you so much Hassan. Very informative.

[@Rstudio8]

why is the algorithm not doing its job and showing this to more people

[@mikeprzyszlak5242]

Well done Sir, I honestly thought this fact would be buried since, this year, all of the sources I used to prove it in the past, were impossible to find. I did not expect to see such a heavy evidence presented in 6min. Brilliant.

[@Dino-vf4ix]

Israel did help Hamas because it was peaceful at the time. When they began to militarize they were no longer helped. This guy is selectively telling and not telling facts in a way to get people to think a certain way.

[@cosmaskwalira-phiri4710]

Let us hear the other side of the story then. Every media house now seems to tell it's own story, it's the listeners now doing the research.

[@Mirrale]

@@Dino-vf4ixthey were religious fanatics from the start. They may have been “peaceful” because they didn’t have the means to threaten Israel at first, but they were always going to oppress the Palestinians living in Gaza and sow turmoil. That’s what Israel wanted, it just spilled over to them.

[@kafka1343]

@@Dino-vf4ix lol 😂what do you mean Israel didn't know that hamas is formed on the idea of Muslim Brotherhood and heavily inspired from idea of sayyad qutb lol What do you think Israel is so dumb . Israel funded hamas to end up fatah group Leadership. They want to implant a spy inside gaza but that thing backfired lol They never wanted a sovereignty of Palestine and fatah tried every thing to gain independence but Israel didn't believe in two nation existence. Lol

[@E_Clampus_Vitus]

@@Dino-vf4ixAlright, I’d like to know which Israeli officials were responsible for making the decision to fund Hamas. What came of them? Were their political careers ruined for making such a grievous error? What connections do these politicians have to weapons manufacturers and the military industrial complex?

[@joelaulusa3774]

Thank you medhi💜👏

[@Juliasblues]

That was worth watching. Always like your shows, thank you.

[@O2Fimile]

"How can it be that an occupier is defending itself? The notion that Israel is defending itself is as absurd as the notion that the rapist is defending itself from the victim

[@SteveRogers461]

Create an enemy to justify stealing their land ...

[@susiex6669]

Create an enemy to justify punishing the victims while you continue to steal their land, more like.

[@bambooblinds]

@@susiex6669 I wouldn't say Palestinians are STEALING israeli land. it's more that they're hard to evict squatters occupying parts of israel.

[@kckush5046]

Ron Paul isn't mad. He's a truth teller

[@stefanthorpenberg887]

This is (also) the consequense of the simple, and false, reasoning that my enemies enemy is my friend. Supporting someone who fight my enemy will be a final win for me. We saw that in USAs support of the muslim guerilla in Afghanistan, which later developed to the taliban and ended in catastrophe. Often it turns out that your enemies enemy is also your enemy.

[@colterthompson6846]

Ron Paul wasn't "mad" he was absolutely correct.

[@buckchile614]

Even a blind squirrel finds an occasional " nut."

[@colterthompson6846]

@@buckchile614 except he's found every nut he's gone after concerning US interventionism abroad what the f%@# are you talking about.

[@NightwatchN8]

Ron Paul sounds more like a prophet than a congressman these days

[@AntiCoruptionCentral]

"like" That is all.

[@anonymous3174]

Did reddit bring you here? Me too

[@no-sway3709]

Ron Paul right again

[@writerconsidered]

Ron Paul had been right about a few things, I disagree with him on most things but I also give him credit when he gets something right.

[@Michael-pn5lp]

The Israelites comprised 12 Tribes. The Tribe of Judah are not all of Israel and few "Jews" today are even Israelites, but are descendants of proselytes.

[@kifayatullahanwar8685]

What Hasan left out is that Netanyahu was saying as recently as 2019 that having Hamas in Gaza was necessary to thwarting a two state solution.

[@hacktasticjeste3130]

And what you left out is that this video actually came out in 2018, just a year before Netanyahu funded Hamas

[@w.f.a8498]

I had doubt to this group and finally found this video and thanks for telling this.

[@bbbartolo]

Mehdi Hasan is such a valuable asset in the media, I think MSNBC is nervous to give him as much airtime as we could use of him.

[@theresabreaud]

Lmao your brain damage

[@merrybolton2135]

He still believes Muhammad road of a winged horse to mecca. Intelligent on the one hand BUT stupid on the other

[@michaelburgess7242]

He’s a reactionary apologist for Islamic extremism and someone who literally believes his Prophet went to non existent heaven on a magic carpet.

[@bbbartolo]

@@merrybolton2135 Christian beliefs are hardly more reasonable, taken literally

[@patiencempirirwe5449]

Why did he leave Al jazeera

[@swordoftree]

Damn that was five years ago and is still so relevant.

[@Nofanofpolitics]

This is an fantastic piece of journalism.

[@mattjmeltzer]

Thank you for making this video.

[@mschuiming]

Medhi, thank you for your always insightful and accurate reporting. Please find more ways to speak these truths to power. The planet had so few fighters for the average people and their right to reality.

[@Marks1199]

This video aged well...

[@davidmuller1958]

yup. Dirty terrorists, being dirty terrorists.

[@Marks1199]

@@davidmuller1958 yep exactly... Netanyahu and his scum are still terrorists, nothing changed....

[@anahk2345]

I can’t believe that we all have been so ignorant about all of this!!! I feel we have been so stvpid. Of course many people know, but in general no one knows sht

[@frankwalker2873]

Doesn't surprise me all this information has been buried away from the people of the world.

[@sareedoahmed1751]

As freethinker, Internet has sooo much information that needs filtering however this is info that most people don't know.

[@ItalianIrishguy]

No information online should be filtered.

[@umarlatif4251]

This is true information accept it or keep quiet

[@etzwei7994]

What he means by filtered, as I understand it, is verifying and authenthecating before believing it. As some people simply believe those sources without verifying, in which misinformation spreads. And if that happens, then they might be the one supporting the opressor and not the oppressed.

[@DilutedH2SO4]

Everyone needs to see this video!

[@Defender_of_the_realm]

Is this the guy that actually thinks a man flew to the moon on a horse

[@KyleRuggles]

Bigly! @NeonNoctibus

[@veronicanunes3850]

This is so important, but nobody is talking about this. . .

[@thekrevolution]

Thanks for the history lesson, its important to know this.

[@MrJREllman]

It's BS. Israel didn't clamp down on Hamas as heavily as it would have if it had known the danger. It looks naive now but at no point did Israel finance or arm Hamas.

[@tchalla7828]

Exactly. This is the part Mainstream media hides from the public

[@ismaelcruz2148]

Yes. It’s important to know that Israel was helping others. That means you can’t help these people

[@MrJREllman]

@@ismaelcruz2148 They have to help themselves. Maybe they will in a few decades. Somehow they have to grow up.

[@roninpjsho]

Hard to help yourself when a Super power and the largest nation in the Middle East sabotage your growth.

[@andreasbredli749]

Good video ;) Thanks for the information

[@healthcrowndr.ahmedelsayed9678]

amazing video 👏👏👏 thanks for the explanation

[@TheComminustboxhead]

Why am I never surprised by Israel’s unwavering ruthlessness?

[@alizakessler]

This is fake lies

[@techcafe0]

and deviousness

[@andrewfritz4937]

Likely because they’ve literally been attacked since their beginning of their existence. There is no single cultural group on earth who has been as continuously or viciously, attacked throughout history as Israel. Or were they expected to just let a bunch of assholes in the Middle East roll them over?

[@eden5260]

How is it ruthless to support a new organisation that would replace what seems as you Emmy back then ?

[@EmilyInALoop]

109 that’s why you aren’t surprised

[@antgrantrant]

Everyone should be forced to watch this before anything loads on facebook, twitter, or youtube.

[@blackpanther6389]

Unfortunately, it does nothing for those already entrenched in their beliefs.

[@GGMC556]

Why look at the history and why this is all happening.. when you can watch that video of the german girl and get all emotional and pick a side based off of that?

[@brucesnow7125]

They don't care. People just don't care my friend. You think they are doing this sincerely? In couple of years when narrative shifts, they will jump on and act like they never supported ethnic cleansing.

[@ZizouZidane7]

The ignorant want to stay ignorant. There hate for Arabs or Islam is to big for wanting to see the truth.

[@djdarq6311]

Fascist

[@7offman]

Nobody is talking about this in the mainstream media

[@domenicsandri2740]

Israel couldn’t fight the “peace offensive” of the PLO, as Israel named it, so they encouraged Hamas hoping it would become militant. That way Israel would react with full force, including using it as an excuse to genocide the civilians. Hamas first started as a social services group, but due to the occupiers continual belligerence & atrocities against the Palestinians caused Hamas to become more militant. Now Israel is in big trouble & deserves worse.

[@1unsung971]

People really need to know this history. Thank you.

[@Atomo24]

Great video, so informative, accurate, and easy to understand Thanks for uploading

[@VeryHighCholesterol]

eye opening information

[@mariejackson9276]

Ty for this video, it is an eye opener.

[@user-os6mh5ew4w]

100% true

[@Madderthanjoker]

the same crap happened with the CIA funding the mujaheddin fighters against the Russians (later known as the Taliban) . Blowback is the name of the game whenever middle east conflicts happen.

[@binsarm9026]

and don't forget more stuff in USA's own backyard down in Central America. nice movie out of it with Tom Cruise in "American Made" :)

[@ahmedm6041]

Thank you for setting the records straight for the entire world about the creation hamas. Now that's fair and balance professional journalism that no other media talks about!

[@OneDharmaYouMovement]

I feel sorry for Muslims....... ...... trapped by Arab colonisation and a culture of apostacy laws. A self imposed aparthied imposed onto them by Arab imperialist colonisers, i feel sorry for Muslims....... ....kidnapped by Arab colonisers and slavers to wholly submit to their authourity and fascist religious ideology and encouraged to put their lives on the line for the Arab Elite imperialists. Human Shields colonised, converted, duplicated to serve Arab supremacy. i feel sorry for muslims...... ....... who cannot question debate their belief without fear from other Muslims, i feel sorry for Muslims who go to Mosques and are blown up by a more devout muslim serving his Arab ideology. I feel sorry for Muslim girls who are forced to cover up from head to toe and mask them as some sort of attempt of modesty from the glare of Muslim eyes. I feel sorry for Muslims for they have been kidnapped from africa, asia, india, persia, eygpt, their identity wiped and then from birth schooled in Arab madrassa schools on how to submit. The biggest Slave Coloniser of human kind was Arab imperialist fascist colonisation of Africa, Middle East, Asia. Whole races, people, culture, destroyed and replaced with a slave duplicate Arab colonised identity. The largest slave trade of africans was carried out by Arab Islamic fascist, who could only escape death; was to submit to Arab authority, in name, dress, culture, festival, religion, law, ideology and reject their own ancestry be it egyptian , africa, persian, Indian now duplicated to serve one Arab ideology. Non Arab Converts colonised by Arab are classed as Mawali, slave clients of Arabs. What is religion if your cant leave? slavery. Muslims demand and RIGHTLY equal rights, democracy, religious freedom in the west and india, BUT THIS IS DENIED as policy in Arabised states as law. There is never a protest from muslim groups about this discimination and persecution of non muslims (not colonised by arabs). In fact western Muslims (colonised by Arabs) have the freedom of the west to live as equal and using this freedom they defend Arab Fascist religious arab states as they 'educated' to, yet they themselves would NEVER live in such tyrannical states. Hence the reason the majoirty of muslims refugees go to europe, another reason for that is Arab states do not adhere to UN resolution of Refugees, even if they are Muslim. A muslim duty is to protect the Arab imperialists at all costs, because the Arab diety and the stone in mecca are NEVER wrong, and if a Muslim (colonised by arabs) says otherwise they could be sentaced to death because of apostacy laws in place. The only jewish homeland is isreal, OVER 1500years before Arab Islam, there are over 30 Arab religous facsist states. Jews where systematically cleansed from the middle east and europe. Yet we dont trade with putin, for far less, we do with Arabised states that a death penalty for rejecting Arab authourity and Religous Imperialism. Do muslim accept they are products of arab colonisaton, then forbidden to leave under sharia law, with an Arab idenity imposed onto them submitting to Arab imperialism and supremcay. It was Arab states that aligned with Hitler to kill Jews. A history not taught in the Arab Madrassa schools, but then again if you have a supremacist beleif imposed into you by Arab imperialists you dont have much choice but to agree with that religious ideology. Maybe the Arab deity and the stone idol in mecca wont grant you a place Heaven. I feel sorry for Muslim who have to defend the massacre of non muslim men women children not just in isreal but around the world, as wholly justifiable, after being raised in a fascist arabs supremacist ideology where they MUST submit. Or look away when a Hamas rockets fails and killed 400 people then blame it on the non believers, kafirs, the people not Converted, Not colonised Not owned Not controlled by Arab supremacy.... At least in the west people know they where colonised and have freedom to express dissent in the Arab facist supremacist world, to accept this is a death penalty. What is religion if your cant leave? slavery. What is religion if your cant leave? slavery.

[@Findaway2day]

MSNBC wanted to silence him, but he found his own outlet.

[@tahu6175]

"The more chickpeas you smash, The more hummus you create."

[@meeraaldary8439]

❤

[@nelsonkfchen]

Great journalism!

[@fieldlab4]

Term of the century- MANUFACTURED OPPOSITION

[@fieldlab4]

And Hamas is so popular among Palestinians today. The comment really just claims that extremism is not only supported by Israel but many Palestinians as well, which kind of proves Hassan's point.

[@Someone-dk1zc]

@@fieldlab4 Who told you that Hamas so popular ??? They refused and refuse make election because the definitly know , that they will lose it , in Fatah Ceremony 1.3 M people participate in it in Gaza City , you must know that Whole of Gaza Strip population is 1.8 M !!!

[@fieldlab4]

Sorry, that was a satirical comment about Hamas being so popular and representing Palestine.

[@Someone-dk1zc]

@@fieldlab4 you can Check my words , I actually live in Gaza

[@fieldlab4]

@Jason SteelflexA crossfire needs a justification and Israel needs that justification just as American police need justification for their racist violent "responses". In fact, the Israeli military influence US policing. While I appreciate Raja Abdulhaq's comment, Mehdi Hassan's comment about Israel exploiting and cultivating military opposition still seems accurate. They desperately need to justify buying F-16's, drones, etc., and Abdulhaq openly admits Hamas abandoned Marxist principals long ago. The issue is that Israel needs and expects symmetrical military responses but since parity between Israel and Palestine is wildly asymmetric, the focus should be on asymmetric political responses, not symmetric military ones.

[@elbagrau]

I'm not surprised. Hamas just helped Nathanyahou dissipate the worst politican and social crisis in the history of Israël... just at the right moment.

[@vader8867]

and secure bibi in power!!

[@avradio0b]

@@vader8867 Not necessarily- he's facing a lot of internal criticism for how he handled the attack, as well as for directing resources away from the gaza strip to support his annexation of the west bank (something which will inflame tensions in the long run... again). It's not quite like the US over there when it comes to wartime support of politicians, partially because of how often these sorts of things are.

[@2manystories2tell43]

You hit the nail on the head!! The perfect distraction from his corruption!!

[@angelikalindenau943]

It could all have been kicked off by NetanYahoo, the only person to benefit from the disaster as for the time being his ass has been saved. Or so he thinks...

[@vader8867]

@@2manystories2tell43 just like Bill Clinton and the Lewinsky affair.

[@elmabrooks7417]

Five years ago, I missed that. I thought it was a recent move.

[@lawrencewik3054]

More Mehdi! His perspective, clarity, and powerful voice need amplification not silencing!

[@angelokoljenovic8715]

I have supported Israel all of my life. this has gone ...

[@OddWoz]

I campaigned twice for Ron Paul. His son Rand is someone I’d chase up the street with my campaign sign and never trusted for a second, but the father was a class act. Thankful for him always speaking the truth and acting on behalf of the Peoples’ interest-and that’s more important to me in a leader than agreeing with him on every single issue.

[@a.humanrightsactivist]

The son is scary. A doctor yet perpetuates conspiracy theories.

[@jadapinkett1656]

​@@a.humanrightsactivist Average TYT viewer.

[@AlexM-oq5el]

​@@a.humanrightsactivistConspiracy theory that the DHS funded gain of function research in the Wuhan lab where the virus most likely originated? That's a widely accepted theory now. I think you might be stuck in 2020

[@brotherjohnnyxXxX]

​@@jadapinkett1656Science denier

[@jolenejones6243]

agree

[@britishpridelearnrealhistory]

A war crime is a violation of one of the laws of war (also known as international humanitarian law). These laws were introduced after the atrocities of World War Two. War crimes include the deliberate and unprovoked destruction of communities, devastation beyond military necessity and the ill-treatment, torture or murder of civilians living under occupation. War crimes are among the gravest crimes in international law. They are so serious that there is no time limit for prosecuting the perpetrators. Israel has a long history of war crimes, from the ethnic cleansing in 1948 to its present-day devastation beyond military necessity in Gaza. Since 1948 the United Nations have condemned Israel’s war crimes, but Israel continues to act with impunity.