Wikileaks cable: Israeli intelligence chief encouraged Hamas takeover of Gaza Strip

International Middle East Media Center

Dec 22, 2010

In the latest revelation to come out of the hundreds of thousands of leaked diplomatic cables provided by the website ‘Wikileaks’, a diplomatic exchange between then Israeli Director of Military Intelligence, Major General Amos Yadlin, and US Ambassador to Israel Richard Jones showed Israeli support for a Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip which Israel could then declare Gaza to be a ‘hostile entity’.The Hamas party won Palestinian parliamentary elections in January 2006, but was prevented from forming a government as required by the Palestinian constitution. In June 2007, after months of attempted takeovers by the US-supported Fateh party, the Hamas party was able to form their government in Gaza. The cable in question was recorded just hours before the Hamas government was formed in Gaza in June 2007.

In the transcript, Yadlin told the US Ambassador that he would be “very happy” if Hamas formed a government in Gaza “as long as they have no (air or sea) port.” He added that Israel would then work with the rival Palestinian political party, Fateh, to form a government in the West Bank and work to undermine the Hamas government in Gaza.

That is exactly what took place, just after the meeting between Yadlin and Ambassador Jones, as Hamas created its government in Gaza and Israel launched a massive siege, and the largest-ever assault on Gaza in late December 2008.

In another leaked cable, Yadlin spoke with US Congressmember Robert Wexler in December 2008, saying ‘Abu Mazen ‘(Mahmoud Abbas) and (Salam) Fayyad are controlling the West Bank while the Hamas has established a terror entity in Gaza”.

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Via https://imemc.org/article/60238/

4 thoughts on “Wikileaks cable: Israeli intelligence chief encouraged Hamas takeover of Gaza Strip

  1. Hmmm… Am I being cynical but why do I get the impression Hamas did a ‘deal’ with Israel over Gaza. The PLO is in meltdown, Israel is in meltdown, what better ‘distraction’ than a Hamas’ attack that was sure to get Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza given that Hamas is a creation of Israel designed to neutralise the PLO.

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  2. It’s worse than that, Bill. Israel intelligence created Hamas to derail the PLO – Netanyahu brags about it – out of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was created by British intelligence and the CIA in the 1930s. In fact the Wahabi form of Islam, which advocates jihad and killing, was created by British intelligence and the CIA. Some of the textbooks used in the Madrasa in Pakistan were printed in Nebraska.

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