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How #Israel helped create #Hamas

source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas/

The Israelis saw Qutb's adherents in the Palestinian territories, including the wheelchair-bound Sheik Ahmed #Yassin, as a useful counterweight to #Arafat's #PLO.

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Yassin's Mujama would become Hamas, which, it can be argued, was Israel's #Taliban: an #Islamist group whose antecedents had been laid down by the West in a #battle against a leftist #enemy.


#politics #history #conflict #war #terror #military #news #fail #middleEast #Palestine #Gaza

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Pakistan's defence minister and spy chief held talks with Taliban officials in Kabul Wednesday on ways to counter the "threat of terrorism," days after Islamabad blamed Afghanistan-based militants for deadly recent attacks

#Pakistan accuses the #Afghan #Taliban of harbouring #militants from its own home-grown version of the #Islamist group, a charge #Kabul denies.

Afghan officials led by deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghani Baradar met Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif and Nadeem Anjum, head of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency.

They discussed "bilateral relations, trade, regional connectivity and economic cooperation between the two countries", Baradar's office said.

Pakistan's foreign ministry confirmed the talks.

https://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-officials-kabul-meet-taliban-112347072.html