How Israel helped spawn Hamas

Some of you may not even realize this, but it was none other than the State of Israel that nurtured Hamas through its early days. Much as the US tried using Islamists as allies in Afghanistan in the late '70's - to its eternal regret - Israel tried to develop Hamas as a rival to the secular Fatah terrorists of Yasser Arafat, who were far more 'successful' at murdering Jews back then.There's a