The Hegelian Dialectic of Choice for Expanding Empires

I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…

How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas:
https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB123275572295011847

(Andrew Higgins) Surveying the wreckage of a neighbor’s bungalow hit by a Palestinian rocket, retired Israeli official Avner Cohen traces the missile’s trajectory back to an “enormous, stupid mistake” made 30 years ago.

“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” says Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who worked in Gaza for more than two decades. Responsible for religious affairs in the region until 1994, Mr. Cohen watched the Islamist movement take shape, muscle aside secular Palestinian rivals and then morph into what is today Hamas, a militant group that is sworn to Israel’s destruction.

(Read entire article here…)

My Commentary: Diocletian’s “Problem, Reaction, Solution” is the Hegelian Dialectic of choice for expanding empires…

Israel Helped Spawn a Larger, More Violent Hamas in Order to Counter Arafat’s PLO

I originally posted the following information and statement onto my Facebook wall…

Blowback: Did Israel Help To Create Hamas?

Here’s a very informative article on the topic:

How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123275572295011847.html

Well… I guess we should just be glad that the Israeli government didn’t fund, train and arm Hamas, the way the America government did with the Mujahideen, the MAK, and Al Qaeda:

OPERATION CYCLONE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

Bin Laden Comes Home to Roost:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3340101/
(note that this article is from 1998! All of the politics and emotions of 9/11 are nonexistent)

Terror ‘Blowback’ Burns CIA:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/terror-blowback-burns-cia-1182087.html
(note that this article, too, is from 1998)

Bin Laden, Taliban Created During Cold War Era:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0110/S00004.htm
(note that this article is from Oct. 2001, right after 9/11)