We are responsible for Hamas. Yes, it's something that sprung up from the tragedy of the Palestinian people. When I was in the Negev at the kibbutz, we were talking about how this happened. In 1946, there were only 500 Jews in the Negev Desert, 500. In October of 1946, They carried out what was called the 11 Points Operation, where teams of Israeli soldiers would seize a hilltop, take control of it, then bring in pre-fabricated buildings to create this kibbutz and they'd be right next to these Arab villages. In many of these places, overnight an Israeli settlement shows up and they'd bring in people and they're just quadrupling, tripling the Jewish population in the negative, but they were next to these Arab villages. These Arab villages on this one hillside, the Israelis that took it over didn't have any water. So they are there on top of the hill, they got no water, the Arabs brought water to them, and said, "Here. Here's water. Welcome, our neighbors." Some of them weren't happy about this, but we recognized the inevitability of this. We welcome you. And then as 1946 turned into 1948, it became inevitable that Israel was going to take the negative. And so these Arabs all went to their Israeli Neighbors and said, "Hey, we're living in peace, so when this happens, please, let us stay here in our homes." And the Israelis are all like, "Yeah, yeah yeah." Then, boom! And they wiped them all out, wiped them all out. They went into the villages of the villagers who gave them water and they killed the men. They drove the men into a ravine and shot them. They went house by house by house shooting the men in there. If this sounds a lot like what happened on Saturday, it is exactly what happened on Saturday. But this time, it's Israelis kicking down the door, shooting the men, evicting hundreds of thousands of these people in what they call the nakba, "the catastrophe." They put the women and children and the surviving men on trucks and shipped them to Gaza. And then around Gaza, they built a series of kibbutzes to hold them in, to keep them prisoner there. So they created this open air concentration camp. And the kibbutzes are there to keep the Arabs in. That's it. That's what happened.
Now they had a problem here. . . . If you study Israeli history, and I have, like I said I lived there, I worked with them, and my host was historically minded. There's a speech. In America, we have "The Gettysburg Address," Abraham Lincoln's great address given in Gettysburg after the battle and signing one of the great statements of who we are as a people. The Israelis have a similar speech, but it's a eulogy read by Moshi Dayan in 1956 for a guy named Roy Rutenberg. Roy Rutenberg was a soldier of the kibbutz. He was in one of the kibbutzes that's now at the frontline of where some horrible things happened on Saturday and Sunday. But he was ambushed by Arabs from Gaza and killed, and there was a lot of anger, and so Moshi Dayan came and gave a speech. And in the speech he says, "Don't blame the Gazans because we live here on the land that we stole from their families. We live on this land, and they stare at us with eyes of hatred, and we ignore them and we pretend they don't exist, we treat them as animals so don't blame them for coming at us because this is what we did." And then he goes on to say, ". . . but what we did, we had to do, we had to do, and we must keep the sword in our hand to keep these people away. That's the reality. Israel created the problem of Gaza, created the problem of the Palestinian of the West Bank. Then what happens in the 1980s, when Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, PLO, become very powerful and influential, the Israelis say, "How do we break them up within Gaza?" because it's very close to Egypt. And Egypt had a movement called the Muslim Brotherhood, a very radical, violence oriented group. And the Egyptians suppressed them, killed a lot of guys, arrested a lot of guys. The #2 man, al-Zawahiri and Al Qaeda was a Muslim Brotherhood dude from Egypt. But many of the Muslim Brotherhood gravitated to Gaza where they were hiding out from the Egyptians. What the Israelis did is said, "hey why don't we empower the Muslim Brotherhood." Why don't we help turn them into a movement that can offset Yasser Arafat's PLO? So in the 1980s, Israel made Hamas. Israel made Hamas. Now you already have the elements there but Israel breathed life into them. Israel created Hamas. In 2006, Israel helped Hamas move from being a terrorist organization that was blowing up buses when I was in Israel. Israel made the organization that blew up a restaurant that I used to eat at when I was in Israel. Israel made this organization and now they're at war with this organization. And then in 2006, they did something even more unbelievable: they helped turn Hamas into a political movement, not just a terrorist movement but to mainstream them, to legitimize them, to make them a movement capable of governing Gaza. Because the purpose was to strip Gaza away from the West Bank, from Fatah, from the PLO and they succeeded. And now we ask what happened in this most recent go-round. Israel has been struggling to deal with Hamas ever since. And the current feeling is that they have succeeded in creating the conditions where Hamas will stop being a terrorist organization, whose charter by the way used to read "the destruction of Israel was their mission." They've modified it with words that some people say, "Oh see, they're not calling for the destruction of Israel." They really are. They just changed the words. That happened in 2006. So the settlements could be withdrawn in 2005 to become a purely Palestinian land, but it's a concentration camp run by the Israelis, everything is run by the Israelis. But they make Hamas> Now what they said this time around was we, . . . because everybody's calling this an intelligence failure. This is the biggest intelligence failure ever; well, it is but it's also a byproduct of something that's been biting the Israelis in the butt for decades, called the "Conception"
