AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

34. Rodney Brookes (Press 02/03) is apparently unaware or conveniently forgets the fact that the Israeli Government actively fostered the Islamisation of the Palestinian opposition by supporting Hamas in the late seventies as part of a plan to undermine the secular PLO of Yasser Arafat. This Israeli support for the Islamists is of course a very similar ploy as the U.S. support for Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban when it suited their strategies against secular Afghan and Russian communists during the eighties. Sometimes "terrorists' are our friends, sometimes our enemies.
Letter rejected.