WSJ scoops the Times: Hamas is ‘Israel’s creation’

My impatience with Ethan Bronner's handwringing is contained in this superb Wall Street Journal historical investigation of how Israel helped spawn Hamas. Hamas is "Israel's creation," a former Israeli official laments. The WSJ is trying to expand American knowledge of the other side of the story through a factual exploration of the Israeli program for Palestinian statelessness. I bet that in his heart of hearts Bronner is a liberalish two-state Jew who knows that the hour is growing late. He should stop agonizing and take his stand, by educating American Jews about the injustices experienced by a stateless people for 60 years. Only by changing American Jewish opinion, and Bronner has that power, will the U.S. and this region move forward.                         (Phil Weiss)