"The Owl of Minerva Has Yet to Take Flight" - Mujamma Haraket on Tufan Al Aqsa 3 Years Later

Oh, thank you.

Thank you.

You touched on this a little bit earlier, but one of the less prominent but still occasional narratives that we hear is that Hamas, or rather, as you pointed out in our exchange, its organizational predecessor was supported by the Zionist entity and related to this idea that We get some of the conspiratorial narratives that you referenced earlier on, these ideas that Israel was fully aware of the operation that was going to take place.

They held back or allowed it to happen and be a bigger operation.

allowed their own soldiers to get killed and so on and so forth.

Right.

To to create this this sympathy.

Right.

So that as they engaged in the genocide that has unfolded since then, that, you know, basically no one would would stop them.

And so this was sort of it's a plan.

And I think I do have to say just my own opinion.

I think part of what animates this is that.

People seeing what just feels like such evil, right, coming through their phones in terms of how the Zionists have responded and this genocide that they've enacted, I think, leads people to also thinking, right, that they are capable of anything, right, and including violence.

sort of plotting for their own, you know, the killing of their own people or something like that to give them an excuse for something like this.

But nonetheless, I want you to address some of these narratives because I remember even early on, especially, I feel like this was more prominent closer to October 7th.

But, you know, in the whole condemnation game that people do around Hamas, right, that you can't speak about them unless you condemn them in Western media and so on and so forth, that one of the excuses that I would see from some Western leftists was, well, you know, Hamas is actually funded by Israel, right? So they're kind of, you know, they're equally worth it.

condemning or so on and so forth.

And so I know this is a claim that you have confronted before you have written about and talked about.

And so if you could just share some of what's wrong with this thinking or what this misunderstands.

Yes.

Thank you.

So I would kindly advise readers who wish to glean the full details of these narratives and their arid histories to consult the electronic intifada article I authored titled Debunking the Lie that, quote, Israel Created Hamas.

It was published on April 16, 2026, and also a subsect article I have written titled Revisiting the Islamic Movement Fatah 1983 Clash at the Islamic University of Gaza.

and Commander Maser Hamdiya, an analysis of the history of Fatah, Hamas, enmity, and amity.

But the reason I list the latter articles is because the very first instantiation of this narrative is in 1983.