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Protests like these convinced Hamas that suicide bombing worked.
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| By israelinsider staff September 10, 2004 |
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A just released book by two respected journalists contains a damning indictment of the Israeli left wing, and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's "disengagement plan," for encouraging Palestinian terrorists to pursue their bombing campaign.
The book, The Seventh War -- written by journalists Avi Yissocharov from the state-run Voice of Israel radio and Amos Harel from the left-leaning Haaretz daily -- is being haled as the most comprehensively researched study of the four years of violence which began in September 2000. It includes extensive interviews with Hamas leadership in Gaza and Israeli prisons by the two journalists.
Yissocharov told Channel One's New Evening program Thursday afternoon that Hamas leaders told him repeatedly that the Israeli left-wing encouraged them to continue to carry out their terror attacks.
Yissocharov summarized the general consensus among Hamas leadership he had interviewed: "The Israeli left-wing and your 'peace-camp' are what ultimately encouraged us to continue to carry out suicide bombings. We tried, through our attacks, to create fragmentation and dissention within Israeli society, and the left-wing encouraged us in that regard. When we heard about the 'Pilots' Letter' and the elite soldiers refusing to serve [in Judea, Samaria and Gaza], it strengthened our confidence in the effectiveness of the suicide bomber."
Yissocharov also said that the Hamas leaders saw "the disengagement from Gaza is proof of our victory. The fact that Sharon is willing to withdraw unconditionally is basically equivalent to raising a white flag and retreating. Only by force are we able to teach the other side what to do."
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