Moshav Tekuma, Israel

Surveying the wreckage of a neighbor's bungalow hit by a Palestinian rocket, retired Israeli official Avner Cohen traces the missile's trajectory back to an "enormous, stupid mistake" made 30 years ago.

"Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation," says Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who worked in Gaza for more than two decades. Responsible for religious affairs in the region until 1994, Mr. Cohen watched the Islamist movement take shape, muscle aside secular Palestinian rivals and then morph into what is today Hamas, a militant group that is sworn to Israel's destruction.

Instead of trying to curb Gaza's Islamists from the outset, says Mr. Cohen, Israel for years tolerated and, in some cases, encouraged them as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its dominant faction, Yasser Arafat's Fatah. Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, even as he was laying the foundations for what would become Hamas. Sheikh Yassin continues to inspire militants today; during the recent war in Gaza, Hamas fighters confronted Israeli troops with "Yassins," primitive rocket-propelled grenades named in honor of the cleric.

seriously though..i mean people with somewhat of a brain would know of course Hamas is going to support a mosque in an area where a muslim extremist group destroyed something on american soil,cause we are allies with a country they hate..Israel

That is a part of it...but there is much more.

And the first sermon to be taught in the new Mosque by the man who helped get it there...

Why we need Sharia law in America...and later why Hamas is not a terroist but Islamic freedom fighters.


Next week...Why America deserved 9/11 and later how to make bombs using household items.

I'm sure since this man believes in Sharia law the women will be head to toe in a black Burqa coming into and leaving this mosque.

I can't think of anything more insulting to those who died.

in reality israeli radicals have kept their own prime ministers from trying a diplomatic reasoning with the palestine people.....just ask Rabin oh wait nevermind he's dead too

Israel radicals???Never heard that term before.

really how many israeli prime ministers have been shot because of them...uh i'm not posting links but just type...israeli prime ministers assassinated and read,it explains by who

That would be Muslim assasins.

so Rabin wasn't killed by an orthodox jew?

hell if ya wanna get technical a jew really started WWI....lol really no ****

No Hitler's power trip did.