The Fanonite

In his zeal to prove his hardline-Zionist credentials Israel’s man in the French foreign ministry, Bernard Kouchner, is making claims that even the Israeli intelligence disputes. “Palestinian militant group Hamas has contacts with Al-Qaida”, he tells Ha’aretz, “adding that this was not the result of Western pressure to isolate the movement”.

“I think Hamas did not wait for this extreme situation - the current terrible situation in Gaza - to have contacts with Al-Qaida. And it would perhaps be too simple to think that we, the international community, are responsible,” Kouchner said.

Kouchner, who was speaking at a news conference, did not elaborate.

He did not of course, because he can not. Incidentally, the only two parties making this charge are Israel’s foreign supporters, and its quislings in Abbas’s Vichy government.

Also check out Alistair’s Crooke’s excellent commentary on the subject.