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There is a widespread claim that “Israel has helped establish Hamas”
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It was repeated by an Israeli journalist on Bret Weinstein’s Dark Horse podcast.
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She was repeating a rumor.
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US Intelligence is behind that rumor.
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US Intelligence is conducting anti-Israeli psychological warfare.
The other day, Bret Weinstein said the following:
Brett Weinstein: … Because we [the little people] are left only with the evidence we can see and the ability to extrapolate, I think we have to [extrapolate]. And we are bound to get some stuff wrong. And what we have to do is just commit—as we discover that we have got something wrong—to fix it.
That’s a statement I can get completely behind. It’s the kind of thing that Bret says that makes me love him. And I do love him: I follow him faithfully, listen to all his podcasts, agree with every moral position he has ever defended, consider him indispensable to the fight for the West.
But…
Immediately after what I quoted above, most ironically, Bret’s guest made a claim that needs fixing, so I am going to invoke the principle that Bret defended, and I am sure that he will make the needed correction if I have made a proper presentation.
Here’s what happened next:
Brett Weinstein: But I want to go back to something you said at the beginning which struck me as important and potentially relevant. You said that Hamas was in some way a creation of Israel or words to that effect. I don’t want to put words in your mouth…