Saying Israeli intelligence created Hamas is incorrect

Editor,

It is to his credit that columnist Richard Berthold has become a defender of freedom of expression, particularly his own. Unfortunately, he does not believe that there is a need for expressed facts to be true.

He was correct to state that Hamas was not created by Iran, but to write it was by Israeli intelligence can only resemble the concept of the big lie - saying something so preposterous one must assume it is true.

Hamas was created by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin of the Moslem Brotherhood in 1987. Please refer to the obituary published in The Guardian on March 23, 2004.

Herbert Friedman

UNM student