• WamGams@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    If it is a fact that Israel is paying for Hamas and Iran and Qatar aren’t, it will be very easy for you to prove that.

    I will wait.

    • SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/netanyahu-israel-gaza-hamas-1.7010035

      Oh nooo, did someone open their fucking mouth about shit they don’t know about and are about to get dunked on?

      “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Israel’s regular allowing of Qatari funds to be transferred into Gaza, saying it is part of a broader strategy to keep Hamas and the Palestinian Authority separate, a source in Monday’s Likud faction meeting said,” the Post reported.

      Netanyahu’s current finance minister, West Bank settler Belazel Smotrich, explained the approach to Israel’s Knesset channel in 2015: “Hamas is an asset, and (Palestinian Authority leader) Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) is a burden.”

      “Both Egypt and Qatar are angry with Hamas and planned to cut ties with them. Suddenly Netanyahu appears as the defender of Hamas,” the right-wing leader complained.

      A year later, Netanyahu was further embarrassed when photos of suitcases full of cash going to Hamas became public. Liberman finally resigned in protest over Netanyahu’s Hamas policy which, he said, marked “the first time Israel is funding terrorism against itself.”

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        6 months ago

        Where specifically in the article does it say that Israel is fully funding Hamas and Qatar and Iran aren’t?

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      6 months ago

      that was really trivially easy

      Israel has allowed suitcases holding millions in Qatari cash to enter Gaza through its crossings since 2018

      I’m sure bibi did that out of the spirit of charity.

      Look, as far as I can tell, Israel created a monster, then lost control of the monster. The monster has since found other sources of support. In trying to perform ethnic cleansing and forced land transfers over the last 80ish years, they have also been monstrous. There is wicked evil on both sides of this pointless genocidal war. Stop plugging your ears to the parts that make the people you happen to already agree with look bad.