Flashback:
– Benjamin Netanyahu in 2019: Israel Must ‘Support Bolstering Hamas and Transferring Money to Hamas’
– (2009): Ron Paul: Israel Created Hamas (Video)
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– Israel Fostered The Rise Of Hamas To Preclude A Two-State Solution:
https://archive.is/Sa5n4
In Wednesday’s ZeroHedge debate on Israel, Iran and Palestine, Dave Smith emphasized a little-known fact about the Gaza conflict — that Israel “cynically, intentionally funded and propped up” Hamas “so they wouldn’t face external pressure to give the Palestinians their freedom.” Via Brian McGlinchey at Stark Realities, here’s a deeper look at the history Smith was referring to.
In the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by the Palestinian group Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared, “The forces of civilization must support Israel in defeating Hamas…In fighting Hamas, Israel is not only fighting for its own people, it is fighting for every country that stands against barbarism.”
Those sentiments are quite different from ones Netanyahu privately shared in 2019.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told Likud Party legislators, according to Haaretz, Israel’s longest-running newspaper. Doing so would help prevent the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA) from ruling Gaza and giving Palestinians a relatively moderate, unified voice at the negotiating table. “This is part of our strategy — to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
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