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Very real possibility this is the end of Web Summit, which is crazy when you consider the size and significance of the event vs the incident which triggered the

Very real possibility this is the end of Web Summit, which is crazy when you consider the size and significance of the event vs the incident which triggered the outcry. Next event after Lisbon? Doha 2024. Qatar of course the main financial backers of Hamas (not Iran, contrary to MSM conflation)

orwin 3y ago
The 30 millions per month 'from' Qatar is likely given by Netanyahu's government [0], or at least exchanged against contracts and political clout from Netanyahu (according to a French middle-east 'expert'). Iran is linked to Hamas post irak war, when sunni and chia fundamentalists decided they were circumstancial allies, and have ideological links. Ideologically the Fatah is way closer to the west. The recent expropriations in east Jerusalem (including the catholic hospital/orphanage my father was born in) were a signal Netanyahu's government gave that it would rather deal with Hamas than Fatah. It was a failure in leadership and humanity that coalesced into this very situation (not blaming the numerous victims here, who asked nothing: they're like people downstream a dam failure: their government failed them.) [0] https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2020-02-24/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-israel-mossad-chief-doha-qatar-continue-hamas-gaza-money-transfer/0000017f-ded8-d856-a37f-ffd88a960000 https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2020-02-24/ty-artic...
- dragonwriter 3y ago
  > Ideologically the Fatah is way closer to the west. That's why Israel early on actively nurtured the Islamist network that became Hamas in Gaza (I mean, besides “division among Palestinians is good”, which itself is a major factor); they wanted a face for their opposition that was less sympathetic to the West. Netanyahu's governments active undermining of the Fatah-led PLO, enabling of Hamas, and sabotaging of plans to hold new Palestinian elections all feeds into that desire to avoid having an opposition that looks democratic and is otherwise sympathetic to the West, to maintain Western support, or at least acquiescence, for the necessity of Israel not moving toward peace.

orwin 3y ago

The 30 millions per month 'from' Qatar is likely given by Netanyahu's government [0], or at least exchanged against contracts and political clout from Netanyahu (according to a French middle-east 'expert'). Iran is linked to Hamas post irak war, when sunni and chia fundamentalists decided they were circumstancial allies, and have ideological links. Ideologically the Fatah is way closer to the west. The recent expropriations in east Jerusalem (including the catholic hospital/orphanage my father was born in) were a signal Netanyahu's government gave that it would rather deal with Hamas than Fatah. It was a failure in leadership and humanity that coalesced into this very situation (not blaming the numerous victims here, who asked nothing: they're like people downstream a dam failure: their government failed them.) [0] https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2020-02-24/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-israel-mossad-chief-doha-qatar-continue-hamas-gaza-money-transfer/0000017f-ded8-d856-a37f-ffd88a960000 https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2020-02-24/ty-artic...

dragonwriter 3y ago
> Ideologically the Fatah is way closer to the west. That's why Israel early on actively nurtured the Islamist network that became Hamas in Gaza (I mean, besides “division among Palestinians is good”, which itself is a major factor); they wanted a face for their opposition that was less sympathetic to the West. Netanyahu's governments active undermining of the Fatah-led PLO, enabling of Hamas, and sabotaging of plans to hold new Palestinian elections all feeds into that desire to avoid having an opposition that looks democratic and is otherwise sympathetic to the West, to maintain Western support, or at least acquiescence, for the necessity of Israel not moving toward peace.