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Yep. This is one of the biggest reasons everyone is furious at Benjamin Netnyahu. For 30 years he supported and used the Hamas as a cudgel against the PLO and a
by invalidname 3y ago
Yep. This is one of the biggest reasons everyone is furious at Benjamin Netnyahu. For 30 years he supported and used the Hamas as a cudgel against the PLO and as a threat against the moderates. The amount of stupidity around this is mind boggling.
- ngcazz 3y agoLike António Guterres strongly implied, the cycle of violence has been amplified by the Israeli government.
- invalidname 3y agoYes, but I think it's important to separate Benjamin Netnyahu as he went to the extreme during a period of time where we knew the Hamas is "serious". Previously Israel supported the Muslim Brotherhood, that was dumb. But they wanted Jihad "in the future". Also the PLO was still a terrorist organization back then. Netnyahu promoted the Hamas when the PLO abandoned terrorism and when the Hamas was known for extremely violent mass murder (exploding busses etc.). He's a special kind of idiot a*hole.
- ngcazz 3y ago100%, but it is also politically expedient to keep Hamas around as that yields (well, used to anyway) the usual excuse for dehumanizing Palestinians..
- invalidname 3y agoI'm saying that since the 90s this was almost entirely due to one guy. Other leaders from his party (e.g. Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert, etc.) didn't take the same approach.