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Hard line right wing Israelis started funding Hamas because towards the end of the leadership of Arafat, Palestine was much more willing to adopt a two state so
by FireBeyond 3y ago
Hard line right wing Israelis started funding Hamas because towards the end of the leadership of Arafat, Palestine was much more willing to adopt a two state solution, and it would have been awkward for Israel to be asked “if these ‘terrorists’ are willing to compromise, why aren’t you?”
So they helped Hamas rise.
People like to point to “from the river (Jordan) to the (Red) sea” as “evidence” that Palestinians hate the Jewish people, but that ignores that that phrase was literally the election campaign for Likud (Netanyahu) in the 1970s and formed the back bone of the Israeli rights policy to this day.
Also, Hamas is less than 40,000 people in a country of 3 million, so generalizations aren’t helpful.
- aprilthird2021 3y agoPeople also like to forget that Likud was itself born from a terrorist organization, Irgun, whose leader, a proscribed terrorist by several Western countries, was elected Prime Minister of Israel.
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoThe Sons of Liberty were terrorists too. ;p The important thing to me is those guys don't lead to Islamic theocracies.
- cess11 3y agoJewish theocracy with nukes is fine, but islamic theocracy without nukes is not?
- red-iron-pine 3y agoIran probably has nukes, or has the ability to get there.
- cess11 3y agoThe ability to get there is quite common. Not sure how that's relevant?