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with Gaza and the West Bank, with the end-game goal of taking it ALL. Create a rabid junkyard dog, allow it to be funded with well over 2 billion dollars in Qatari cash, (plus dog only knows how much additional funding from Iran, Turkey, etc), the odds are high that dog of hate bites its erstwhile Israeli handler.
For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces
The premier’s policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
For years, the various governments led by Benjamin Netanyahu took an approach that divided power between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank — bringing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to his knees while making moves that propped up the Hamas terror group. The idea was to prevent Abbas — or anyone else in the Palestinian Authority’s West Bank government — from advancing toward the establishment of a Palestinian state. Thus, amid this bid to impair Abbas, Hamas was upgraded from a mere terror group to an organization with which Israel held indirect negotiations via Egypt, and one that was allowed to receive infusions of cash from abroad.
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Most of the time, Israeli policy was to treat the Palestinian Authority as a burden and Hamas as an asset. Far-right MK Bezalel Smotrich, now the finance minister in the hardline government and leader of the Religious Zionism party, said so himself in 2015. According to various reports, Netanyahu made a similar point at a Likud faction meeting in early 2019, when he was quoted as saying that those who oppose a Palestinian state should support the transfer of funds to Gaza, because maintaining the separation between the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza would prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.
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Netanyahu had the vast bulk of the Israeli military focused on the West Bank, to defend the massive amount of illegal settlements and to enable more and more of them to be erected.
Because of that, Bibi and his ultra RW base allowed the terrorist beast (that they had helped to grow, allowed to be funded, and allowed to fester in Gaza) to break out of its cage and bite them in their exposed arse.
Multiple brave Israelis, many of them women, tasked with watching Gaza tried to warn Bibi and his ultra RWers, and they were ignored, because that did not fit the ultra RW Eretz Yisrael template of elevating the illegal ethnic cleansing land grabs in the West Bank above all else.
They were Israel's 'eyes on the border' - but their Hamas warnings went unheard
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67958260
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