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Originally Posted by Ike Bana
It's the same old same old blame Islamofascist terrorism on the Jews...
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Whether you like it or not that Bibi has been complicit in propping up Hamas in order to quash support for a two-state solution, it's undeniably true. Indeed,
as many as 80% of Israelis believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must take responsibility for the security failures exposed by the devastating Oct. 7 assault on Israeli by Hamas.
Your knee jerk defense of all things Israel are rooted in your personal biases and family experience, not reality nor knowledge of facts on the ground. To wit:
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.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-ye...-in-our-faces/
Much ink has been spilled describing the longtime relationship – rather, alliance – between Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas. And still, the very fact that there has been close cooperation between the Israeli prime minister (with the support of many on the right) and the fundamentalist organization seemingly evaporated from most of the current analyses.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...f-57ff1be90000
Blindness to the danger from Gaza has a longer history, though, and is rooted in a strategic choice that has guided Mr. Netanyahu since his return to power in 2009.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/o...rael-gaza.html
During his earlier term as Prime Minister, Netanyahu followed a consistent policy of allowing Hamas to flourish, and consequently to develop from a relatively weak terrorist organization to a force capable of killing more than 1200 Israelis in a single day.
https://www.politybooks.com/blog-det...anyahus-design