(May 2, 2024 at 5:46 am)NeverEndingIt Wrote:(May 2, 2024 at 2:10 am)Belacqua Wrote: It's possible that Netanyahu now regrets that he used to support and fund Hamas.
Although given his recent statements, he may be glad that he helped create an enemy that gives him an excuse to kill many many non-Hamas people.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/...ed-policy/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-...our-faces/
In regards of Hamas, I don't think they were created by Netanyahu; but by the religious Muslims in Gaza after "Fatah" went soft and agreed to work for Israel in the West Bank.
Obviously Netanyahu's intel and the Mossad as a whole was a failure after the October 7 attack by Hamas.
The Gaza slaughter now is just a reaction of anger and frustration by Netanyahu and the CIA for not seeing October 7 coming.
Yes, I agree it would be too simple to say that Netanyahu "created" Hamas. He and his party gave it support, and attempted to use it as a divide-and-conquer strategy, but its birth had various causes. Anyway, that's what I read in the two sources I cite, and in many others.
Both Israel and the US thought it would be a good idea to support Islamist militants to weaken their enemies, and both times it turned out badly.
Very hard to say about October 7.... It appears there was a lot of misinformation in the earliest reports -- as is not unusual in events of this kind. It would be easy to be cynical and imagine that Netanyahu's party saw it coming and decided to let it happen, to justify doing what they wanted to do anyway. We can't know for sure.
One thing that's always frustrating: attacks from the Palestinian side (whether by Hamas or simply spontaneous individual outbursts) are always presented in the US media as unprovoked examples of Muslim evil. Yet of course from the Palestinian side, each is seen as reprisal for some Israeli action -- often a very specific bit of violence. Israelis make much of the hostages held by Hamas, for example, without mentioning the thousands of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons without trial. I don't think these people can even be called hostages, since Israel makes no demands for their release -- they are just held without explanation or legal recourse.
