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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
OK, well if you agree that they have specifically enabled and encouraged funding Hamas, the terrorist organization, with the express purpose of strengthening them to avoid a Palestinian state, then what are you arguing?
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No. I do not. They went out of their way to divert funds away from Hamas and try to control them. You either cut off funding for Hamas or allow it and try and control it. Netanyahu is being criticized for the later choice.
According to people in here, it's lack of quality of life that creates terrorism, not funding. So which is it?
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
We’re not talking about just allowing aid. We’re talking about enabling Hamas to do what Hamas does, which is engaging in terrorism, which Israeli officials have encouraged, for their own gain. Why pretend it’s all some grand humanitarian play?
Let’s just call it what it is, right? We know what his intent is. Why are people pretending he’s a peacemaker who wants the Palestinians to have their own state if only they would get out of their own way?
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No one has ever said Netanyahu is a peace maker. He's a military orientated former soldier. He's also a long-serving politician, who stays in power by courting the right wing. When the US puts pressure on him to make the lives of Gazans better, he is tasked with selling those concessions to right win members of his government.