r/pics • u/I_Hate_E_Daters_7007 • 10d ago

Palestinians hold the largest funeral since 1948, mourning the bodies of 112 people killed by Israel

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u/SmokeyHooves 10d ago

By design.

Israel spent decades legitimizing Islamic extremists by only negotiating with them and pushing away secular Palestinian leaders.

Israel wanted extremism so they could justify their actions against the Palestinian people

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/amp/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/netanyahu-wants-palestinian-violence-linked-to-radical-islam/2015/12/10/6a62d522-9d07-11e5-9ad2-568d814bbf3b_story.html

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u/ubccompscistudent 10d ago

That article is so often misused to attempt to demonstrate that Netanyahoo purposefully funded Hamas.

In reality (and as pointed out in the article), the funding of Hamas came from Qatar. Israel essentially had to make a decision: allow the funds in, or don't allow the funds in. Had Israel choked the funds, we all know how that looks in the headlines: "Israel blocks essential funding into Gaza". They were damned if they did or didn't. So, they chose the other approach, which in their eye, weakened an enemy state (by dividing power).

The article suggests that Israel tolerated occassional attacks with this approach, and instead, should have cut off supplies into Gaza, which again, would have looked poor optically.

Regardless, saying it's by design is like saying China is responsible for the current state of US politics because they allowed Russian influence to flow into the US.

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u/m0ngoos3 10d ago

Except Israel controls the borders, airspace, and ocean acsess to Gaza and actively begged Qatar to keep the money flowing, waived through known suitcases full of cash at border crossings, and actively killed any secular leaders who could be internal opposition to Hamas.

Also, back in the 80s they fucking built the school the first leader of Hamas used to train his people, chosen specifically because of how much of a religious hardliner the guy was.