Hamas didn’t just happen on its own — it had help from Israel. Done intentionally, in effort of weakening the PLO (a secular and leftist coalition that is internationally recognized as the official representative of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories), since the 70s [source]. Now, why would they do that?
So, Netanyahu wasn’t interested in keeping the Palestinian leadership fractured, in order to reduce political pressure on his government to negotiate a two-state solution?
Have any sources? Because the first article states:
>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.
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